Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (McGraw-Hill Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering)

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.

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.

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

Part 1 Fundamental Principles

1 Aerodynamics: Some Introductory Thoughts

2 Aerodynamics: Some Fundamental Principles and Equations

Part 2 Inviscid, Incompressible Flow

3 Fundamentals of Inviscid, Incompressible Flow

4 Incompressible Flow over Airfoils

5 Incompressible Flow over Finite Wings

6 Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flow

Part 3 Inviscid, Compressible Flow

7 Compressible Flow: Some Preliminary Aspects

8 Normal Shock Waves and Related Topics

9 Oblique Shock and Expansion Waves

10 Compressible Flow Through Nozzles, Diffusers, and Wind Tunnels

11 Subsonic Compressible Flow over Airfoils: Linear Theory

12 Linearized Supersonic Flow

13 Introduction to Numerical Techniques for Nonlinear Supersonic Flow

14 Elements of Hypersonic Flow

Part 4 Viscous Flow

15 Introduction to the Fundamental Principles and Equations of Viscous Flow

16 Some Special Cases; Couette and Poiseuille Flows

17 Introduction to Boundary Layers

18 Laminar Boundary Layers

19 Turbulent Boundary Layers

(and more...)