Basic Wing and Arifoil Theory, 1951, 1951

Document Type: Textbook (Technical).

Purpose: Training and Education.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope (from Preface): "Books in the field of wing and airfoil theory have been written either at a very elementary level for the college junior or at a high level for the advanced student. Few, if any, papers have been presented at a level directly suitable for the college senior or first-year graduate stu-dent. Noting this situation in 1941, the author started a course at the "between" level, which has finally emerged as this textbook after some delay because of wartime exigencies. The material has been used in mimeograph form at the Georgia Institute of Technology in a one-year course."

Contents (from Table of Contents): Preface List of Symbols Chapter 1. Vector Analysis 2. Complex Variables and Fourier Series 3. The Stream Function 4. Other Flow Functions 5. The Joukowski Transformation 6. Airfoil Construction and Pressure Distribution 7. Thin-Arifoil Theory 8. Thick-Airfoil Theories 9. The Finite Wing 10. The Monoplane Wing 11. The Field About the Wing 12. Spanwise Load Distribution for Arbitrary Wings 13. Miscellaneous Applications of Perfect Fluid Theory Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Index