Abstract: Sources of airplane drag are introduced. Skin friction and form drag in laminar and turbulent flow, compressibility, and surface roughness effects on skin friction, and the equivalent flat plate method for calculating component drag are described. Drag estimation of major components according to common practice is presented, including wing and tail drag, effect of boundary layer transition on wing and tail drag, fuselage drag, nacelle and pylon drag, landing gear drag, flap drag, and other drag sources. Compressibility effects on drag at high subsonic and low transonic speeds and the area rule are discussed and methods for estimating wave drag coefficients are presented and compared. Sweepback corrections for these methods are illustrated and other three-dimensional wing effects are described. The drag coefficient of the complete airplane is computed and used to calculate the thrust available, the thrust required, the service ceiling, and the Mach number for best cruise.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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