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This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro air vehicles (MAVs), which present some of the richest problems intersecting science and engineering. The agility and spectacular flight performance of natural flyers, thanks to their flexible, deformable wing structures, as well as to outstanding wing, tail and body coordination, is particularly significant. To design and build MAVs with performance comparable to natural flyers, it is essential that natural flyers' combined flexible structural dynamics and aerodynamics are adequately understood. The primary focus of this book is to address the recent developments in flapping wing aerodynamics. This book extends the work presented in Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers (Shyy et al. 2008).

This is the first book to systematically describe different flow control techniques, with each chapter discussing a particular technique, its main characteristics, applications, and control mechanism. The history and development of flow control are also discussed, offering students, researchers and engineers a solid background in the topic.

This long-awaited, physics-first and design-oriented text describes and explains the underlying flow and heat transfer theory of secondary air systems while providing the corresponding mathematical modeling techniques of various components.

This text provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft. It covers basic topics of aerodynamic analysis, helicopter performance and design, and advanced topics, including airfoil flows and unsteady aerodynamics. Every chapter includes numerous illustrations, a bibliography, and homework problems.

This current, comprehensive book provides an updated treatment of molecular gas dynamics topics for aerospace engineers, and is aimed at graduate students, engineers, and scientists. It features an explanation of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, a numerical technique based on molecular simulation, through equations, algorithms, and physical models.

Fundamentals of Aerospace Navigation and Guidance covers fundamentals used in the navigation and guidance of modern aerospace vehicles, in both atmospheric and space flight. It can be used as a textbook supporting a graduate level course on aerospace navigation and guidance or as a resource for practicing engineers and researchers.

Dedicated to space trajectory optimization, this volume includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The authors, all experts and active researchers in their areas of specialization, have written chapters with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.

This book is for practitioners and graduate students in aerodynamics who wish to familiarize themselves with all aspects of SBLI flows. It is a valuable resource for specialists because it compiles experimental, computational and theoretical knowledge in one place.

This book compiles the key scientific and technological knowledge associated with gas turbine emissions into a single authoritative source.

Noise around airports, trains, and industries attracts environmental concern and regulation. Large-eddy simulation (LES) is used for noise-reduced design and acoustical research. This 2007 book, by 30 experts, presents the theoretical background of acoustics and LES, and details about numerical methods, e.g. discretization schemes, boundary conditions, and coupling aspects.

Covering aircraft flight performance, this book focuses on commercial aircraft, with some examples of military aircraft. A multidisciplinary engineering analysis is supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. Environmental performance is discussed at four levels: aircraft noise, contrail effects, landing and take-off emissions and carbon dioxide emissions.

The second edition of this comprehensive guide to modern airship design and operation, written by world experts, is the only up-to-date book on airship technology. This new edition introduces nine new chapters and includes significant revisions and updates to five of the original chapters.

This book is for practitioners and graduate students in aerodynamics who wish to familiarize themselves with all aspects of SBLI flows. It is a valuable resource for specialists because it compiles experimental, computational and theoretical knowledge in one place.

The concept of measuring particle displacements is simple in essence, yet the factors that need to be addressed to design and implement PIV systems that achieve reliable, accurate, and fast measurements and to interpret the results are surprisingly numerous. This book analyses and explains them comprehensively.

Dedicated to space trajectory optimization, this volume includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The authors, all experts and active researchers in their areas of specialization, have written chapters with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.

Enables engineers to understand the most important aspects of rotating machine vibrations, from basic explanations to more accurate numerical models and analysis. This book, together with the the associated MATLAB software, will give engineers the confidence to base their designs on calculations and understand any dynamic phenomena that might occur.

Noise around airports, trains, and industries attracts environmental concern and regulation. Large-eddy simulation (LES) is used for noise-reduced design and acoustical research. This 2007 book, by 30 experts, presents the theoretical background of acoustics and LES, and details about numerical methods, e.g. discretization schemes, boundary conditions, and coupling aspects.

This text, written at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, covers all aspects of flight performance of modern day high-performance aircraft, from take-off to landing, through different phases of flight in climb, cruise, turning and descent.

Berlin offers an in-depth look into all the engineering aspects of geostationary satellite design, construction, and launch.

An informative account of the design of instruments used in rockets and spacecraft. After introducing the basic principles, the book describes mechanical, structural, thermal and electronic design, stress analysis and multilayer insulation. Following chapters discuss two-dimensional sensor systems, mechanisms, the structure of space optics, project management and financial constraints.

This 2001 book offers a treatment of low-speed aerodynamics. It presents both the theory of inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational aerodynamics, and the computational techniques now available to solve complex problems. This second edition includes a new chapter on the laminar boundary layer, the latest versions of computational techniques, and additional coverage of interaction problems.

Although the complexity and capability of flight simulators have matched the growth of aerospace technology, there has until now been no textbook dealing specifically with the design and construction of flight simulators. This is a primary purpose of Flight Simulation.

This book explores system design lifetime problems addressing the technicality of durability, the marginal cost of durability, and the durability choice problem for complex systems with network externalities and obsolescence. It adresses the tension between the design lifetimes of complex systems and the shortening time scales associated with obsolescence.