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Aerodynamics is the science that deals with the motion of air and other gaseous fluids, and with the forces acting on solid bodies when they move through gaseous fluids, or when gaseous fluids move against or around solid bodies. Therefore aerodynamics comes into play when air is flowing over airplanes, automobiles, cars, ships, buildings, and other objects. Aerodynamics also comes into play when air is flowing through ducts or other enclosed spaces such as wind tunnels, jet and rocket engines, and pipes. The movement of air can result in certain aerodynamic effects, such as heat that is generated and transferred to the surfaces of a solid body with which the air comes in contact. A specific example would be the heating up of the skin of a high-speed aerospace vehicle.
Anderson, John D. Aerodynamics. In McGraw-Hill encyclopedia
of science & technology. 8th ed. v. 1. New York, McGraw-Hill,
c1997. p. 167-169. Datta, Sreela. Aerodynamics. In Gale encyclopedia of science.
v. 1. Detroit, Mich., Gale Research, c1996. Wegener, Peter P. What makes airplanes fly?: history, science,
and applications of aerodynamics. 2nd ed. New York, Springer,
c1997. 260 p.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on aerodynamics can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following: Highly Relevant
Anderson, John David. A history of aerodynamics and its impact
on flying machines. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University
Press, 1997. 478 p. (Cambridge aerospace series, 8) Anderson, John David. Fundamentals of aerodynamics. 3rd
ed. Boston, McGraw-Hill, c2001. 892 p. Anderson, John David. Introduction to flight. 4th ed. Boston,
McGraw-Hill, c2000. 766 p. Hubin, Wilbert N. The science of flight: pilot-oriented aerodynamics.
Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1992. Tennekes, H. (Hendrik). The simple science of flight: from
insects to jumbo jets. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1996. 137
p.
Abzug, Malcolm J., and E. Eugene Larrabee. Airplane stability
and control: a history of the technologies that made aviation possible.
Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 373 p. (Cambridge
aerospace series, 6) Anderson, John David. Modern compressible flow: with historical
perspective. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, c1990. 650 p. Ashley, Holt. Engineering analysis of flight vehicles. New
York, Dover, 1992. 386 p. Bertin, John J., and Michael L. Smith. Aerodynamics for engineers.
3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice-Hall, c1998. 668 p. Cook, M. V. Flight dynamics principles. London, Arnold;
New York, Wiley, 1997. 379 p. Dole, Charles E., and James. E. Lewis. Flight theory and aerodynamics:
a practical guide for operational safety. 2nd ed. New York,
John Wiley & Sons, c2000. 314 p. Etkin, Bernard, and Lloyd Duff Reid. Dynamics of flight: stability
and control. 3rd ed. New York, Wiley, c1996. 382 p. Hancock, G. J. An introduction to the flight dynamics of rigid
aeroplanes. New York, Ellis Horwood, 1995. 561 p. Kuethe, Arnold M., and Chuen-Yen Chow. Foundations of aerodynamics:
bases of aerodynamic design. 5th ed. New York, Wiley, c1998.
572 p. McCormick, Barnes Warnock. Aerodynamics, aeronautics, and flight
mechanics. 2nd ed. New York, Wiley, c1995. 652 p. Nelson, Robert C. Flight stability and automatic control.
2nd ed. Boston, WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1998. 441 p. Russell, J. B. Performance and stability of aircraft. London,
Arnold; New York, Wiley, 1996. 294 p. Schmidt, Louis V. Introduction to aircraft flight dynamics.
Reston, Va., American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
c1998. 397 p. Shevell, Richard Shepherd. Fundamentals of flight. 2nd
ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., c1989. 438 p. Smith, Hubert. The illustrated guide to aerodynamics. 2nd
ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., TAB Books, c1992. 337 p. Sutton, O. G. (Oliver Graham). Mastery of the air: an account
of the science of mechanical flight. London, Hodder and Stoughton,
c1965. 218 p.
Aeroacoustics of flight vehicles: theory and practice.
