Isbn: 9798190857740 - illustrated aerospace engineering fundamentals: a visual guide to aerodynamics, propulsion, flight mechanics, spacecraft systems, and structural design for students and engineers (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. CAN YOU FOLLOW THE ALGEBRA OF AN OBLIQUE SHOCK - BUT NOT PICTURE IT?That gap is why aerospace engineering defeats capable students. The physics is genuinely hard and the geometry is genuinely three-dimensional. Miss the picture, and you become a calculator instead of an engineer.THE REAL PROBLEM ISN'T DIFFICULTY. IT'S DISCONNECTION.Standard textbooks quote results instead of deriving them, hide the algebraic steps, and bury figures at the end of chapters - far from the derivations that need them. You integrate the rocket equation without ever seeing the staging arrangement it describes. You memorise a drag polar you cannot picture. Aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, and orbital mechanics arrive as separate subjects that never connect into one vehicle.A COMPLETE, VISUAL PATH THROUGH THE ENTIRE DISCIPLINEThis is a full 16-chapter course in aerospace engineering, built so the mathematics and the mental image arrive together. All 168 figures sit at the exact point in the argument where they are needed - the velocity triangle where the blade element is derived, the theta-beta-M chart where the oblique shock is introduced. Units are SI throughout, with US customary values where industry uses them.Every result is derived, not quoted. Every algebraic step is shown.INSIDE THE BOOK168 technical figures: schematics, cutaways, plots, and geometric constructions249 numbered equations, each indexed by number and derivation section380 practice problems with complete worked answer keys, so wrong answers can be diagnosed44 data tables, 11 reference appendices, and a 163-term glossaryLearning objectives, Engineering Practice sections, and Common Errors sections in all 16 chaptersFULL COVERAGE, CHAPTER BY CHAPTERThe standard atmosphere, the airspeed family, and the space environmentFluid mechanics: conservation laws, Bernoulli, Reynolds and Mach numbers, wind tunnelsAirfoils and wings: circulation, the Kutta condition, thin airfoil and lifting-line theory, sweep, high-lift devicesDrag and boundary layers: transition, separation, the drag polar, parasite drag estimationCompressible flow: normal and oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer expansion, transonic drag rise, hypersonicsAircraft performance, stability, and flight controlAir-breathing propulsion: the Brayton cycle, turbojets, turbofans, propellersRocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft systems engineeringAerospace structures, materials, and manufacturingAvionics, flight control, guidance, and aircraft design synthesis with airworthinessWHAT THIS CHANGES FOR YOUBuild real engineering intuition - recognise an implausible answer, the profession's most valuable habitPrepare for exams with 380 graded problems and diagnosable solutionsRun preliminary calculations without another source: standard atmosphere to 32 km, isentropic and normal-shock tables at Mach 0.05 intervals, Prandtl-Meyer function, material dataSee why a vehicle looks the way it does, because you finally understand how each subject constrains the othersWHO THIS BOOK IS FORAerospace and aeronautical engineering students needing one coherent path, not sixteen disconnected topicsMechanical engineering students taking aerospace electivesInstructors: maps to a two-semester sequence or a single-semester surveyPractising engineers moving into aerospace from adjacent fieldsPilots, flight crew, and technicians wanting the engineering behind the machineSelf-taught learners with first-year calculus and physics THE PHYSICS DOESN Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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