Handbook of Compressible Aerodynamics

Table of Contents

List of Symbols

Acknowledgment

General Introduction

Chapter 1. Aerodynamics: Aims, Areas of Application and Current Issues

Chapter 2. Aerodynamic Forces: Basic Definitions

2.1. Main aerodynamic coefficients

2.2. The lift-over-drag ratio and its practical implications

2.3. Curves of lift, drag, and polar

2.4. Other coefficients characterizing the effects of a fluid on a body

2.4.1. Effect of pressure

2.4.2. The effect of skin friction

2.4.3. Heat flux and heating

2.5. Evaluation of the action exerted by a fluid on a body

2.5.1. General relations

2.5.2. Lift and drag: drag decomposition

2.5.3. Distribution of pressure on an airfoil and lift

2.5.4. Aerodynamic stall of an airfoil

2.5.5. Return to the aerodynamic moment: center of pressure

2.6. The complete aircraft case: aerodynamic torsor

Chapter 3. Review of Thermodynamics

3.1. Macroscopic systems, basic state variables, and absolute temperature

3.2. Energy exchanges

3.3. Postulates of thermodynamics

3.3.1. Postulate of the total energy or first law of thermodynamics.

3.3.2. Internal energy

3.3.3. Enthalpy

3.3.4. Postulate on entropy and the second law of thermodynamics

3.4. Expression of the entropy

3.5. Equation of state and the perfect gas model

3.6. Isentropic relations for a calorically perfect gas

3.7. Comments on the thermodynamics of studied gases

3.7.1. Introductory remarks

3.7.2. Variation of the specific heats of a thermally perfect gas.

3.7.3. Dissociation phenomena

3.7.4. Mollier diagram

3.7.5. Differential ...