aerodynamics
Articles
- Slow flight
- Vortex liftLift from highly sweptback aircraft wings
- Bernoulli grip
- Kline–Fogleman airfoilAirfoil design
- Static pressureTerm in fluid mechanics
- USAF Stability and Control DATCOM
- Prandtl–Glauert transformationMathematical technique in aerodynamics
- Aircraft flight mechanicsPhysics of heavier than air aircraft
- Coandă effectTendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a surface of any form
- Wind tunnelMachine used for studying the effects of air moving around objects
- Anti-shock bodyPod attached to a plane's aerodynamic surface, to reduce wave drag at transonic speeds
- Blade pitchAngle of a blade in a fluid
- Wing warpingEarly system for lateral control of a fixed-wing aircraft
- Coordinated flightFlight of an aircraft without sideslip
- Propulsive efficiencyMeasure of efficiency in aerospace engineering
- AirfoilCross-sectional shape of a wing, blade of a propeller, rotor, or turbine, or sail
- Missile Datcom
- Oblique shockShock wave that is inclined with respect to the incident upstream flow direction
- Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft)Aircraft in or near a stall rolling
- Vortex liftLift from highly sweptback aircraft wings
- Bernoulli grip
- Kline–Fogleman airfoilAirfoil design
- Clark Y airfoilAirfoil design
- Laminar flowFlow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers
- Lifting-line theoryMathematical model to quantify lift
- Sears–Haack bodyMost aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles
- Stockbridge damperTuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations
- P-factorYawing force caused by a rotating propeller
- Center of gravity of an aircraftPoint over which the aircraft would balance
- Clark Y airfoilAirfoil design
- Laminar flowFlow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers
- Lifting-line theoryMathematical model to quantify lift
- Sears–Haack bodyMost aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles
- Stockbridge damperTuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations
- CrosswindWind that faces opposite side of a plane when landing
- Clark Y airfoilAirfoil design
- Laminar flowFlow where fluid particles follow smooth paths in layers
- Lifting-line theoryMathematical model to quantify lift
- Sears–Haack bodyMost aerodynamic shape for supersonic vehicles
- Stockbridge damperTuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations
- Headwind and tailwindType of wind by direction of travel
- Center of gravity of an aircraftPoint over which the aircraft would balance
- Headwind and tailwindType of wind by direction of travel
- Vortex ringTorus-shaped vortex in a fluid
- Bow shock (aerodynamics)Curved propagating disturbance wave
- Keel effect
- Anti-shock bodyPod attached to a plane's aerodynamic surface, to reduce wave drag at transonic speeds
- Blade pitchAngle of a blade in a fluid
- Wing warpingEarly system for lateral control of a fixed-wing aircraft
- SlipstreamFluid dynamics phenomenon