Spreadsheet Fluid Dynamics in Aerospace Engineering

Spreadsheets are now widely used in engineering and scientific fields to solve numerical, analytical, and experimental problems. The present authors tried to extend the Spreadsheet Fluid Dynamics, i.e., SFD, to aerospace engineering problems. Spreadsheets enable us to present the analytical solutions in graphical forms easily. The matrix inverse function makes it possible to solve the aerodynamic panel methods and the vortex lattice method. The iteration function can be used to solve the potential, the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations. Experimental problems and data processing are also the strengths of spreadsheets. We show that various types of aerospace engineering problems are handled by SFD. We first introduce the application in the aerodynamic experiments. The numerical solutions of aerodynamic equations are presented successively. It is also stressed that the calculations by spreadsheet can be understood by others quite easily and the internet capability, i.e., e-mailing and the export function via internet is very valuable