 "Advanced Aeronautics Easily Explained" | 2009-03-18 |
| - Reviewed By backyard_flix |
Contents Include:
1 - PROPULSION
Theory of Propulsion * Development of Propulsive Devices * Future Possibilities
2 - MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS OF FLUID FLOW
3 - STEADY ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW OF A PERFECT GAS
4 - BOUNDARY LAYER MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
The viscous boundary layer * The boundary layer equations * Laminar boundary layer solutions * The turbulent boundary layer * Boundary layer heat transfer
5 - ELECTROSTATICS, MAGNETOSTATICS, AND PLASMA
PART 2 - AIR-BREATHING MACHINES
6 - THERMODYNAMICS OF AIRCRAFT JET ENGINES
Thrust & efficiency * thrust equation * engine performance * gas turbine engines * the ramjet * typical engine performance
7 - AEROTHERMODYNAMICS OF INLETS, COMBUSTORS, AND NOZZLES
Subsonic Inlets and diffusers * Flow Patterns * Internal Flow * External Flow * Diffuser Performance * Supersonic Inlets * Combustors * Exhaust Nozzles
8 - JET ENGINE TURBOMACHINES; AXIAL COMPRESSORS
Angular momentum * Single-stage axial compressors * Multistage axial compressors * Instabilities and unsteady flow * Aerodynamics of starting
9 - JET ENGINE TURBOMACHINES: CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS AND AXIAL TURBINES
Centrifugal Compressor * Axial Turbine * Turbine and Compressor Matching * Stress in turbines and compressors
PART 3; ROCKETS
10 - PERFORMANCE OF ROCKET VEHICLES
Static Performance * Vehicle accleration * Chemical Rockets * Electrical Rocket Vehicles * Space Missions
11 - CHEMICAL ROCKETS: AN INTRODUCTION
Characteristics of chemical rockets * Analysis of an ideal rocket
12 - CHEMICAL ROCKETS: PROPELLANTS AND COMBUSTION
Equilibrium composition * Liquid propellants * solid propellants * combustion chambers * combustion instabilities
13 - CHEMICAL ROCKETS; EXPANSION IN NOZZLES
Rocket exhaust Nozzles
14 - CHEMICAL ROCKETS: THRUST CHAMBERS
Rocket heat transfer * Regenerative cooling * Heat Sinks * Convective film coefficient * Radiative Heat Transfer * Rocket Construction * Liquid-Propellant pressurization * Selection of combustion pressure * Ignition * Thrust Vectoring
15 - NUCLEAR ROCKETS
Nuclear reactions as energy sources * Nuclear Reactors * The Solid-Core Nuclear Rocket * Heat Transfer to the Rocket Propellant * Rocket Performance * Advanced Nuclear Rocket Concepts
16 - ELECTRICAL ROCKET PROPULSION
Electrostatic propellant acceleration * Sources of charged particles * Bombardment ionization * Contact ionization * The plane diode * beam optics * Exhaust neutralization * The arcjet * Steady crossed-field accelerators * Pulsed-plasma accelerators * Traveling-wave accelerators" |
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 "bad for beginners and beginner level courses" | 2009-01-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1NNFGPCX921AK |
This was our class text book for the "jet and rocket propulsion" course in our aerospace department when I took the class. I am thoroughly dissatisfied with the book. I think maybe this book is written to provide a general understanding of how things work maybe.. because it had a lot of writing and not much math/equations and even less examples.
We had a big assignment in our class where we had to write a software that gave the temperature and pressure in every single component of a jet engine with afterburner - diffuser, compressor, combuster, burner, bleed air, etc - and this book did not help one bit. It is like the author will spend pages talking about jet engines in essay form, not many equations. And often, such as in the case of the after burner, he will just say it is similar to another component (in this case the combustion chamber), but that is not enough when you are deriving the relations for various kinds of engines.
Maybe this books is great if you already know all the math, and just want to know interesting stuff about engines.. I guess it will compliment your mathematical knowledge and provide you with the bigger picture. But you will have to learn to do the calculations from another book (and you ccant design an engine without doing such calculations).
Basically me and my group had to come up with ALL the equations on our own, the book only proved to be a waste of space on the table. We instead preferred to go back to the text we had used in Thermodynamics class since that was a much better book. |
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| "Best Book For Propulsion. Period." | 2008-04-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A229FVT13IR182 |
| This is just the best book for propulsion. But maybe not for beginners. And may be not for those who just want to score marks in exams by practicing large no. of problems but not caring for real & physical understanding of jet engines. |
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| "The best overall book on propulsion in existence" | 2007-01-10 |
| - Reviewed By gopheralum |
Yeah, that's a big statement, but considering the fact that I own 7 other major propulsion books and refer to this one 10 times more than any of the others, I think it's definitely true. All of the top Aerospace Engineering schools use it, and for good reason.
It is NOT a teach-yourself book. If that is what you are into, then go buy something with more pretty pictures, because some sections take some work to dig into. But if you are Senior level or grad student, then the book will be very good for you. The content in the book is very insightful, and if you go through the book concurrently with a course it is a great help. |
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| "first to second edition, or reader expectations?" | 2006-11-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1YRM3QX7EETCQ |
| amazon listed this book in its periodic email of recommended books. I was shocked to see three stars next to it as an aggregate rating, and I was compelled to write a raving review of it. I own the fist edition of this book (1965!). this is probably one of the best written scientific books I know of. crystal clear and captivating from fundamentals to core advanced topics. anyone who was not there at the time should be fascinated by this book, and astounded to find out just what was already known in the sixties about propulsion, and mortified about how little progress has been made since, in comparison. it is true you will not find as many examples in this book as in some more recent books. in my opinion, the clarity of general explanations (with worked math) more than makes up for this. in many newer books authors seem to throw in confusing new notation, and end up with weaker explanations of core subjects. then, some people expect to use precooked examples for everything. I do not own the second edition of this book. I hope nobody has done it the great disservice of reediting it to any significant extent. |
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 "decent text" | 2006-02-08 |
| - Reviewed By fyrphnx |
| The text is well-written and encompases a great deal about aerospace propulsion. There are few example problems, and the problems at the end of each chapter are worded so poorly it is difficult to know what is wanted without already knowing. Although the text is wonderfully instructive, it is a rather irritating textbook. |
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