Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics (Hardcover)

by John David Anderson (Author) "The day is Thursday, February 24, 1949; the pens on the automatic plotting boards at South Station are busy tracking the altitude and course of..." (more)
Key Phrases: equilibrium chemically reacting gas, equilibrium chemically reacting mixture, nonequilibrium nozzle flows, Substituting Eqs, Van Dyke, Van Driest (more...)

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"John Anderson's books are consistently well written. It's an excellent book I'll keep for years to come." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description
Written by best-selling author, John D. Anderson, Jr., this book covers the subject of sustained hypersonic flight, the technology behind the Space Shuttle and other high speed flight vehicles. Anderson's book offers timely and up-to-date information on hypersonic flow-an area that has grown explosively in the last decade.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 690 pages
• Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156347459X
• ISBN-13: 978-1563474590
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,703,905 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent first book for high temp gas dynamics, April 20, 2001

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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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Available from Am. Instit. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, January 21, 2004

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This review is from: Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another hit from john d anderson, October 11, 2000

By	Joel Guerrero (Maracaibo, Zulia Venezuela) - See all my reviews

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.