Название: Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective, 4th Edition
Автор: John Anderson
Издательство: McGraw Hill
Год: 2021
Страниц: 793
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 36.4 MB

The purpose of this book is to provide an understandable and enjoyable teaching instrument in the classroom or independently for the study of compressible fluid flow. It is intentionally written in a rather informal style to talk to the reader, to gain his or her interest, and to keep the reader absorbed from cover to cover. It is aimed primarily at the senior undergraduate and first-year graduate student in aerospace, mechanical, and chemical engineering. However, it is also written for use by the practicing engineer and scientist who is striving to obtain a cohesive picture of the subject of compressible flow from a modern perspective. This book is meant to be read, not just used as a handbook to search for the equation that will solve a given problem. Compressible flow is a beautiful intellectual technical subject, and I believe that, like a masterwork painting made up of an inestimable number of brushstrokes, every word in this book is like a brushstroke in the whole canvas of compressible flow. Every word should be read and thought about in order for the reader to truly appreciate the “masterpiece” intellectual nature of this subject.

The response to the first three editions of Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective, from students, faculty, and practicing professionals has been overwhelmingly favorable. Therefore, this new edition preserves much of this successful content while adding important new components. It preserves the author’s informal writing style that talks to the reader, that gains the readers’ interest, and makes the study of compressible flow an enjoyable experience. Moreover, it blends the classical nature of the subject with modern aspects of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and high temperature gas dynamics so important to modern applications of compressible flow. In short, this book is a unique teaching and learning experience.

Taken in total, the book provides the twenty-first-century student with a balanced treatment of both the classical and modern aspects of compressible flow.