3: Aerodynamics
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Aerodynamics is the discipline that studies the forces and the resulting motion of objects in the air. Therefore, the basis of atmospheric flight is found on the study of aerodynamics (a branch of fluid mechanics). We start then giving the fundamentals of fluid mechanics in Section 3.1. Section 3.2 and Section 3.3 are devoted to the study of aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, respectively. Finally, Section 3.4 analyzes high-lift devices. Thorough references are Anderson [2] and Franchini and García [3, Chap. 3].