Foundations of Aerodynamics: Bases of Aerodynamic Design

Five stars simply because it is the kind of book you'll hold on to for reference if you're an aerospace engineering student. The most helpful parts are the tables and formulas, which are thorough and clear.

Used this for my Aerodynamics course. The general principles ideas are well described and the examples are fairly helpful, but the derivation of equations from another is left for you to do.

My aerodynamics professor said even though this older version book, it is not afraid to talk about hard to explain subjects.

Pretty good. Cannot be better.

The book is the one that was ordered.However there seems to be some issues with the way it was glued togetherAs it’s ripped in two parts about in the middle of the book and also the pages are ripping themselves apart in some places when you try to open there so you have to be extremely careful and slowly detach them.In summary it seems that the glue is very non elastic and it’s hard to use the book without it ripping itself apart but it’s possible to open the book not fully to a 180 degree angle and use it this way.It seems like the problem might be that the glue is very old or something like that but I don’t really know because I’m not an expert.

A well written introductory book on aerodynamics . Advanced printing technology also adds to the book`s qualities .However , this is not the book for someone who wants to excel at aerodynamics .Like other more recent books ,It aims for medicore level.For example, there are no expansions of advanced topics for the curious student.Also a subject of practical and historical importance like complex potential & conformal mapping is omitted. Summary : If you are new to Fluid Dynamics ,buy it .If you intend to be a real scientist ,you should look for Karamcheti for the incompressible part ,and Shapiro for the compressible part.

Although this book leaves out a lot of the derivation material for the equation of continuity and the Gauss Theorem of Divergence, it gets the point across. There isn't a lot of mindless dribble in which the authors try to translate highly mathematical concepts into words... this is avoided most of the time, to the delight of the student.Some might complain that it doesn't cover such-and-such as much as they want, but remember, the title of the book is "FOUNDATIONS of Aerodynamics." Suck it up!

This is dismal. My class quickly figured out that this is trash and we all bought John Anderson Jr's Aero books instead. Equations and examples are very poorly derived, there isn't enough study material.