Learn · Design of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Lecture 7 of 23Week 2
Lecture 7 - Lifting line theory, NACA airfoil nomenclature
Prof. Saderla Subrahmanyam · IIT Kanpur
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All the lectures
- Lecture 1 - Introduction , course content and classification of UAVs
- Lecture 2 - Measurement of Flight Velocity and Standard Atmosphere
- Lecture 3 - Anatomy of Airplane and Airfoil Nomenclature
- Lecture 4 - Examples, Pitot and static tube and differential pressure sensor.
- Lecture 5 - Generation of Lift and Drag
- Lecture 6 - Aerodynamic center and center of pressure, Various wing planform
- Lecture 7 - Lifting line theory, NACA airfoil nomenclature
- Lecture 8 - Airfoil and Finite wing, Various wing planform
- Lecture 9 - Interpreting airfoil data, Cl vs Alpha and drag polar, selection of airfoil
- Lecture 10 - Introduction to Airplane performance, Equation of motion
- Lecture 11 - Thrust required and Power required
- Lecture 12 - Calculation of Performance parameters and selection of power plant
- Lecture 13 - Climb Performance, Engine Sizing and Power Plant selection
- Lecture 14 - Weight Estimation , Common propulsion systems
- Lecture 15 - Weight Estimation contd., Electric propulsion, Battery Sizing
- Lecture 16 - Iterative weight estimation and Wing sizing
- Lecture 17 - Wing Planform selection and sizing and Flight test of Cropped delta wing UAVs
- Lecture 18 - Effect of variation of CG location and Static Stability
- Lecture 19 - C.G. location and Longitudinal Static stability
- Lecture 20 - Tutorial 1
- Lecture 21 - Contribution of tail in static stability and Neutral point.
- Lecture 22 - Tutorial 2
- Lecture 23 - Tutorial 3