Aerodynamics For Engineering Students

FIFI'H EDITION L E. LoHoughton PW Carpenter Aerodynamics for Engineering Students Frontispiece (see overleaf) Aircraft wake (photo courtesy of Cessna Aircraft Company). This photograph first appeared in the Gallery of Fluid Motion, Physics of Fluids (published by the American Institute of Physics), Vol. 5, No. 9, Sept. 1993, p. S5, and was submitted by Professor Hiroshi Higuchi (Syracuse University). It shows the wake created by a Cessna Citation VI flown immediately above the fog bank over Lake Tahoe at approximately 313 km/h. Aircraft altitude was about 122 m above the lake, and its mass was approximately 8400 kg. The downwash caused the trailing vortices to descend over the fog layer and disturb it to make the flow field in the wake visible. The photograph was taken by P. Bowen for the Cessna Aircraft Company from the tail gunner’s position in a B-25flying slightly above and ahead of the Cessna. Aerodynamics for Engineering Students Fifth Edition E.L. Houghton and P.W. Carpenter Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Warwick ! E I N E M A N N OXFORD AMSTERDAM BOSTON LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Rd, Burlington MA 01803 First published in Great Britain 1960 Fourth edition published in 1993 by Edward Arnold Fifth edition published by Butterworth-H