Computational Flight Dynamics
Computational Flight Dynamics
Malcolm J. AbzugAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics1998ISBN 1 56347 259 7500 pp. (including disk)£72.50
Keywords Aerospace,Programming, Publication
A detailed instructional kit illustrating digital solutions to problems in aircraft dynamic stability,control and flight performance. Readers with a working knowledge of FORTRAN can learn in a step-by-step format several effective programming techniques in a range of flight dynamics areas.
Of the five programs included, FLIGHT and LOCUS both previously used in-flight control system designs for two production unmanned air vehicles provide the necessary tools for studying uncontrolled aircraft motions, stability, and the design of automatic flight control systems.
A DOS or Windows environment is required for the FORTRAN programs included on the 3.5in. diskette, which contains source programs, run (input) files, and database files. Access to a compiler for FORTRAN 77 or 90 is also necessary.
Contents: Airframe and Atmosphere Mathematical Modeling; Control and Guidance System Modeling; Program LOCUS, S-Plane Locus; Program ZPLANE, Z-Plane Root Locus; Program FLIGHT,Transient Response; Program PERFORM, Flight Path Calculation; Progam COVAR,Covariance Propagation; Utility Subroutines; Example Run Files (Inputs) and Outputs; Appendices.
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