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A self-contained textbook for senior or first-year graduate students with a basic knowledge of fluid dynamics and compressible flow at the undergraduate level. Anderson (emeritus, aerospace engineering, U. of Maryland) uses an informal and conversational writing style and is as concerned with sharing his excitement about the field as with transferring facts. The 1989 edition was published by McGraw-Hill. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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• Preface (p. xii)
• 1 Some Preliminary Thoughts (p. 1)
• 1.1 Hypersonic Flight--Some Historical Firsts (p. 2)
• 1.2 Hypersonic Flow--Why is it Important? (p. 4)
• 1.3 Hypersonic Flow--What is it? (p. 13)
• A Thin Shock Layers (p. 14)
• B Entropy Layer (p. 14)
• C Viscous Interaction (p. 15)
• D High-Temperature Flows (p. 17)
• E Low-Density Flow (p. 20)
• F Recapitulation (p. 23)
• 1.4 Hypersonic Flight Paths; the Velocity-Altitude Map (p. 24)
• 1.5 Summary and Outlook (p. 26)
• Problems (p. 28)
• Part I Inviscid Hypersonic Flow
• 2 Hypersonic Shock and Expansion-Wave Relations (p. 31)
• 2.1 Introduction (p. 32)
• 2.2 Basic Hypersonic Shock Relations (p. 33)
• 2.3 Hypersonic Shock Relations in Terms of the Hypersonic Similarity Parameter (p. 38)
• 2.4 Hypersonic Expansion-Wave Relations (p. 40)
• 2.5 Summary (p. 43)
• Problem (p. 44)
• 3 Local Surface Inclination Methods (p. 45)
• 3.1 Introduction (p. 46)
• 3.2 Newtonian Flow (p. 46)
• 3.3 Modified Newtonian Law (p. 53)
• 3.4 Centrifugal Force Corrections to Newtonian Theory (p. 56)
• 3.5 Newtonian Theory--What it Really Means (p. 62)
• 3.6 Tangent-Wedge/Tangent-Cone Methods (p. 66)
• 3.7 Shock-Expansion Method (p. 70)
• 3.8 Summary and Comment (p. 74)
• Problems (p. 75)
• 4 Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Approximate Methods (p. 76)
• 4.1 Introduction (p. 77)
• 4.2 The Governing Equations (p. 77)
• 4.3 Mach Number Independence (p. 78)
• 4.4 The Hypersonic Small-Disturbance Equations (p. 83)
• 4.5 Hypersonic Similarity (p. 89)
• 4.6 Hypersonic Small-Disturbance Theory: Some Results (p. 100)
• 4.7 A Comment on Hypersonic Small-Disturbance Theory (p. 116)
• 4.8 The Hypersonic Equivalence Principle and Blast Wave Theory (p. 117)
• 4.9 Thin Shock-Layer Theory (p. 138)
• 4.10 Summary and Comments (p. 145)
• Problems (p. 147)
• 5 Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Exact Methods (p. 148)
• 5.1 General Thoughts (p. 149)
• 5.2 Method of Characteristics (p. 150)
• 5.3 The Hypersonic Blunt-Body Problem (p. 166)
• 5.4 Correlations for Hypersonic Shock-Wave Shapes (p. 189)
• 5.5 Modern Computational Hypersonics: Additional Solutions of the Euler Equations (p. 192)
• 5.6 Summary, and Comments on the State of the Art (p. 207)
• 5.7 A Final Comment (p. 209)
• Problems (p. 209)
• Part II Viscous Hypersonic Flow
• 6 Viscous Flow: Basic Aspects, Boundary Layer Results, and Aerodynamic Heating (p. 213)
• 6.1 Introduction (p. 214)
• 6.2 Governing Equations for Viscous Flow: The Navier-Stokes Equations (p. 217)
• 6.3 Similarity Parameters and Boundary Conditions (p. 219)
• 6.4 The Boundary Layer Equations for Hypersonic Flow (p. 222)
• 6.5 Hypersonic Boundary Layer Theory: Self-Similar Solutions (p. 228)
• Flat Plate Case (p. 237)
• Stagnation Point Case (p. 250)
• Summary (p. 258)
• 6.6 Nonsimilar Hypersonic Boundary Layers (p. 259)
• Local Similarity Method (p. 260)
