Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Winter’2019
Instructor: Prof. Fue-Sang Lien
ERC-2024
Ext: 36528
Email: fslien@uwaterloo.ca
Text:
(Main Text) Aircraft Performance and Design, John D. Anderson, McGraw-Hill (ISBN 0-07-001971-1).
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, John D. Anderson, McGraw-Hill (ISBN 0-07-001679-8).
References:
Aerodynamics for Engineers, John J. Bertin & Michael L. Smith, Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-13-576356-8).
Aerodynamics, Aeronautics and Flight Mechanics, Barnes W. McCormick, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
(ISBN 0-471-57506-2).
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Daniel P. Raymer, AIAA Education Series.
Fundamental of Flight, Richard S. Shevell, Prentice Hall.
Introduction to Aircraft Performance, Selection and Design, Francis J. Hale, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, McGraw-Hill.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mark Lambert (Ed.), Jane's Information Group Inc.
Theory of Wing Sections, I.H. Abbott and A.E. Von Doenhoff, Dover Publications, Inc.
Topics:
1. Drag/Lift (Introduction)
o Aerodynamic Lift, drag and moments
o Flow similarity and Buckingham Pi theorem (ME 351 review)
o Aerodynamic coefficients: CL, CD, CM
o Center of pressure and aerodynamic center
o NACA airfoil nomenclature
o Wing-geometry parameters (aspect ratio, taper ratio, sweep angle, dihedral angle, geometric twist)
o Lift
Lift for an infinite-span wing
Lift for a finite-span wing (high-aspect-ratio, low-aspect ratio, straight wing, swept wing, delta
wing)
Compressibility correction
o Drag
Friction drag, pressure drag, interference drag, parasite drag and induced drag
Subsonic drag, transonic drag and supersonic drag
o Drag polar
4. Propulsion
o Reciprocating engine/propeller
o Turboprop
o Turbofan
o Turbojet
o Thrust, power, specific fuel consumption and efficiency
5. Aircraft performance
o Fundamental parameters: thrust-to-weight ratio (T/W), wing loading (W/S), drag polar (CL versus CD),
lift-to-drag ratio (L/D)
o Thrust and power required
o Rate of climb and time of climb
o Absolute and service ceilings
o Range
o Endurance
o Takeoff and landing
6. Aircraft design
o Requirement
o Estimation of weight - first estimate
o Critical performance parameters: (CL)max, L/D, W/S, T/W
o Configuration layout
o Better weight estimate
o Performance analysis
o Optimization
Marking scheme:
Assignments (2) 15%
Quiz (1) 10%
Aircraft estimation and design 25%
Final exam 50%