Edited by Harvey H. Hubbard. Woodbury, N.Y., published for the Acoustical
Society of America through the American Institute of Physics, c1995.
2. v. (NASA reference publication, 1258) Leishman, J. Gordon. Principles of helicopter aerodynamics.
Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 496 p. (Cambridge
aerospace series, 12) Love, Michael C. Spin management and recovery. New York,
McGraw-Hill, c1997. 237 p. McCormick, Barnes Warnock. Aerodynamics of V/STOL flight.
Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, c1999. 328 p. A Modern course in aeroelasticity. Earl H. Dowell, editor.
3rd rev. and enl. ed. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic, c1995.
699 p. (Solid mechanics and its applications, v. 32) Natural laminar flow and laminar flow control. R. W. Barnwell,
M. Y. Hussaini, editors. New York, Springer-Verlag, c1992. 411 p.
Ramm, Heinrich J. Fluid dynamics for the study of transonic
flow. New York, Oxford University Press, c1990. Rogers, David F. Laminar flow analysis. Cambridge, New
York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 422 p. Rom, Josef. High angle of attack aerodynamics: subsonic, transonic,
and supersonic flows. New York, Springer-Verlag, c1992. 399
p. Schlichting, Hermann, and Klaus Gersten. Boundary-layer theory.
8th rev. and enl. ed. Berlin, New York, Springer, c2000. 799 p.
Smits, Alexander J., and Jean-Paul Dussauge. Turbulent shear
layers in supersonic flow. Woodbury, N.Y., American Institute
of Physics, c1996. 357 p.
Durand, William Frederick. Aerodynamic theory: a general review
of progress. New York, Dover Publications, 1963. 3 v. Eiffel, Gustave. Résumé des principaux travaux exécutés pendant
la guerre au Laboratoire Aérodynamique Eiffel, 1915-1918. Paris,
Librarie Aérodynamique, E. Chiron éditeur, c1919. 212 p. Eiffel, Gustave. The resistance of the air and aviation; experiments
conducted at the Champ-de-Mars Laboratory. 2nd ed., rev. and
enl., translated by Jerome C. Hunsaker. London, Constable; Boston,
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913. 242 p. 50 {i.e. Fünfzig} Jahre Grenzschichtforschung, eine Festschrift
in Originalbeiträgen. Edited by H. Görtler and W. Tollmien.
Braunschweig, F. Vieweg, 1955. 499 p. Lanchester, F.W. (Frederick William). Aerodonetics, constituting
the second volume of a complete work on aerial flight. 2nd ed.
London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1910. 433 p. Lanchester, F.W. (Frederick William). Aerodynamics, constituting
the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight. London,
Archibald Constable & Co., 1907. 442 p. Langley, S.P. (Samuel Pierpont). Experiments in aerodynamics.
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1891. 115 p. (Smithsonian contributions
to knowledge, v. 27, no. 2) (Smithsonian Institution. Publication,
801) Langley, S.P. (Samuel Pierpont). The internal work of the wind.
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1893. 23 p. (Smithsonian contributions
to knowledge, v. 27, no. 2) (Smithsonian Institution. Publication,
884) Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont). Langley memoir on mechanical
flight. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1911. 320 p. (Smithsonian
contributions to knowledge, v. 27, no. 3) (Smithsonian Institution.
Publication, 1948) Lilienthal, Otto. Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst.
3. aufl. München and Berlin, R. Oldenbourg, 1939. 187 p. Munk, Max Michael. The principles of aerodynamics. Washington,
The Author, c1933. 252 p. Roy, Maurice. Théorie des surfaces portantes: la théorie de
Prandtl. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1923. 129 p. Von Mises, Richard. Theory of flight. With the collaboration
of W. Prager and Gustav Kuerti. With a new introd. by Kurt H. Hohenemser.
New York, Dover Publications, 1959. 629 p.
