AGARD Reports Related to Aircraft Design

from the Virginia Tech Aircraft Design Information Sources pages

AGARD has many, many very good reports. Many of these are useful for aircraft design. These are the ones I've used in much of my own work. If you find other good ones for aircraft design, let me know and I'll add it to the list. (as of 1996)

AGARD Lecture Series, AGARD-LS

• LS-43 Assessment of Lift Augmentation Devices, April 1970.
• LS-53 Airframe/Engine Integration, 1972
• LS-56 Aircraft Performance-Prediction Methods and Optimization, 1972
• LS-74 Aircraft Stalling and Buffeting, 1975
• LS-111 Cryogenic wind Tunnels, 1980
• LS-114 Dynamic Stability Parameters, 1981
• LS-153 Integrated Design of Advanced Fighters, 1987

AGARD Advisory Reports, AGARD-AR Series (primarily evaluations of conferences)

• AR-82 Effects of Buffeting/Other Transonic Phenomena on Maneuvering Combat Aircraft, 1975
• AR-107 Drag and Other Aerodynamic Effects of External Stores, November 1977
• AR-138 Experimental Data Base for Computer Program Assessment, 1979
• AR-211 Test Cases for Inviscid Flowfield Methods, June 1986.
• AR-224 Boundary Layer Simulation and Control in Wind Tunnels, April, 1988
• AR-226 Aerodynamics of Aircraft Afterbodies
• AR-240 Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Aeronautics, by McCroskey, 1987 (Technical Evaluation Report On CP 412)
• AR-254 Aerodynamic Data Accuracy and Quality: Req'ts. and Capabilities in WT Testing conference held in September 1987 in Naples
• AR-255 Calculation of 3D Separated Turbulent Flows in Boundary Layer Limit, May 1990
• AR-256 State of the Art, Technical Status Review on Drag Prediction and Analysis from Computational Fluid Dynamics: State of the Art, May 1988 Mtg. Pub. June 1989
• AR-257 Fluid Dynamics Panel Symposium on Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics, report on conference held May, 1988 in Lisbon - the CP is 437, vols. I and II
• AR-265 Rotary Balance Testing for Aircraft Dynamics, Dec. 1990
• AR-267 Fluid Dynamics Panel Symp. - Comp Methods for Aero Design (Inverse) and Opt. held in Loen, Norway, May 1989 - see CP-463
• AR-269 Adaptive Wind Tunnel Walls: Technology and Applications, April 1990
• AR-270 Air Intakes for High Speed Vehicles, Sept, 1991
• AR-271 Technical Evaluation Report on Aerodynamics of Combat Aircraft Controls and of Ground Effects, July 1991
• AR-279 Handling Qualities of Unstable Highly Augmented Aircraft, May 1991
• AR-291 Appraisal of the Suitability of Turbulence Models in Flow Calculations, July 1991
• AR-300 Tech. Eval. Report on Progress in Military Airlift, May 1991
• AR-303 A selection of experimental Test cases for the validation of CFD Codes. August 1994
• AR-304 Quality Assessment for wind Tunnel testing, July 1994
• AR-314 Operational Agility, April 1994

AGARD Conference Proceedings, AGARD-CP

• CP-71 Aerodynamic Interference, Jan. 1971.
• CP-62 Preliminary Design Aspects of Military Aircraft, 1969
• CP-91 Inlets and Nozzles for Aerospace Engines, Dec. 1971
• CP-102 Fluid Dynamics of Aircraft Stalling, 1972
• CP-106 Handling Qualities Criteria, October 1971
• CP-119 Stability and Control, 1972
• CP-124 Aerodynamic Drag, 1973
• CP-147 Aircraft Design Integration and Optimization, 1973, pub. 1974
• CP-150 Airframe/Propulsion Interference, Mar. 1975
• CP-157 Impact of Active Control technology on Airplane Design, October 1974
• CP-187 Flight/Ground testing Facilities Correlation, April 1976.
• CP-199 Stall/Spin Problems of Military Aircraft, 1976
• CP-204 Prediction of Aerodynamic Loading, 1976
• CP-235 Dynamic Stability Parameters, 1978
• CP-241 Fighter Aircraft Design, 1978
• CP-247 High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics, Jan. 1979
• CP-260 Stability and Control, 1978
• CP-262 Aerodynamics of Controls, Sept. 1979
• CP-264 Aircraft Excrescence Drag, 1981
• CP-271 Turbulent Boundary Layers Experiments, Theory and Modeling, Jan. 1980
• CP-285 Subsonic/Transonic Configuration Aerodynamics, Sept. 1980
• CP-291 Computation of Viscous-Inviscid Interactions, 1980
• CP-299 Aircraft System Testing, 1981
• CP-301 Aerodynamics of Power Plant Installation, Sept. 1981
• CP-308 Fluid Dynamics of Jets with Applications to V/STOL, Jan. 1982
• CP-334 Prediction of Aerodynamic Loads on Rotorcraft, Sept. 1982
• CP-335 Wall Interference in Wind Tunnels, Sept. 1982
• CP-336 Missile Aerodynamics, Feb. 1983
• CP-339 Comparison Between Wind Tunnel and Flight Results for Aerodynamic Performance, October 1982
• CP-342 Aerodynamics of Vortical Type Floes in Three Dimensions, July 1983
• CP-348 Wind Tunnels and Testing Techniques, Feb. 1984
• CP-365 Improvement of Aerodynamic Performance through Boundary Layer Control and High Lift Systems, August 1984
• CP-366 Aerodynamics and Acoustics of Propellers, Aug. 1984
• CP-386 Unsteady Aerodynamics-Fundamentals and Applications to Aircraft Dynamics, Nov. 1985
• CP-389 Store Airframe Aerodynamics, Jan. 1986
• CP-412 Applications of CFD in Aeronautics, Nov. 1986
• CP-413 Aerodynamic and Related Hydrodynamic Studies Using Water Facilities, June 1987
• CP-428 Aerodynamics of Hypersonic Lifting Vehicles, Nov. 1987
• CP-429 Aerodynamic Data Accuracy and Quality: Requirements and Capabilities in Wind Tunnel Testing, July 1988
• CP-437 Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dec. 1988
• CP-438 Fluid Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Shear Flows and Transition, June 1989
• CP-463 Computational Methods for Aerodynamic Design (Inverse) and Optimization, March 1990
• CP-464 Applications of Mesh Generation to Complex 3D Configurations, March 1990
• CP-465 Aerodynamics of Combat Aircraft Controls and of Ground Effects, October 1989
• CP-484 Landing Gear Design Loads, June 1991
• CP-493 Missile Aerodynamics, April 1990
• CP-494 Vortex Flow Aerodynamics, July 1991
• CP-496 Effects of Adverse Weather on Aerodynamics, Dec. 1991
• CP-497 Manoeuvring Aerodynamics, Nov. 1991
• CP-498 Aerodynamic Engine/Airframe Integration for High Performance Aircraft and Missiles, Sept. 1992
• CP-507 Transonic Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity, Mar. 1992
• CP-508 Flying Qualities, October 1990
• CP-510 CFD Techniques for Propulsion Applications, Feb. 1992
• CP-514 Theoretical and Experimental Methods for Hypersonic Flows, April 1993
• CP-515 High Lift Aerodynamics, Sept. 1993
• CP-531 Smart Structures for Aircraft and Spacecraft, April 1993
• CP-534 Computational and Experimental Assessment of Jets in Cross Flow, Nov. 1993
• CP-535 Wall Interference, Support Interference and Flow Field Measurements, July 1994
• CP-547 Recent Advances in Long Range and Long Endurance Operation Aircraft, Nov. 1993
• CP-548 Technology for Highly Maneuverable Aircraft, Mar. 1994
• CP-551 Application of Direct and Large eddy Simulation to Transition and Turbulence, Dec. 1994
• CP-552 Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of Rotorcraft, August 1995

