Ruey-Hung Chen

Foundations of Gas Dynamics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This reference includes an applications focus on jet and rocket propulsion systems that will be useful for students and engineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 265mm x 181mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781107082700
• ISBN-10: 1107082706
• Artikelnr.: 45467286

Autorenporträt

Ruey-Hung Chen is currently the Robert G. Myers Professor and Head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of New Mexico State University. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor at University of Central Florida from 1993 to 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, Dr Chen served as the Director of the Combustion and Fire Systems Program, as well as the Acting Director of the Thermal Transport Processes Program, from 2014 to 2015, of the National Science Foundation. His research interests include combustion, heat and mass transfer, and compressible flow. Dr Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Properties and kinetic theory of gases
2. Basic equations and thermodynamics of compressible flow
3. Acoustic wave and flow regime
4. One-dimensional isentropic flow, shock, and expansion waves
5. One-dimensional flows in channels
6. One-dimensional flows with friction
7. One-dimensional flows with heat transfer
8. Equations of multidimensional frictionless flow subject to small perturbation
9. Applications of small perturbation theory
10. Method of characteristics for two independent variables
11. Unsteady flow
12. Introduction to inviseid hypersonic flows.