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Fundamentals of Aerodynamics » (4th Edition)

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Authors: John D. Anderson
ISBN-13: 9780072950465, ISBN-10: 0072950463
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: 4th Edition

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Author Biography: John D. Anderson

John D. Anderson, Jr. is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air & Space Museum Smithsonian Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.

Book Synopsis

In keeping with its bestselling previous editions, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, fourth edition, offers the most readable, interesting, and up-to-date overview of aerodynamics to be found in any text. The classic organization of the text has been preserved, with new standalone viscous flow sections at the end of various chapters to conceptualize the coverage of this topic in part 4, and complement discussion of fundamental principles in part 1, inviscid incompressible flow in part 2, and inviscid compressible flow in part 3.

Historical topics, carefully developed examples, numerous illustrations, and a wide selection of chapter problems are found throughout the text to motivate and challenge students of aerodynamics.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1Aerodynamics : some introductory thoughts3
Ch. 2Aerodynamics : some fundamental principles and equations95
Ch. 3Fundamentals of inviscid, incompressible flow189
Ch. 4Incompressible flow over airfoils295
Ch. 5Incompressible flow over finite wings391
Ch. 6Three-dimensional incompressible flow467
Ch. 7Compressible flow : some preliminary aspects485
Ch. 8Normal shock waves and related topics515
Ch. 9Oblique shock and expansion waves559
Ch. 10Compressible flow through nozzles, diffusers, and wind tunnels617
Ch. 11Subsonic compressible flow over airfoils : linear theory657
Ch. 12Linearized supersonic flow709
Ch. 13Introduction to numerical techniques for nonlinear supersonic flow725
Ch. 14Elements of hypersonic flow757
Ch. 15Introduction to the fundamental principles and equations of viscous flow791
Ch. 16Some special cases; Couette and Poiseuille flows825
Ch. 17Introduction to boundary layers867
Ch. 18Laminar boundary layers883
Ch. 19Turbulent boundary layers921
Ch. 20Navier-Stokes solutions : some examples933
App. AIsentropic flow properties949
App. BNormal shock properties955
App. CPrandtl-Meyer function and Mach angle959
App. DStandard atmosphere, SI units963
App. EStandard atmosphere, English engineering units973

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