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Aerodynamics for Engineering Students


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Book Description:

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning, and includes new or expanded coverage in several important areas, such as hypersonic flow, UAV’s, and computational fluid dynamics.

Key Features:

Provides contemporary applications and examples that help students see the link between everyday physical examples of aerodynamics and the application of aerodynamic principles to aerodynamic design.
Contains MATLAB-based computational exercises throughout, giving students practice in using industry-standard computational tools.
Includes examples in SI and Imperial units, reflecting the fact that the aerospace industry uses both systems of units.
Improved pedagogy, including more examples and end-of-chapter problems, and additional and updated MATLAB codes.

Undergraduate and graduate students in aeronautical engineering

About the Author

1) E.L. Houghton
2) P.W. Carpenter
Affiliations and Expertise
Warwick University, UK

3) Steven Collicott
Affiliations and Expertise
Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

4) Daniel Valentine
Daniel T. Valentine is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University.

Affiliations and Expertise

Dept of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA.

Preface to Aerodynamics for Engineering Students PDF E book


This quantity is meant for engineering college students in introductory aerodynamics programs and as a reference helpful for reviewing foundational subjects for graduate programs.

The sequence of topic improvement on this version begins with definitions and ideas after which strikes on to incompressible circulation, low pace airfoil and wing theories, compressible circulation,

excessive pace wing theories, viscous circulation, boundary layers, transition and turbulence, wing design, and concludes with propellers and propulsion (Aerodynamics for Engineering Students).

Reinforcing or instructing first the items, dimensions, and properties of the bodily portions utilized in aerodynamics addresses ideas which might be maybe each the only and probably the most vital.

Widespread aeronautical definitions are coated earlier than classes on the aerodynamic forces concerned and the way the forces drive our definitions of airfoil traits.

The basic fluid dynamics required for the event of aerodynamic research and the evaluation of flows inside and round stable boundaries for air at subsonic speeds is explored in depth within the subsequent two chapters.

Classical airfoil and wing theories for the estimation of aerodynamic traits in these regimes are then developed. Consideration is then turned to the aerodynamics of excessive pace air flows in Chapters 6 and 7.

The legal guidelines governing the habits of the bodily properties of air are utilized to the transonic and supersonic circulation speeds and the aerodynamics of the abrupt adjustments within the circulation traits at these speeds, shock waves, are defined.

Then compressible circulation theories are utilized to elucidate the numerous results on wings in transonic and supersonic flight and to develop applicable aerodynamic traits (Aerodynamics for Engineering Students).

The highly effective idea of the boundary layer and the event of properties of assorted flows when adjoining to stable boundaries create a physique of dependable strategies for estimating the fluid forces on account of viscosity. In aerodynamics, these forces are notably pores and skin friction and profile drag.
Viscosity is a key bodily amount of air and its significance in aerodynamic conditions is subsequent thought of in depth (Aerodynamics for Engineering Students).

Chapters on wing design and circulation management, and propellers and propulsion, respectively, deliver collectively disparate points of the earlier chapters as applicable.

This allows dialogue of some sensible and particular person purposes of aerodynamics. Clearly aerodynamic design at the moment depends extensively on computational strategies.

That is mirrored partly on this quantity by the introduction, the place applicable, of descriptions and discussions of related computational strategies (Aerodynamics for Engineering Students).

Nevertheless, this textual content is aimed toward offering the basic fluid dynamics or aerodynamics background crucial for college students to maneuver efficiently right into a devoted course on computation strategies or experimental strategies.

As such, expertise in computational strategies or experimental strategies will not be required for a whole understanding of the aerodynamics on this Aerodynamics for Engineering Students e-book. The authors urge college students onward to such superior programs and thrilling careers in aerodynamics.

 

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students PDF

Author(s): E.L. Houghton, P.W. Carpenter, Steven H. Collicott, Daniel T. Valentine

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, imprint of Elsevier, Year: 2016

ISBN: 0081001940

 

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