This book is a modern treatment of aerodynamic principles of
helicopters and rotating-wing vertical lift aircraft.
Written by an internationally recognized teacher and researcher,
this book provides a thorough, modern treatment of the aerodynamic
principles of helicopters and other rotating-wing vertical lift
aircraft such as tilt rotors and autogiros. The text begins with a
unique technical history of helicopter flight, and then covers
basic methods of rotor aerodynamic analysis, and related issues
associated with the performance of the helicopter and its
aerodynamic design. It goes on to cover more advanced topics in
helicopter aerodynamics, including airfoil flows, unsteady
aerodynamics, dynamic stall, and rotor wakes, and rotor-airframe
aerodynamic interactions, with final chapters on autogiros and
advanced methods of helicopter aerodynamic analysis. Extensively
illustrated throughout, each chapter includes a set of homework
problems. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practising
engineers, and researchers will welcome this thoroughly revised and
updated text on rotating-wing aerodynamics.
Review quote:
'- Professor Leishman has provided a significant addition to
the literature that will prove its worth for many years to
come.' Alfred Gessow, Vertiflite
'- a complete treatment of the subject, pulling together
between its covers all the relevant topics in a useable manner. The
book will be suitable for anyone in the industry or academia who
has to function at a high technical level. In particular, I
recommend it highly to those of us who are not aerodynamicists per
se, but need to be increasingly well informed on aerodynamic
matters -' Stewart Houston, Aerospace Journal
'Not only is this book a good text for the graduate student but
it is also a good book for practical engineers and researchers -
This book is an excellent addition to a reference library.'
Chee Tung, AIAA Journal
Table of contents:
Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition;
Acknowledgements; List of main symbols; 1. Introduction: a history
of helicopter flight; 2. Fundamentals of rotor aerodynamics; 3.
Blade element analysis; 4. Rotating blade motion; 5. Helicopter
performance; 6. Aerodynamics design of helicopters; 7. Aerodynamics
of rotor airfoils; 8. Unsteady airfoil behavior; 9. Dynamic stall;
10. Rotor wakes and blade tip vortices; 11. Rotor-airframe
interaction aerodynamics; 12. Autogiros and gyroplanes; 13.
Aerodynamics of wind turbines; 14. Computational methods for
helicopter aerodynamics; Appendix; Index.
Ausstattung/Bilder: 2nd ed. 2006. XXXVII, 826 p. w. figs.
Seitenzahl: 864
Cambridge Aerospace Series
Englisch
Abmessung: 262mm x 184mm x 48mm
Gewicht: 1610g
ISBN-13: 9780521858601
ISBN-10: 0521858607
Best.Nr.: 20807290
'... Professor Leishman has provided a significant addition to the literature that will prove its worth for many years to come.' Alfred Gessow, Vertiflite '... a complete treatment of the subject, pulling together between its covers all the relevant topics in a useable manner. The book will be suitable for anyone in the industry or academia who has to function at a high technical level. In particular, I recommend it highly to those of us who are not aerodynamicists per se, but need to be increasingly well informed on aerodynamic matters ...' Stewart Houston, Aerospace Journal 'Not only is this book a good text for the graduate student but it is also a good book for practical engineers and researchers ... This book is an excellent addition to a reference library.' Chee Tung, AIAA Journal
J. Gordon Leishman is the Minta Martin Chair of Engineering and Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is a former aerodynamicist at Westland Helicopters and has written extensively on topics in helicopter aerodynamics. Dr Leishman is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the American Helicopter Society.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgements; List of main symbols; 1. Introduction: a history of helicopter flight; 2. Fundamentals of rotor aerodynamics; 3. Blade element analysis; 4. Rotating blade motion; 5. Helicopter performance; 6. Aerodynamics design of helicopters; 7. Aerodynamics of rotor airfoils; 8. Unsteady airfoil behavior; 9. Dynamic stall; 10. Rotor wakes and blade tip vortices; 11. Rotor-airframe interaction aerodynamics; 12. Autogiros and gyroplanes; 13. Aerodynamics of wind turbines; 14. Computational methods for helicopter aerodynamics; Appendix; Index.
