Aircraft design

Aircraft Design: Synthesis and Analysis

Aircraft Design: Synthesis and Analysis
Contents 0. Preface
0.1 Instructions 0.2 General References

1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Notes 1.1.1 Aerodynamics History 1.1.2 Boeing History 1.1.3 Airbus History 1.1.4 Invention of the Airplane 1.2 Aircraft Origins 1.2.1 New Aircraft Development 1.2.2 The Airline Industry 1.3 Future Aircraft 1.4References

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2. The Design Process
2.1 Market Determination 2.2 Design Requirements and Objectives 2.3 Exercise 1: Design Requirements 2.4 Design Optimization 2.5 Computational Methods

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3. Fuselage Layout
3.1 Cross Section Design 3.1.1 Exercise 2: Cross Section 3.2 Fuselage Shape 3.2.1 Exercise 3:Copyright Notice
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Fuselage Layout 3.3 FARs Related to Fuselage Design 3.3.1 Seating-Related Items 3.3.2 Emergency Egress 3.3.3 Emergency Demonstration 3.4 Fuselage Design for SSTs

4. Drag
4.1 Parasite Drag 4.1.1 SkinFriction Coefficient 4.1.2 Form Factor 4.1.3 Wetted Area 4.1.4 Control Surface Gap Drag 4.1.5 Nacelle Base Drag 4.1.6 Fuselage Upsweep Drag 4.1.7 Miscellaneous Drag Items 4.2 Induced Drag 4.3 Compressibility Drag 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 Predicting Mdiv 4.3.3 3D Effects and Sweep 4.3.4 Computing CDc 4.3.4.1 Computational Example 4.4 Supersonic Drag 4.4.1 Volume Wave Drag 4.4.2 Lift-Dependent Wave Drag4.4.3 Program for Wave Drag Calculation 4.5 Wing-Body Drag Polar

5. Airfoils
5.1 History and Development 5.2 Airfoil Geometry 5.3 Pressure Distributions

5.4 Cp and Performance 5.5 Relating Geometry and Cp 5.5.1 Cp and Curvature 5.5.2 Interactive Calculations 5.6 Airfoil Design 5.7 Typical Design Problems 5.7.1 Thick Sections 5.7.2 High Lift Sections 5.7.3 Laminar Sections 5.7.4 TransonicSections 5.7.5 Low Reynolds Number Sections 5.7.6 Low Cm Sections 5.7.7 Multiple Design Points 5.8 Airfoil Design Program

6. Wing Design
6.1 Wing Geometry 6.1.1 Wing Geometry Drawing 6.2 Wing Design Parameters 6.3 Lift Distributions 6.3.1 About Wing Lift Distributions 6.3.2 Geometry and Lift Distributions 6.3.3 Lift Distributions and Performance 6.4 Wing Design in More Detail 6.5 NonplanarWings and Winglets 6.6 Wing Layout Issues 6.7 Wing Analysis Program 6.8 Supersonic Wings

7. High-Lift Systems
7.1 Introduction 7.2 General Approach 7.4 Estimating CLmax

7.5 CLmax for SSTs 7.6 Wing-Body CLmax Calculation

8. Stability and Control
8.1 Introduction 8.2 Static Longitudinal Stability 8.2.1 Stability and Trim Calculation 8.3 Dynamic Stability 8.4 Longitudinal Control 8.5 LateralControl 8.6 Tail Design and Sizing 8.7 FARs related to Stability 8.8 FARs related to Control

9. Propulsion
9.1 Basic Concepts 9.2 Installation 9.2.1 Engine Placement 9.2.2 Nacelle Design 9.2.3 Supersonic Considerations 9.3 Performance & Engine Data 9.3.1 Thrust vs. Speed and Altitude 9.3.2 SFC and Efficiency 9.3.3 Large Turbofan Data 9.3.4 Small Turbofans Data 9.3.5 Engines for SST's 9.4...