The response to the first three editions of Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective, from students, faculty, and practicing professionals has been overwhelmingly favorable. Therefore, this new edition preserves much of this successful content while adding important new components. It preserves the author’s informal writing style that talks to the reader, that gains the readers’ interest, and makes the study of compressible flow an enjoyable experience. Moreover, it blends the classical nature of the subject with modern aspects of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and high temperature gas dynamics so important to modern applications of compressible flow. In short, this book is a unique teaching and learning experience.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Compressible Flow- Some History and Introductory Thoughts

Chapter 2 Integral Forms of the Conservation Equations for Inviscid Flows

Chapter 3 One-Dimensional Flow

Chapter 4 Oblique Shock and Expansion Waves

Chapter 5 Quasi-One-Dimensional Flow

Chapter 6 Differential Conservation Equations for Inviscid Flows

Chapter 7 Unsteady Wave Motion

Chapter 8 General Conservation Equations Revisited: Velocity Potential Equation

Chapter 9 Linearized Flow

Chapter 10 Conical Flow

Chapter 11 Numerical Techniques for Steady Supersonic Flow

Chapter 12 The Time-Marching Technique: With Application to Supersonic Blunt Bodies and Nozzles

Chapter 13 Three-Dimensional Flow

Chapter 14 Transonic Flow

Chapter 15 Hypersonic Flow

Chapter 16 Properties of High-Temperature Gases

Chapter 17 High-Temperature Flows: Basic Examples

About the Author

John D. Anderson, Jr., was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 1937. He attended the University of Florida, graduating in 1959 with high honors and a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering Degree. From 1959 to 1962, he was a Lieutenant and Task Scientist at the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. From 1962 to 1966, he attended the Ohio State University under the National Science Foundation and NASA Fellowships, graduating with a PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. In 1966, he joined the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory as Chief of the Hypersonics Group. In 1973, he became Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, and since 1980 has been Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. In 1982, he was designated a Distinguished Scholar/Teacher by the University. During 1986–1987, while on sabbatical from the University, Dr. Anderson occupied the Charles Lindbergh Chair at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He continued with the Air and Space Museum one day each week as their Special Assistant for Aerodynamics, doing research and writing on the History of Aerodynamics. In addition to his position as Professor of Aerospace Engineering, in 1993, he was made a full faculty member of the Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and in 1996 an affiliate member of the History Department at the University of Maryland. In 1996, he became the Glenn L. Martin Distinguished Professor for Education in Aerospace Engineering. In 1999, he retired from the University of Maryland and was appointed Professor Emeritus. He is currently the Curator for Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.