Hypersonic Inviscid Flow (Dover Books on Physics) [Paperback]

Wallace D. Hayes (Author), Ronald F. Probstein (Author)

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Publication Date: January 19, 2004 | Series: Dover Books on Physics

This treatment of the branch of fluid mechanics known as hypersonic inviscid flow presents a unified, self-contained view of nonequilibrium effects, body geometries, and similitudes available in hypersonic flow and thin shock layer. Appropriate for graduate-level courses in hypersonic flow theory and courses dealing with compressible flow. 1966 edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (January 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486432815
• ISBN-13: 978-0486432816
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,350,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Text, July 4, 2005

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This review is from: Hypersonic Inviscid Flow (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)

This is a well-regarded, classic, treatment of the principles of hypersonic inviscid, external flow (primarily steady flow). While the book predates current CFD and experiments, it contains fundamental analysis and discussion useful to a scientist/engineer seeking an understanding of hypersonic flows around bodies in order to carry out such calculations and experiments. The clarity of presentation is superb and well-known for it. The authors are distinguished in the community for their large body of research work and have written/edited other texts such as the english translation of The Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena by Zeldovich and Raizer- which is also a Dover book and of exceptional clarity and value and can be considered to be the unsteady-flow complement to the present book.
A reading of Hypersonic Inviscid Flow could be combined with readings of more recent texts or papers that include treatments of experiments/calculations with multi-reaction, chemical- kinetics coupling to the fluid flow, viscous flow consideration and current illustrative examples (for example the books written/edited by J. J. Bertin, amongst others )to get a comprehensive appreciation of the state-of the art in hypersonic flows.
The level of discussion is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate in engineering/physics/applied math, or anyone with experience in undergraduate thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and vector calculus.