Aerospace vehicle dynamics and control: based on the proceedings
of a conference organized by the Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications on aerospace vehicle dynamics and control, held at
the Cranfield Institute of Technology, in September 1992. Edited
by M. V. Cook and M. J. Rycroft. Oxford, Clarendon Press; New York,
Oxford University Press, 1994. 438 p. (The Institute of Mathematics
and its Applications conference series, new ser., 47) Computational aeroacoustics. Jay C. Hardin, M. Y. Hussaini,
editors. New York, Springer-Verlag, c1993. 513 p. Computational aeronautical fluid dynamics. Edited by L.
Fezoui, J. Periaux, and J. C. R. Hunt. Oxford, Clarendon Press;
New York, Oxford University Press, 1994. 381 p. (The Institute of
Mathematics and its Applications conference series, new ser., 44)
Computational methods in aeronautical fluid dynamics: based
on the proceedings of a conference organized by the Institute of
Mathematics and its Applications on computational methods in aeronautical
fluid dynamics, held at the University of Reading in April 1987.
Edited by P. Stow. Oxford, Clarendon Press; New York, Oxford University
Press, 1990. 402 p. (The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
conference series, new ser., 25)
Dissertations may be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Al-Garni, Abdullah Mohammed. Wind tunnel testing of an airfoil
with a moving surface boundary-layer control. Ann Arbor, Mich.,
University Microfilms, 1999. Carlson, Eric Bernard. Optimal tiltrotor aircraft operations
during power failure (trajectory optimization). Ann Arbor, Mich.,
University Microfilms, 1999. Glass, Christopher Earl. Numerical study of rarefied hypersonic
flow interacting with a continuum jet. Ann Arbor, Mich., University
Microfilms, 1999. Gopalarathnam, Ashok. Hybrid methods for inverse aerodynamic
design. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1999. Manning, Valerie Michelle. Large-scale design of supersonic
aircraft via collaborative optimization. Ann Arbor, Mich., University
Microfilms, 1999.
Baals, Donald D., and William R. Corliss. Wind tunnels of NASA.
Washington, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1981. 154 p. (NASA SP, 440)
Hurt, Hugh H. Aerodynamics for naval aviators. Renton,
Wash., Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1992. 416 p. Talay, Theodore A. Introduction to the aerodynamics of flight.
Washington, Scientific and Technical Information Office, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1975. 198 p. (NASA SP, 367)
Technical reports and other types of literature are indexed in the following guides:
Reports listed below are available upon request in the Science Reading Room. These and other reports on aerodynamics may also be purchased from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, Virginia 22161. NTIS telephone: (800) 553-6847. Lallman, F. J., J. B. Davidson, and P. C. Murphy. Method for
integrating thrust-vectoring and actuated forebody strakes with
conventional aerodynamic controls on a high-performance fighter
airplane. Hampton, Va., Langley Research Center, 1998. 46 p.
(NASA/TP 1998 208464) Missiles aerodynamics. Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, France,
NATO Research and Technology Organization, 1998. 506 p. (RTO-MP-5)
(AC/323(AVT)TP/3) Newman, P.A., and others. Overview of sensitivity analysis
and shape optimization for complex aerodynamic configurations.
Hampton, Va., Langley Research Center, 1998. 26 p. Smith, M.S. Analysis of wind tunnel oscillatory data of the
X-31A aircraft. Hampton, Va., Joint Institute for Advancement
of Flight Science, 1999. 128 p. (NASA CR 1999 208725) Soemarwoto, Bambang I. Airfoil optimization using the Navier-Stokes
equations by means of the variational method. Reston, Va., American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. 9 p. Wooden, P. A., E. R. McQuillen, and W. B. Brooks. Evaluation of
a simplified multiple store interference model. Reston, Va., American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. 12 p.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other literature on aerodynamics are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are: Aerodynamic HeatingFirstSearch, ProQuest, Infotrac, and Engineering Index, available on workstations in the Science Reading Room and the Computer Catalog Center, contain files that may be useful in obtaining information about aerodynamics. Consult reference staff for the location of abstracting and indexing (A&I) services and the computer terminals.
