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Aircraft Stability and Control

Prof. A K Ghosh · IIT Kanpur

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About

This course is designed to understand stability and control aspects of an airplane. This course will also help in creating a background to design an airplane from stability and control aspects.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Core course for UG students

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : NAL Bangalore, ARDE Pune, ADE Bangalore, ADA Bangalore

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture-01 Introduction YouTube
  2. Lecture-02 Introduction to Static Stability YouTube
  3. Lecture-03 Stability and Trim YouTube
  4. Lecture-04 Stability: Wing Contribution YouTube
  5. Lecture-05 Tail Contribution and Static Margin YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture-06 Problems : Stability and Wing Contribution YouTube
  2. Lecture-07 Problems : Stability Tail Contribution YouTube
  3. Lecture-08 Neutral Point and Fuselage Contribution YouTube
  4. Lecture-09 Longitudinal Control YouTube
  5. Lecture-10 Longitudinal Control continued.... YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture - 11 Control: Elevator YouTube
  2. Lecture - 12 CL_trim Vs 𝛿e_trim YouTube
  3. Lecture - 13 Neutral Point: A Closer Look YouTube
  4. Lecture - 14 Contribution of Engine towards Stability YouTube
  5. Lecture - 15 Revision YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture - 16 Trim: Cruise, Climb and Landing YouTube
  2. Lecture - 17 Trim: Maneuver YouTube
  3. Lecture - 18 Maneuvering Point: Stick Fixed YouTube
  4. Lecture - 19 Numerical: Stick Fixed Maneuvering Point and Flight Demonstration YouTube
  5. Lecture - 20 Revision YouTube

Week 5

  1. Lecture - 21 Directional Stability YouTube
  2. Lecture - 22 Directional Control YouTube
  3. Lecture - 23 Lateral Stability and Control YouTube
  4. Lecture - 24 Numericals : Directional, Lateral Stability and Control YouTube
  5. Lecture - 25 Revision YouTube

Week 6

  1. Lecture - 26 Stick Free Stability YouTube
  2. Lecture - 27 Stick Free Stability continued... YouTube
  3. Lecture - 28 Hinge Moment and Hinge Moment Derivative YouTube
  4. Lecture - 29 Aircraft Handling Qualities YouTube
  5. Lecture - 30 Aircraft Handling Qualities continued... YouTube

Week 7

  1. Lecture - 31 Reversible Control: Stick Free and Trim Tabs YouTube
  2. Lecture - 32 Numericals: Stick Free YouTube
  3. Lecture - 33 Numericals: Stick Free Continued... YouTube
  4. Lecture - 34 Handling Qualities: Maneuvering Flight YouTube
  5. Lecture - 35 Determination of Neutral Point and Maneuvering Point by Flight Experiment YouTube

Week 8

  1. Lecture - 36 Point Mass Equation of Motion YouTube
  2. Lecture - 37 Forces and Moments YouTube
  3. Lecture - 38 Aircraft Equations of Motion YouTube
  4. Lecture - 39 Six Degrees of Freedom of an Aircraft YouTube
  5. Lecture - 40 6 DoF : Angular Momentum Components YouTube

Week 9

  1. Lecture - 41 Vector in a Rotating Frame YouTube
  2. Lecture - 42 Euler Angles YouTube
  3. Lecture - 43 Small Perturbation Theory YouTube
  4. Lecture - 44 Small Perturbation Theory Continued... YouTube
  5. Lecture - 45 Perturbed Equations of Motion: Longitudinal Case YouTube

Week 10

  1. Lecture - 46 Perturbed Force : fz YouTube
  2. Lecture - 47 Perturbed Force : fz Continued... YouTube
  3. Lecture - 48 Perturbed Pitching Moment YouTube
  4. Lecture - 49 Longitudinal Dimensional Stability Derivatives YouTube
  5. Lecture - 50 Dynamic Stability YouTube

Week 11

  1. Lecture - 51 Longitudinal Modes YouTube
  2. Lecture - 52 Short Period and Phugoid Approximations YouTube
  3. Lecture - 53 Pure Pitching Motion YouTube
  4. Lecture - 54 Stability Augmentation System (SAS) YouTube
  5. Lecture - 55 Lateral-Directional Motion YouTube

Week 12

  1. Lecture - 56: Tutorial - 1 YouTube
  2. Lecture - 57: Tutorial - 2 YouTube
  3. Lecture - 58: Tutorial - 3 YouTube
  4. Lecture - 59: Tutorial - 4 YouTube
  5. Lecture - 60 History of Aviation YouTube
  6. Lecture -61 Tutorial-5 YouTube

Syllabus and materials

At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Teacher
Prof. A K Ghosh
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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