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Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics

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This book in conjunction with Anderson's "Modern Compressible Flow with Historical Perspective" will give you and excellent fundamental background in high temp gas dynamics. I think the third section alone of this book (which introduces stastical mechanics, kinetic theory, chemically reacting flows, equilibrium and nonequilibrium flows) is worth the price.

While this description refers to an out of print edition by McGraw-Hill, the book has been republished by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with the ISBN 156347459X.

I just finished reading an old edition, whihc is late 80's and it's incredible, I can't wait to get this new edition. If you like aerodynamics and are interested in space re-entry vehicles, for sure you should have this book in your personal library.

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This is my favorite Anderson text, next to Modern Compressible Flow and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Both are 5 star texts.

There are a surprising amount of typos in the text. Just be careful. I found them because I parsed the text carefully during my outlines of the chapter material. You find about 1-2 typos per chapter.

Looking at it in front of me, it's a beast. I did not formally cover the first 445 pages of Hypersonics but I did cover the last half of the book while studying High-Temperature Gas Dynamics. The high-temp sections offer a very good roadmap for learning. All of the topics are brought together very well during this portion of the text.

The information on Hypersonics appeared exhaustive. If it is recommended for hypersonics, I would get it. It covers inviscid AND viscous hypersonic flow in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is high-temp. This is an excellent INTRODUCTORY text for graduate level students. The author does recommend many texts that will allow the reader to delve further into the subject matter.

Even though the expected date of arrival was 5 or 6 weeks ahead, it was shipped less than one week after the request and it arrived to Europe (from US) next week. So the total waiting time was 2 weeks instead of the 5 or 6 weeks it anticipated. I'm happy with he conditions the book arrived, so it was my first purchase in Amazon and I am definetely satisfied.