Professor Gil Iosilevskii, a valued member of the faculty, has recently published a new book titled “Wing Theory – Incompressible Fluids,” which is now available through Springer. This book represents years of dedicated research and meticulous attention to detail, embodying the scientific rigor for which Professor Iosilevskii is renowned.
Back cover Abstract: A high Reynolds number flow about a lifting wing typically forms a thin boundary layer on its surface, which smoothly merges with a thin vortical wake behind it. An asymptotic theory, based on wing’s thickness, camber, angle of attack and aspect ratio, can turn this simple observation into a fair approximation for the pressure loads acting on a finite wing in generally non-uniform motion. This book unfolds this theory step-by-step, revisiting a few well-known and some less-known results along the way. The fidelity of the approximation is demonstrated in numerous examples. The stress in the book is on mathematical rigor, and all non-trivial steps are scrutinized in numerous appendices. The book can be a basis for a graduate course on theoretical aerodynamics, but can also be a reference for quite a few practical aerodynamic models.