Journals that often contain relevant articles include the following:
Anderson, W. Kyle, and Daryl L. Bonhaus. Airfoil design on unstructured
grids for turbulent flows. AIAA journal, v. 37, Feb. 1999:
185-191. Batten, P., and others. Reynolds-stress-transport modeling for
compressible aerodynamics applications. AIAA journal, v.
37, July 1999: 785-797. Bermúdez, L., A. Velázquez, and A. Matesanz. Numerical simulation
of unsteady aerodynamics effects in horizontal-axis wind turbines.
Solar energy, v. 68, Jan. 2000: 9-21. Boonyapinyo, Virote, Toshio Miyata, and Hitoshi Yamada. Advanced
aerodynamic analysis of suspension bridges by state-space approach.
Journal of structural engineering, v. 125, Dec. 1999: 1357-1366.
Cobo del Arco, Diego, and Ángel Aparicio. Improving suspension
bridge wind stability with aerodynamic appendages. Journal of
structural engineering, v. 125, Dec. 1999: 1367-1375. Gern, Frank H., and Liviu Librescu. Effects of externally mounted
stores on aeroelasticity of advanced swept cantilevered aircraft
wings. Aerospace science and technology, v. 2, July 1998:
321-333. Lee, B.H.K., S.J. Price, and Y.S. Yong. Nonlinear aeroelastic
analysis of airfoils: bifurcation and chaos. Progress in aerospace
sciences, v. 35, Apr. 1999: 205-334. Li, Pei, Helmut Sobieczky, and Richard Seebass. Manual aerodynamic
optimization of an oblique wing supersonic transport. Journal
of aircraft, v. 36, Nov./Dec. 1999: 907-913. Qin, N., Y. Zhu, and D. I. A. Poll. Surface suction on aerofoil
aerodynamic characteristics at transonic speeds. Proceedings
of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part G, Aerospace engineering,
v. 212, no. G5, 1998: 339-351. Robinson, Keith W., and J. Gordon Leishman. Effects of ballistic
damage on the aerodynamics of helicopter rotor airfoils. Journal
of aircraft, v. 35, Sept./Oct. 1998: 695-703. Slimon, Scot A., Marios C. Soteriou, and Donald W. Davis. Computational
aeroacoustics simulations using the expansion about incompressible
flow approach. AIAA journal, v. 37, Apr. 1999: 409-416. Steer, A. J., and M. V. Cook. Control and handling qualities considerations
for an advanced supersonic transport aircraft. Aeronautical journal,
v. 103, June 1999: 265-272. Tang, Deman, and Earl H. Dowell. Unsteady aerodynamic forces and
aeroelastic response for external store of an aircraft. Journal
of aircraft, v. 35, Sept./Oct. 1998: 678-687. Türk, L., D. Coors, and D. Jacob. Behavior of wake vortices near
the ground over a large range of Reynolds numbers. Aerospace
science and technology, v. 3, Feb.1999: 71-81. Wang, Frank Y., Özgür Karatekin, and Jean-Marc Charbonnier. Low-speed
aerodynamics of a planetary entry capsule. Journal of spacecraft
and rockets, v. 36, Sept./Oct. 1999: 659-667. Yanagihara, Masaaki, Masashi Shigemi, and Takanobu Suito. Estimating
aerodynamic characteristics of automatic landing flight experiment
vehicle using flight data. Journal of aircraft, v. 36, Nov./Dec.
1999: 926-933. Zuber, Matthew E., and others. Aerothermodynamic environment for
a generic missile. Journal of spacecraft and rockets, v.
36, Jan./Feb. 1999: 44-52.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following:
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
The Internet offers a growing number of sites for research on aerodynamics. Most of the organizations listed in the previous section provide links to related sites from their web sites. In addition to the following sites, it is also possible to use a search engine, such as AltaVista, Google, or Northern Light, to locate additional sites. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Home Page
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collections
and Research: Aeronautics Division National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technical
Reports Server Glenn Research Center Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
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