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This document provides an overview of the objectives, learning outcomes, and topics covered in a course on flight dynamics. The course aims to provide an understanding of concepts like static stability, control, and aerodynamic stability derivatives. It will also cover predicting longitudinal and lateral dynamic characteristics of airplanes. Students will learn to assess static stability and control characteristics, and how to modify designs to ensure safe flight. Topics covered include basic and derived physical units, standard atmosphere, Mach number, Reynolds number, boundary layers, Bernoulli's equation, airfoil lift and drag, finite wings, and aircraft performance.

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Flight Dynamics - Notes

This document provides an overview of the objectives, learning outcomes, and topics covered in a course on flight dynamics. The course aims to provide an understanding of concepts like static stability, control, and aerodynamic stability derivatives. It will also cover predicting longitudinal and lateral dynamic characteristics of airplanes. Students will learn to assess static stability and control characteristics, and how to modify designs to ensure safe flight. Topics covered include basic and derived physical units, standard atmosphere, Mach number, Reynolds number, boundary layers, Bernoulli's equation, airfoil lift and drag, finite wings, and aircraft performance.

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Flight Dynamics

EEAQ 3123
Course Objectives

1. To provide students with an understanding of basic concepts of flight stability and control.
2. To understand the design variables that can be used to ensure static stability and control in pitch
yaw and roll;
3. To predict the aerodynamic stability derivatives for design
4. To predict the longitudinal and lateral dynamic characteristics for airplane.

Learning outcomes
1. Predict the static stability and control characteristics of an airplane.
2. Assess whether predicted static stability and control characteristics are sufficient for safe flight
and if not how can the design be changed to make it safe.
3.
Basic Physical Units
Derived Physical Units
For this unit, the gravitational acceleration of the earth g = 9.81m/s2.

For calculations involving angles, you’ll need to understand that 360o =2𝜋rad
The Standard Atmosphere
Mach Number
Characterisation of flow
Reynold’s Number
Boundary Layer
Bernoulli’s Equation for Incompressible Flow
Pressure Distribution and Flow Separation
Questions
1. Is force a basic or derived unit?
2. What is the standard atmosphere?
3. What’s the difference between Mach number and Reynold’s number?
4. Derive Bernoulli’s equation for incompressible flow.
5. With the aid of diagrams, show the transition from laminar to turbulent
flow within the boundary layer.
Airfoil Fundamentals
Generation of Lift and Origin of Drag
Aerodynamic Coefficients
Airfoil Lift Curve
For reasonable angles of attack, there’s a linear relation between the coefficient of
lift Cl and the angle of attack 𝛼. For airfoils that are symmetric, i.e. no camber,
there’s no lift generated at 𝛼 = 0

The derivative of Cl with respect to 𝛼 is denoted as Cl 𝛼.


Airfoil Drag Polar
High Lift Systems
Questions
1. How does the flap deflection angle differ
Finite Wings
The most effective remedy for induced drag is the design of large aspect ratio
wings. The addition of vertical surfaces at the wing tips winglets reduces the
strength of the wing tip vortices and therefore decreases the induced drag.
Lift of the Finite Wing
Estimation of CL and CD for a Finite Wing
Aircraft Aerodynamics
Questions
AIRCRAFT
PERFORMANCE
Basic Equations of Motion
Load Factor
Aeroplane Propulsion
Propeller with Piston Engine
Gas Turbine Engines
Straight, Level and Unaccelerated Flight
Effect of Altitude on Power Diagrams
Climbing Flight and Flight Envelope

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