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"Written by one of the leading aerospace educators of our time, each sentence is packed with information. An outstanding book." — Private Pilot "Illuminated throughout by new twists in explaining familiar concepts, helpful examples and intriguing 'by-the-ways.' A fine book." — Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal This classic by a Stanford University educator and a pioneer of aerospace engineering introduces the complex process of designing atmospheric flight vehicles. An exploration of virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics and dynamics, the text demonstrates how these topics interface and how they complement one another in atmospheric flight vehicle design. The mathematically rigorous treatment is geared toward graduate-level students, and it also serves as an excellent reference. Problems at the end of each chapter encourage further investigation of the text's material, the study of fresh ideas, and the exploration of new areas. Dover 2-012 reissue of the Dover 1992 reprint of the Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1974 edition.
| The Morphology of Flight Vehicles | p. 1 |
| Equations of Motion for Rigid Flight Vehicles | p. 27 |
| Introduction to Vehicle Aerodynamics | p. 51 |
| Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Airloads on Thin Wings | p. 65 |
| Propulsive Terms - One-Dimensional Analysis of Jet and Rocket Propulsion | p. 133 |
| Small-Perturbation Response and Dynamic Stability of Right Vehicles | p. 173 |
| Solution of the Small-Perturbation Equations of Motion | p. 207 |
| Static Stability, Trim, Static Performance and Related Subjects | p. 247 |
| Dynamic Performance: Boost from Nonrotating and Rotating Planets; Numerical Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations | p. 265 |
| Aerodynamic Terms for Equations of Motion; Slender and Blunt Bodies | p. 303 |
| Dynamic Performance: Atmospheric Entry | p. 337 |
| The Uses of Optimization | p. 349 |
| References | p. 371 |
| Index | p. 379 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780486672137
ISBN-10: 0486672131
Series: Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 17th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.5
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.522
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