Flight Vehicle Performance and Aerodynamic Control (AIAA Education Series) - Hardcover

Frederick O. Smetana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563474638 ISBN 13: 9781563474637

Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001

Synopsis

Flight Vehicle Performance and Aerodynamic Control is designed to serve as a text for either an 11-week or a 16-week course at the sophomore level. It explains typical methods used to estimate aircraft performance, the theoretical basis of these methods, and how various parameters derived from the aircraft geometry can be used to estimate the requirements of control surfaces and the aerodynamic forces required to actuate these surfaces. This book includes time-tested computer programs that perform the analyses in a manner that reduces student error and improves result accuracy. Because the source code is given, users with a FORTRAN compiler can modify the program to suit particular needs. The major advantage of the software is that more realistic problems may be treated and the effects of parametric programs are more accurate than calculators. The programs are available as executables for Windows machines as well as in ASCII source code versions that can be readily compiled and then executed on Unix, Linux, and Macintosh machines, and on mainframes.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563474638
• ISBN 13: 9781563474637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 379