Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics by J.Seddon (0632020326)

This book is highly recommended for newbies willing to study on Helicopter aerodynamics, written by John.M.Seddon. Flight dynamics is completely different from helicopters. All basic helicopter controls with complete air-frame and structural details have been discussed in depth in this book. Various formats of this textbook is available on Amazon including Kindle edition at it costs around $43 USD. This book includes topics on Rotor in Vertical Flight: Momentum Theory and Wake Analysis, Blade Element Theory, Rotor Mechanisms, Rotor Aerodynamics, Aerodynamic Design, Trim, Stability and Control, Hinge-less rotor, Auto stabilization and much more.

Specifications

This book is published by Blackwell Science Ltd on the year 1990 which includes a total of 154 pages. ISBN of the textbook “Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics” is 0632020326 and ISBN-13 is 978-0632020324.

From the back cover:

Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight. Simon Newman has brought this third edition completely up to date with a full new set of illustrations and imagery. An accompanying website www.wiley.com/go/seddon contains all the calculation files used in the book, problems, solutions, PPT slides and supporting MATLAB® code.

Simon Newman addresses the unique considerations applicable to rotor UAVs and MAVs, and coverage of blade dynamics is expanded to include both flapping, lagging and ground resonance. New material is included on blade tip design, flow characteristics surrounding the rotor in forward flight, tail rotors, brown-out, blade sailing and shipborne operations.

Concentrating on the well-known Sikorsky configuration of single main rotor with tail rotor, early chapters deal with the aerodynamics of the rotor in hover, vertical flight, forward flight and climb. Analysis of these motions is developed to the stage of obtaining the principal results for thrust, power and associated quantities. Later chapters turn to the characteristics of the overall helicopter, its performance, stability and control, and the important field of aerodynamic research is discussed, with some reference also to aerodynamic design practice.
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