Understanding Aerodynamics: Arguing from the Real Physics

Index

Acceleration, convective, 17 (2nd term in Eqn 3.2.1), 39, 103

Ackeret propulsion, 225–6, 240–1

Actuator-disc theory, 227–9, 239, 240, 480, 515

Adiabatic wall, 120–1, 158, 159–62

Advance ratio, 229–30, 235–8

Adverse pressure gradient:

effect on transition, 132, 135, 341

effect on velocity profile, 84, 104, 138–9, 140–2, 149, 457–64

role in separation, 84–5, 87, 93–5, 150, 276–9, 323–7, 459–60

Aileron, 297

Airfoil, 307

design, 311, 338, 348, 352, 355

drag, 200, 316–19, 338

in ground effect, 350–2

laminar-flow, 338–41

linear theory, 307–15

low-Reynolds-number, 341

maximum lift, 319–29

shape function, 355–7

slotted, 329–35

stall, 296–7, 319–29

supercritical, 344

transonic, 342–50

Angle of attack, 287, 296–7, 306–7, 309–10

Aspect ratio, 386, 391, 395

Attachment, flow, 80–2, 124–5, 169–74, 275–80, 448–52

Attachment line, 105–6, 125–8, 171–4, 448–52, 465–8

Axisymmetric boundary layer, 123–5, 126

Axisymmetric flow, 123–5, 199–202, 227

Base drag, 210–212

Hoerner's jet pump, 211–12, 489

Basic and additional spanloads, 376–9

Bernoulli equation, 58–60, 168,

Bernoulli lift, 270–5, 281–2, 298–9

Biot-Savart law, 31–3, 389, 392–3, 413, 480, 487

Biplane drag, 409

Blade-element theory, 234–39

Blowing for separation prevention, 155–7

Body forces, 32, 35, 37, 41, 47, 56, 58

Boltzmann equations, 13

Bound vorticity, 265–9, 305, 363–4, 380–2, 429–31

Boundary conditions, 15

boundary-layer, 92–3, 103, 109, 110–13

farfield, 513–14

flow tangency (no-through-flow), 111–12, 308, 382, 401, 429

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