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Key Features:
Coverage of new developments in aero, including: UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UCAVs (uninhabited combat aerial vehicles) in Chapter 6; application of CFD in aircraft design; and the newest spaceflight technologies.
Readers are shown how concepts are reflected in the latest aero technologies.
Examples in each chapter of the book.
Would you like a text which integrates the latest aero developments?
Each chapter features a "Preview Box" that provides readers with a motivating rationale for learning the given chapter`s material.
See "Preview Boxes" at the beginning of each chapter.
Readers are given a good sense of what the chapter will present, and the sequence of topics to be covered.
Improved learning features throughout the new edition, including updated Road Maps and Design Box features, new data, illustrations, examples and historical highlights.
See features within each book chapter.
Students are given numerous learning resources within each chapter, to help them learn basic aero concepts and applications.
More study tools including the addition of chapter summaries, and 15% more worked examples.
See examples in each book chapter.
The good worked examples help readers link concepts and their application in engineering.
Approximately 35% new and/or revised problems.
Professors have new problems to assign, and student readers have a greater selection of them to test their understanding.
See chapter problem sets for each book chapter.
Additional coverage of space flight vehicles, supersonic airplanes, trajectories, unmanned aircraft, and rocket staging.
Are you looking for a text with coverage of both airplane and space flight topics?
Readers are exposed to space flight topics as well as those relating to airplanes.
See chapters 8 through 11.
Strong integration of historical and biographical information.
Would you like a text which references history while covering the most current technologies?
The author uses history and biography to show the evolution of aerodynamics and flight in a highly interesting and motivational way.
See chapters 1 and 2, and historical information integrated throughout the book.
Table of Content:
1 The First Aeronautical Engineers
2 Fundamental Thoughts
3 The Standard Atmosphere
4 Basic Aerodynamics
5 Airfoils, Wings, and Other Aerodynamics Shapes
6 Elements of Airplane Performance
7 Principles of Stability and Control
8 Space Flight (Astronautics)
9 Propulsion
10 Flight Vehicle Structures and Materials
11 Hypersonic Vehicles
Appendix A Standard Atmosphere, SI Units
Appendix B Standard Atmosphere, English Engineering Units
Appendix C Symbols and Conversion Factors
Appendix D Airfoil Data
ISBN 9780071263184
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Pages : 800
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