Ackroyd J.A.D., Axcell B.P., Ruban A.I. Early Developments of Modern Aerodynamics

Butterworth Heinemann, 2001. — 253 p. — ISBN 0 7506 5133 4.The key developments in modern flight dynamics were founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Russian and German scientists and engineers. These papers are presented in English for the first time, many of which have never been translated.A survey of the basic principles of modern aerodynamics.
From antiquity to the age of Newton.
From Newton to the emergence of the field theory of fluid flow.
The era of the whirling arm and the invention of the aeroplane.
Nineteenth-century developments in the understanding of fluid flow.
Practical developments in aeronautics.
Frederick William Lanchester (1868–1946).
Lift forces in flowing fluids (Kutta, 1902).
Commentary on Kutta (1902).
On the motion of fluids with very little friction (Prandtl, 1904).
Commentary on Prandtl (1904).
On annexed vortices (Zhukovskii, 1906a).
Commentary on Zhukovskii (1906a).
Boundary layers in fluids with small friction (Blasius, 1908).
Introduction.
Boundary layer for the steady motion at flat plate immersed parallel to the streamlines.
Calculation of the separation position behind a body immersed in a steady flow.
Emergence of the boundary layer and the separation position with a sudden onset of motion from rest.
Formation of the separation position with motion uniformly accelerating from rest.
Application of the results of the separation problems to the circular cylinder.
Commentary on Blasius (1908).
On a two-dimensional flow related to the fundamentals of the problems of flight (Kutta, 1910).
Introduction.
General expression.
The arched shell of circular form.
The lift force on the shell.
A numerical example: the rounding of the leading edge.
Flat plate and shell under various angles of attack β.
Final considerations.
Commentary on Kutta (1910).
On the pressure exerted by a plane-parallel flow on obstructing bodies (aeroplane theory) (Chaplygin, 1910).
Introduction.
Derivation of the general formula for components of the pressure force.
Pressure force in the presence of standing vortices.
The pressure force on a segment of a circular cylinder.
The pressure force acting on a complex wing.
A wing with one cuspidal point.
Other wing forms.
The flow past a plate shaped into a circular arc in the presence of a vortex.
Calculation of the rotating moment.
Commentary on Chaplygin (1910).
On the contours of the aerofoils of hang gliders (Zhukovskii, 1920).
Commentary on Zhukovskii (1910).
Subsequent developments.