Aerodynamics


X-34 comes in to land. Credits: Orbital Sciences Corporation

Introduction

School of  Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Experimental Aerodynamics Group, School of AE, Georgia Tech


General Information
 Business Information / Industry
 Societies
 Courses
 Simulations, Computer Programs
Flow Visualization (Real)
 Technical Papers
 Data 
 Theses
 

Courses

Complete Course Material ADL Core:

Specialized Lectures / Book chapters:


Papers, Reports and Libraries

Paper Journals:

annual reviews  : http://www.annurev.org/

aiaa journal :  http://www.aiaa.org/publications/journals/aiaa-scope.html

Journals link from AJ Smits :   http://www.princeton.edu/~gasdyn/Fluid_Dyn_Links/journals.html
 

Programs

Calculators (you put in a few numbers; out comes the answer)

Standard Atmosphere: U. Syracuse's Dr. Higuchi:    http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/atmo1.html

Reynolds number calculator (Higuchi)   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/reynolds1.html

Mach number calculator. Higuchi : http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/mach1.html

Speed, M, Re etc. Calculator: T.U. Delft: http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/~bert/speeds.html

Dynamic Pressure Calculator:  Higuchi:     http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/dynpres/DynPres.html

Disk drag coefficient.   OZON:  http://www.amanet.ru/~ozon/cd_disk.htm

Sphere drag coefficient OZON: http://www.amanet.ru/~ozon/cd_sfera.htm

Sphere drag calculation: Higuchi :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/dragforce/DragForce.html

Cone and ballute drag coefficients  OZON:   http://www.amanet.ru/~ozon/cd_cone.htm

Parachute with rigid canopy:  OZON:  http://www.amanet.ru/~ozon/cd_canop.htm

NACA 4-digit airfoil series: Jens Trapp and Robert Zores.Instt.Fluid Mech.,  DLR. http://www.sm.go.dlr.de/~jens/NACA.html

NACA 5-digit airfoil series: Jens Trapp and Robert Zores. Institute Fluid Mechanics, DLR  http://www.sm.go.dlr.de/~jens/NACA.html

2-D Airfoil Flow   Calculator: U. Michigan:    http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/aero/java/Airfoil/

Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator : Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Isentropic Flow Calculator: T.U. Delft:    http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/~bert/isentropic.html

Mass Flow  Calculator: TU Delft:  http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_calculator_fr.html

Prandtl-Meyer Flow Calculator: T.U. Delft:   http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/~bert/expansion.html

Normal and oblique shocks : T.U. Delft:  http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_calculator_fr.html
 

Numerical Simulations
Airfoil analysis by Hess-Smith Panel Method: Higuchi:   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/af1.html

Simulation of boundary layer separation: Higuchi  http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/cfdredder.html

Shockwave applet:  Higuchi :     http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/shock1.html

Sound propagation from a moving source (Higuchi):  http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/wave1.html

Baseball pitch simulation: Higuchi :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/base1.html

Golf ball trajectory simulation: Higuchi :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/golf_top1.html

Streamlines past spinning cylinder: Higuchi :    http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/spin1.html

Superposition of Elementary Flows  Higuchi :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/superp1.html

Simulation of a pendulum in a fluid: (Higuchi):  http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/af1.html

Interactive flow computation from Dr. Ilan Kroo's textbook:   http://www.desktopaero.com/appliedaero/appliedaero.html

Scientific/Technical Center "OZON", Russia:  Server-based Computation of  parachute/parafoil aerodynamics; fabric aeroelasticity; structural dynamics.  Requires only user's e-mail address. http://www.amanet.ru/~ozon/computer.htm

PROFOIL-WWW Version 1.1

Synergium's CFD Tools

Software Technology for Fluidmechanics
 

Visualizations
Flowvis: Cessna through cloudbank: vortices (from Higuchi): http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/downwash1.html

Parachute flight test: visualization :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/parachute1.html
 

Theses

  • CFD books list

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    Data
    Unit conversion. Hiroshi Higuchi, U. Syracuse :    http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/unit1.html

    Table of non-dimensional parameters in fluid dynamics: Hiroshi Higuchi :   http://www.mame.syr.edu/simfluid/redder/non1.html

    Data sources  AJ Smits :   http://www.princeton.edu/~gasdyn/Fluid_Dyn_Links/data.html

    European Community on Flow Turbulence and Combustion: Database: University of Surrey http://fluindigo.mech.surrey.ac.uk/

    UIUC: Selig's Airfoil Data Site    http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/ads.html

    Analytical Methods Incomplete Airfoil Data Site (for aircraft)     http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/ads/aircraft.html

    Heat Transfer Data; Japan:    http://ted.mech.titech.ac.jp/HTDB/dathet.html

    U. Tokyo DNS and PTV databases :   ftp://ftp.thtlab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
     

    Professional Societies & Research Labs
    Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group
    American Helicopter Society Aerodynamics Technical Committee
    experimental aerodynamics and flow diagnostics
    NASA LaRC AERO- and GAS-DYNAMICS DIVISION Home Page
    University of Houston - Aerodynamics & Turbulence Laboratory
    CFD and Acoustics Group
     

    Business

  • Century Dynamics Inc.
  • DAILY NEWS ARCHIVES
  • Dynamic Filtration Ltd.
  • ELORET Home Page
  • Energy Recovery International
  • Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures, Inc. (AASI)
  • Aerodynamics , Inc
  • Aerodynamics and Airfoil Analysis For the PC
  • Aerodynamics of Cyclilng
  • Moller International's Skycar
  • Precision Aerodynamics , Inc.
  • TCP Aerodynamics

    • Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics
    University of Southampton - Wolfson Unit for Marine Technology & Industrial Aerodynamics
  • Century Dynamics Inc.
  • Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc.
  • Fluid Cell Presses
  • About IGPP
  • Fluid Mechanics in Virginia Tech

    • TECHNICAL SUB-DISCIPLINES

    Aerodynamics In Car Racing

  • Aerodynamics in Sports Technology
  • Low Speed Aerodynamics and Aircraft Flight Dynamics

    • Science of Cycling: Aerodynamics (Page 1 of 2)

    Rotorcraft Aerodynamics

    Microaero Site

    Windpower Site

    Fluid Dynamics

    Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

    Gas Dynamics

    Misc. Russia Sites