• Difference-Differential Method (p. 263)
• Finite-Difference Method (p. 266)
• 6.7 Hypersonic Transition (p. 271)
• 6.8 Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer (p. 280)
• 6.9 The Reference Temperature Method (p. 286)
• 6.10 Hypersonic Aerodynamic Heating: Some Comments and Approximate Results Applied to Hypersonic Vehicles (p. 288)
• 6.11 Entropy Layer Effects on Aerodynamic Heating (p. 295)
• 6.12 Summary (p. 297)
• Problems (p. 300)
• 7 Hypersonic Viscous Interactions (p. 301)
• 7.1 Introduction (p. 302)
• 7.2 Strong and Weak Viscous Interactions: Definition and Description (p. 305)
• 7.3 The Role of x in Hypersonic Viscous Interaction (p. 307)
• 7.4 Other Viscous Interaction Results (p. 315)
• 7.5 Hypersonic Shock-Wave/Boundary Layer Interactions (p. 321)
• 7.6 Summary (p. 332)
• Problems (p. 333)
• 8 Computational Fluid Dynamic Solutions of Hypersonic Viscous Flows (p. 335)
• 8.1 Introduction (p. 336)
• 8.2 Viscous Shock-Layer Technique (p. 337)
• 8.3 Parabolized Navier-Stokes Solutions (p. 344)
• 8.4 Full Navier-Stokes Solutions (p. 353)
• 8.5 Summary and Comments (p. 360)
• Part III High-Temperature Gas Dynamics
• 9 High-Temperature Gas Dynamics: Some Introductory Considerations (p. 363)
• 9.1 The Importance of High-Temperature Flows (p. 364)
• 9.2 The Nature of High-Temperature Flows (p. 372)
• 9.3 Chemical Effects in Air: The Velocity-Altitude Map (p. 373)
• 9.4 Summary and Comments (p. 376)
• 10 Some Aspects of the Thermodynamics of Chemically Reacting Gases (Classical Physical Chemistry) (p. 377)
• 10.1 Introduction: Definition of Real Gases and Perfect Gases (p. 378)
• 10.2 Various Forms of the Perfect Gas Equation of State (p. 379)
• 10.3 Various Descriptions of the Composition of a Gas Mixture (p. 385)
• 10.4 Classification of Gases (p. 387)
• 10.5 The First Law of Thermodynamics (p. 391)
• 10.6 The Second Law of Thermodynamics (p. 395)
• 10.7 The Calculation of Entropy (p. 397)
• 10.8 Gibbs Free Energy, and the Entropy Produced by Chemical Nonequilibrium (p. 399)
• 10.9 Composition of Equilibrium Chemically Reacting Mixtures: The Equilibrium Constant (p. 402)
• 10.10 Heat of Reaction (p. 409)
• 10.11 Summary (p. 410)
• Problems (p. 412)
• 11 Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics (p. 413)
• 11.1 Introduction (p. 414)
• 11.2 Microscopic Description of Gases (p. 415)
• 11.3 Counting the Number of Microstates for a Given Macrostate (p. 423)
• 11.4 The Most Probable Macrostate (p. 425)
• 11.5 The Limiting Case: Boltzmann Distribution (p. 428)
• 11.6 Evaluation of Thermodynamic Properties in Terms of the Partition Function (p. 430)
• 11.7 Evaluation of the Partition Function in Terms of T and V (p. 435)
• 11.8 Practical Evaluation of Thermodynamic Properties for a Single Chemical Species (p. 438)
• 11.9 The Calculation of the Equilibrium Constant (p. 443)
• 11.10 Chemical Equilibrium--Some Further Comments (p. 448)
• 11.11 Calculation of the Equilibrium Composition for High-Temperature Air (p. 449)
• 11.12 Thermodynamic Properties of an Equilibrium Chemically Reacting Gas (p. 453)
• 11.13 Equilibrium Properties of High-Temperature Air (p. 457)
• 11.14 Summary (p. 465)
• Problems (p. 467)
• 12 Elements of Kinetic Theory (p. 468)
• 12.1 Introduction (p. 469)
• 12.2 The Perfect Gas Equation of State (Revisited) (p. 469)
• 12.3 Collision Frequency and Mean Free Path (p. 473)
• 12.4 Velocity and Speed Distribution Functions: Mean Velocities (p. 476)
