Beschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the derivation of computational models from basic physical & mathematical principles, giving the reader sufficient information to be able to represent the basic architecture of air vehicles and their embedded systems. Highly relevant to practitioners, it takes into account the multi-disciplinary nature of aerospace products and the integrated nature of the models needed to represent them. Following on from Volume 1- Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment - which focuses on the modelling of the environment in which aircraft operate - this book focuses on the modelling of the aerospace vehicles (aircraft and rotorcraft) themselves.
Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment represents a development of the existing Aerospace series titles from Moir and Seabridge, as the author draws on some of the same examples used in previous works and dissects them mathematically - thus giving a degree of commonality with earlier books in the series. More high level, detailed mathematics will be allocated to the appendices in order to render the main body of the material digestible as an introductory level text.
Includes chapters on dynamics and control, flight dynamics & physics, generic aircraft and rotorcraft, vehicle and mission systems, and integration, operability & interoperability
Serves as both a student text and practitioner reference
Follows on from previous Aerospace series titles, taking some of the same examples used in these texts and dissecting them mathematically
Accompanied by a website at www. wiley. com / go / diston which houses software, animations and useful weblinks.

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Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment, Volume 2: Aircraft Dynamics

Dominic J. Diston, Engineering Consultant

This book provides a comprehensive guide to modelling and simulation from basic physical and mathematical principles, giving the reader sufficient information to be able to build computational models of aircraft for the purposes of simulation and evaluation Highly relevant to practitioners, it takes into account the multi-disciplinary nature of aerospace products and the integrated nature of the models needed in order to represent them. Volume 1- Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment focused on the modelling of a synthetic environment in which aircraft operate and its spatial relationship with vehicles that are situated and moving within it. This volume focuses on the modelling of aircraft and the interpretation of their flight dynamics.

Key features:
* Includes chapters on equations of motion, fixed-wing aerodynamics, longitudinal flight and gas turbines, as well as an opening chapter that presents an overview of flight modelling and a concluding chapter that presents a number of additional topics (such as aircraft structures and embedded systems).
* Serves as both a student text and practitioner reference.
* Follows on from previous Aerospace series titles, offering a complementary view of vehicles and systems from the perspectives of mathematics, physics and simulation.

This book offers a comprehensive guide for senior, graduate and postgraduate students of aerospace engineering as well as professional engineers involved in the modelling and simulation of aircraft.