Understanding Aerodynamics: Arguing from the Real Physics

Series Preface

The field of aerospace is wide ranging and multi-disciplinary, covering a large variety of products, disciplines and domains, not merely in engineering but in many related supporting activities. These combine to enable the aerospace industry to produce exciting and technologically advanced vehicles. The wealth of knowledge and experience that has been gained by expert practitioners in the various aerospace fields needs to be passed onto others working in the industry, including those just entering from University.

The Aerospace Series aims to be a practical and topical series of books aimed at engineering professionals, operators, users and allied professions such as commercial and legal executives in the aerospace industry, and also engineers in academia. The range of topics is intended to be wide ranging, covering design and development, manufacture, operation and support of aircraft as well as topics such as infrastructure operations and developments in research and technology. The intention is to provide a source of relevant information that will be of interest and benefit to all those people working in aerospace.

Aerodynamics is the fundamental enabling science that underpins the world-wide aerospace industry – without the ability to generate lift from airflow passing over wings, helicopter rotors and other lifting surfaces, it would not be possible to fly heavier-than-air vehicles as efficiently as is taken for granted nowadays. Much of the development of today's ...