• 12.5 Summary (p. 480)
• Problems (p. 481)
• 13 Chemical and Vibrational Nonequilibrium (p. 482)
• 13.1 Introduction (p. 483)
• 13.2 Vibrational Nonequilibrium: The Vibrational Rate Equation (p. 484)
• 13.3 Chemical Nonequilibrium: The Chemical Rate Equation (p. 491)
• 13.4 Chemical Nonequilibrium in High-Temperature Air (p. 495)
• 13.5 Chemical Nonequilibrium in H[subscript 2]-Air Mixtures (p. 501)
• 13.6 Summary (p. 501)
• 14 Inviscid High-Temperature Equilibrium Flows (p. 503)
• 14.1 Introduction (p. 504)
• 14.2 Governing Equations for Inviscid High-Temperature Equilibrium Flow (p. 504)
• 14.3 Equilibrium Normal and Oblique Shock-Wave Flows (p. 507)
• 14.4 Equilibrium Quasi-One-Dimensional Nozzle Flows (p. 520)
• 14.5 Frozen and Equilibrium Flows: The Distinction (p. 527)
• 14.6 Equilibrium and Frozen Specific Heats (p. 530)
• 14.7 Equilibrium Speed of Sound (p. 533)
• 14.8 Equilibrium Conical Flow (p. 536)
• 14.9 Equilibrium Blunt-Body Flows (p. 542)
• 14.10 Summary and Comments (p. 546)
• Problems (p. 547)
• 15 Inviscid High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows (p. 548)
• 15.1 Introduction (p. 549)
• 15.2 Governing Equations for Inviscid, Nonequilibrium Flows (p. 550)
• 15.3 Nonequilibrium Normal and Oblique Shock-Wave Flows (p. 555)
• 15.4 Nonequilibrium Quasi-One-Dimensional Nozzle Flows (p. 563)
• 15.5 Nonequilibrium Blunt-Body Flows (p. 571)
• 15.6 Binary Scaling (p. 580)
• 15.7 Nonequilibrium Flow Over Other Shapes: Nonequilibrium Method of Characteristics (p. 583)
• 15.8 Summary and Comments (p. 589)
• Problems (p. 590)
• 16 Kinetic Theory Revisited: Transport Properties in High-Temperature Gases (p. 591)
• 16.1 Introduction (p. 592)
• 16.2 Definition of Transport Phenomena (p. 592)
• 16.3 Transport Coefficients (p. 596)
• 16.4 The Mechanism of Diffusion (p. 600)
• 16.5 Energy Transport by Thermal Conduction and Diffusion: Total Thermal Conductivity (p. 602)
• 16.6 Transport Properties for High-Temperature Air (p. 605)
• 16.7 Summary (p. 609)
• 17 Viscous High-Temperature Flows (p. 610)
• 17.1 Introduction (p. 611)
• 17.2 Governing Equations for Chemically Reacting Viscous Flow (p. 611)
• 17.3 Alternate Forms of the Energy Equation (p. 614)
• 17.4 Boundary Layer Equations for a Chemically Reacting Gas (p. 618)
• 17.5 Boundary Conditions: Catalytic Walls (p. 623)
• 17.6 Boundary Layer Solutions: Stagnation Point Heat Transfer for a Dissociating Gas (p. 626)
• 17.7 Boundary Layer Solutions: Nonsimilar Flows (p. 636)
• 17.8 Viscous Shock Layer (VSL) Solutions to Chemically Reacting Flow (p. 639)
• 17.9 Parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) Solutions to Chemically Reacting Flows (p. 646)
• 17.10 Full Navier-Stokes Solutions to Chemically Reacting Flows (p. 648)
• 17.11 Summary and Comments (p. 652)
• Problems (p. 652)
• 18 Introduction to Radiative Gas Dynamics (p. 653)
• 18.1 Introduction (p. 654)
• 18.2 Definitions of Radiative Transfer in Gases (p. 655)
• 18.3 The Radiative Transfer Equation (p. 657)
• 18.4 Solutions of the Radiative Transfer Equation: Transparent Gas (p. 659)
• 18.5 Solutions of the Radiative Transfer Equation: Absorbing Gas (p. 662)
• 18.6 Solutions of the Radiative Transfer Equation: Emitting and Absorbing Gas (p. 664)
• 18.7 Radiating Flowfields: Sample Results (p. 667)
• 18.8 Summary (p. 674)
• Problems (p. 674)
• Postface (p. 676)
• References (p. 677)
• Index (p. 687)

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