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Modern Compressible Flow : With Historical Perspective (Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering Ser.)

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This book was an indispensible study tool for my PhD qualifying exam in high temp gas dynamics. Before reading this book I had never had a formal compressible flow class and I think that it covers the fundamental concepts of frozen compressible flow very well. If you don't have an excellent understanding of normal and oblique shocks, expansion fans, nozzle flow, blunt body flow and shock tubes after reading this book, you haven't been paying attention!

Well written classic supersonic theory, but "flavor" of numerical methods is given only : I think a college textbook of that price should give more than just flavor. Classic supersonic theory is not complete and needs to be integrated with other prior classic books (i.e. Ferri, Aerodynamics of supersonic flows). Overally, a little disappointing about the quantity of information given.

As it must be, this book is heavy in math, yet does not treat the subject just from a mathmatics point of view. It is filled with illustrations, photographs and commentary to help explain the subject matter. The only thing that seems to be missing is a math symbols list! It's a good text, well written and worth the money.

Anderson takes a very interesting topic and explains it in a very detailed yet entertaining way. The text isn't boring to read... ! Let me repeat that this engineering text is fun to read. The historical inserts in each section were also quite interesting. For the most part the problems were doable and have some sort of application incorporated in them. Pictures, diagrams and graphs are all very useful and relevent. I was grateful to have this book as my gas dynamics undergaduat book, but I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn, or study compressible flow.

Anderson has a writing style that is easy to read and understand. This in combination with his expertise in the field makes this book readable and yet still detailed. I recommend this book to those who are starting out learning compressible flows, to those who need a stronger foundation on the physical phenomena and derivations, or to those who just think this sounds like fun.

This book is a great graduate or undergraduate text on compressible flow. It covers all the major topics with thorough and elegant proofs of the equations. Anderson is probably one of the best authors who write about extended topics in fluid mechanics (CFD, aerodynamics, compressible flow). I reference this text often.

Clear,concse, written in easy to understand style... would definitely recommend this book for any introductory class on compressible flows.

This book has it all. No matter what your major is...from Aerospace Engineering to Mechanical Engineering, or if you're into thermodynamics, you've gotta get this book!

I really liked the fact that the book came within 3 days. The book came as was described by the seller and thought that it was in good condition. The seller did a great job in shipping the book right away.

Riveting and captivating! Those are the 2 words I will use to describe this book. From the table of contents to the enlightening appendices, this book was simply amazing! I don't know what I would have done without it.