Jean Cousteix – författare

Le but du livre est de donner aux enseignants et aux étudiants (à partir de Bac+4) en mathématiques appliquées et en mécanique des fluides un outil d''enseignement et d''apprentissage illustré par cinquante problèmes accompagnés de leur correction détaillée. Ce livre présente une nouvelle méthode d''analyse asymptotique pour des problèmes de "couche limite". Celle-ci est appelée MASC "Méthode des Approximations Successives Complémentaires". La première moitié du livre est consacrée, outre la présentation de la MASC, à ordonner les connaissances nécessaires à l''analyse asymptotique et à donner les clés permettant la compréhension de ce qu''est un problème dit de "couche limite" et des méthodes permettant de construire une approximation. La seconde partie est consacrée à l''application de la MASC en mécanique des fluides et à la comparaison avec les méthodes plus traditionnelles issues de la célèbre MDAR, "Méthode des Développements Asymptotiques Raccordés".

Viscous flow is treated usually in the frame of boundary-layer theory and as two-dimensional flow. Books on boundary layers give at most the describing equations for three-dimensional boundary layers, and solutions often only for some special cases.

This book provides basic principles and theoretical foundations regarding three-dimensional attached viscous flow. Emphasis is put on general three-dimensional attached viscous flows and not on three-dimensional boundary layers. This wider scope is necessary in view of the theoretical and practical problems to be mastered in practice.

The topics are weak, strong, and global interaction, the locality principle, properties of three-dimensional viscous flow, thermal surface effects, characteristic properties, wall compatibility conditions, connections between inviscid and viscous flow, flow topology, quasi-one- and two-dimensional flows, laminar-turbulent transition and turbulence.

Though the primary flight speed range is that of civil air transport vehicles, flows past other flying vehicles up to hypersonic speeds are also considered. Emphasis is put on general three-dimensional attached viscous flows and not on three-dimensional boundary layers, as this wider scope is necessary in view of the theoretical and practical problems that have to be overcome in practice.

The specific topics covered include weak, strong, and global interaction; the locality principle; properties of three-dimensional viscous flows; thermal surface effects; characteristic properties; wall compatibility conditions; connections between inviscid and viscous flows; flow topology; quasi-one- and two-dimensional flows; laminar-turbulent transition; and turbulence. Detailed discussions of examples illustrate these topics and the relevant phenomena encountered in three-dimensional viscous flows. The full governing equations, reference-temperature relations for qualitative considerations and estimations of flow properties, and coordinates for fuselages and wings are also provided. Sample problems with solutions allow readers to test their understanding.