AGARD R Series

• R-712 Special Course on Subsonic/Transonic Aerodynamic Interference for Aircraft, 1983.
• R-723 Aircraft Drag Prediction and Reduction, August 1985
• R-736 The Prospects for Finite Element Analysis Methods for Structural Qualification, April 1986.
• R-737 Crashworthiness of Airframes, Apr. 1986
• R-738 Aircraft Response to Turbulence, June 1986
• R-739 Aircraft Dynamic Response to Damaged and Repaired Runways, Mar. 1987
• R-740 Special Course on Fundamentals of Fighter Aircraft Design, Oct. 1987.
• R-761 Special Course on Aerothermodynamics of Hypersonic Vehicles, June 1989
• R-764 Three-Dimensional Supersonic/Hypersonic Flows, Including Separation, Jan. 1990
• R-774 Advances in Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Testing Techniques, Nov. 1989
• R-776 Aircraft Dynamics at High Angles of Attack: Experiments and Modelling, March 1991
• R-780 Inverse Methods in Airfoil Design for Aeronautical and Turbomachinery Applications, Nov. 1990
• R-781 Aerodynamics of Rotorcraft, Nov. 1990
• R-783 Engineering Methods in Aerodynamic Analysis and Design of Aircraft, Jan. 1992
• R-784 Integrated Design Analysis and Optimisation of Aircraft Structures, Feb. 1992
• R-786 Skin Friction Drag Reduction, March 1992
• R-787 Unstructured Grid Methods for Advection Dominated Flows, May 1992
• R-792 Shock-Wave/Boundary Layer Interactions in Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows, August 1993
• R-793 Progress in Transition Modelling, April 1994
• R-803 Optimum Design Methods for Aerodynamics, Nov. 1994
• R-804 Missile Aerodynamics, May 1994

AGARD AGARDOgraphs, AG

• AG-202 Store Separation, by L.H. Schindel, June 1975
• AG-203 Two Dimensional Shock Wave-Boundary Layer Interactions, by W.L. Hankey, Jr., and M.S. Holden, June 1975
• AG-204 Vortex Wakes of Conventional Aircraft, by C. duP. Donaldson and A.J. Bilanin, May 1975
• AG-266 Computational Transonic Aerodynamics, Aug. 1982.
• AG-280 Turbulent Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions, 1985
• AG-281 2D Wind Tunnel Wall Interference, Nov. 1983.
• AG-287 Two-Dimensional Turbulent Separated Flow, by Roger L. Simpson, June 1985.
• AG-302 Techniques of Flow Visualization, Dec. 1988
• AG-303 Reynolds Number Effects in Transonic Flow, Dec. 1988
• AG-309 Three Dimensional Grid Generation for Complex Configurations: Recent Progress, 1988
• AG-311 Computational Fluid Dynamics: Algorithms and Supercomputers, 1988
• AG-315 A Survey of Measurements and Measuring Techniques in Rapidly Distorted Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers, May 1989
• AG-318 Experimental Techniques in the Field of Low Density Aerodynamics, April 1991
• AG-319 Design and Testing of High Performance Parachutes, Nov. 1991
• AG-323 Scale effects on Aircraft and weapon Aerodynamics, July 1994
• AG-325 Computational Aerodynamics Based on the Euler Equations, Sept. 1994

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