April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
776 pages
25h 50m
English
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Preface
Advanced UAV Aerodynamics, Flight Stability and Control: Novel Concepts, Theory and Applications has been written for university students and lecturers, aerodynamics researchers, aerospace engineers, and aircraft designers and manufacturers. Readers will need to have foundational knowledge of aerodynamics and principles of flight stability and control. Nonetheless, Chapter 1 provides an introduction to Aerodynamics and Flight Stability for the benefit of readers who do not have a conventional engineering background. The technical level of the book is ‘advanced’, and includes many equations and data. However, descriptive narratives are also used to elucidate concepts in language that is not excessively technical. Each Chapter is illustrated using diagrams and/or photos in colour.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses novel concepts in unmanned aircraft aerodynamics and contains chapters on fixed‐wing (airplanes), rotary wing (helicopter), and hybrid aircraft. Part II presents novel concepts in unmanned aircraft flight stability and control and includes chapters on fixed‐wing (airplanes) and quad‐rotor aircraft. The reader will find in this textbook very sophisticated design concepts for unmanned aerospace vehicles and analyses of the aerodynamic environment, including aerodynamics of re‐entry vehicles, aeroservoelastic analysis of very flexible aircraft, wind tunnel testing, ground‐effect aerodynamics, dynamics modelling and system identification of helicopters, ...
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