Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics (Aiaa Education Series)

Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics, Third Edition unifies all aspects of flight dynamics for the efficient development of aerospace vehicle simulations. It provides the reader with a complete set of tools to build, program, and execute simulations. Unlike other books, it uses tensors for modeling flight dynamics in a form invariant under coordinate transformations. For implementation, the tensors are converted into matrices, resulting in compact computer code. This book also serves as an anchor for three self-study courses which are based on M&S courses in C++ previously taught at the University of Florida. They are Building Aerospace Simulations in C++; Fundamentals of Six Degrees of Freedom Aerospace Simulation and Analysis in C++; and Advanced Six Degrees of Freedom Aerospace Simulation and Analysis in C++.
CONTENTS
Nomenclature
List of Acronyms
Chapter 1 Overview
PART 1 MODELING OF FLIGHT DYNAMICS
Chapter 2 Mathematical Concepts in Modeling
Chapter 3 Frames and Coordinate Systems
Chapter 4 Kinematics of Translation and Rotation
Chapter 5 Translational Dynamics
Chapter 6 Attitude Dynamics
Chapter 7 Perturbation Equations
PART 2 SIMULATION OF AEROSPACE VEHICLES
Chapter 8 Three-Degrees-of-Freedom Simulation
Chapter 9 Five-Degrees-of-Freedom Simulation
Chapter 10 Six-Degrees-of Freedom Simulation
Chapter 11 Real-Time Applications
Appendix A Matrices
Appendix B CADAC_FTN Primer
Appendix C Aerospace Simulations in C++
Appendix D Foundation of Tensor Flight Dynamics
Appendix E CADAC++ Architecture
Index
Supporting Materials

Peter H. Zipfel is a graduate of the University Stuttgart, Germany, and the Catholic University of America with a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. He founded Modeling and Simulation Technologies, which advises and instructs functional integration of aerospace systems using computer simulations. For 35 years he taught courses in modeling and simulation, guidance and control, and flight dynamics at the University of Florida, and over the span of 50 years he created aerospace simulations of helicopters, missiles, aircraft, and hypersonic vehicles for the German Helicopter Institute, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air Force. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and an internationally recognized short course instructor.