High Speed Flow
£53.99
GBPHigh-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research-workers in fluid dynamics. It covers such topics as subsonic and supersonic flight, shock waves, high-speed aerofoils, and temperature changes. Starting from first principles, the book gives complete and elementary derivations of all results, and takes the reader to research level in the subject. The book contains many exercises and an extensive bibliography, providing access to the entire literature of the subject from 1860 to the present day, and including over two hundred items published since 1990. It contains the most extensive set of formulae on thermodynamics and oblique shock waves ever assembled.
- Detailed treatment of oblique shock waves, including the most comprehensive set of formulae on oblique shock waves ever assembled
- A classified listing of all the papers, over two hundred in number, published on high speed flow in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics in the period 1990–1998
- Numerous exercises, suitable for the student or for the lecturer in setting problem-sheets or examinations
Reviews & endorsements
'… is a competent and concise treatment of the most important elements and concepts of high-speed flows. High Speed Flow is certainly a fine book for a mature researcher in fluid mechanics who quickly wishes to grasp, in a theoretical setting, the key concepts of high-speed flows.' T. F. Balsa, Applied Mechanics Review
'… can be recommended as a useful tool for a scientific study of high speed flows.' W. Wuest, Zentralblatt MATH
Product details
June 2000Paperback
9780521666473
272 pages
229 × 153 × 18 mm
0.4kg
96 b/w illus. 8 tables 56 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Governing equations
- 3. Thermodynamics
- 4. Smooth flow of an ideal fluid
- 5. Characteristic surfaces and rays
- 6. Shocks
- 7. Steady one-dimensional flow
- 8
- Prandtl–Meyer expansion
- 9. Aerofoils
- 10. Characteristics for steady two-dimensional flow
- 11. Shock reflections and intersections
- 12. The hodograph method
- 13. Guide to high speed flow.
