Illustrated Aerospace Engineering Fundamentals : A Visual Guide to Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Flight Mechanics, Spacecraft Systems, and Structural Design for Students and Engineers
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Aug 2026, 2026
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- Title
- Illustrated Aerospace Engineering Fundamentals : A Visual Guide to Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Flight Mechanics, Spacecraft Systems, and Structural Design for Students and Engineers
- Author
- Bastian K Vireth
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Aug 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798190857740
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- 279x216x23 mm
CAN YOU FOLLOW THE ALGEBRA OF AN OBLIQUE SHOCK — BUT NOT PICTURE IT?
That gap is why aerospace engineering defeats capable students. The physics is genuinely hard and the geometry is genuinely three-dimensional. Miss the picture, and you become a calculator instead of an engineer.
THE REAL PROBLEM ISN'T DIFFICULTY. IT'S DISCONNECTION.
Standard textbooks quote results instead of deriving them, hide the algebraic steps, and bury figures at the end of chapters — far from the derivations that need them. You integrate the rocket equation without ever seeing the staging arrangement it describes. You memorise a drag polar you cannot picture. Aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, and orbital mechanics arrive as separate subjects that never connect into one vehicle.
A COMPLETE, VISUAL PATH THROUGH THE ENTIRE DISCIPLINE
This is a full 16-chapter course in aerospace engineering, built so the mathematics and the mental image arrive together. All 168 figures sit at the exact point in the argument where they are needed — the velocity triangle where the blade element is derived, the theta-beta-M chart where the oblique shock is introduced. Units are SI throughout, with US customary values where industry uses them.
Every result is derived, not quoted. Every algebraic step is shown.
INSIDE THE BOOK
- 168 technical figures: schematics, cutaways, plots, and geometric constructions
- 249 numbered equations, each indexed by number and derivation section
- 380 practice problems with complete worked answer keys, so wrong answers can be diagnosed
- 44 data tables, 11 reference appendices, and a 163-term glossary
- Learning objectives, Engineering Practice sections, and Common Errors sections in all 16 chapters
FULL COVERAGE, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER
- The standard atmosphere, the airspeed family, and the space environment
- Fluid mechanics: conservation laws, Bernoulli, Reynolds and Mach numbers, wind tunnels
- Airfoils and wings: circulation, the Kutta condition, thin airfoil and lifting-line theory, sweep, high-lift devices
- Drag and boundary layers: transition, separation, the drag polar, parasite drag estimation
- Compressible flow: normal and oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer expansion, transonic drag rise, hypersonics
- Aircraft performance, stability, and flight control
- Air-breathing propulsion: the Brayton cycle, turbojets, turbofans, propellers
- Rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft systems engineering
- Aerospace structures, materials, and manufacturing
- Avionics, flight control, guidance, and aircraft design synthesis with airworthiness
WHAT THIS CHANGES FOR YOU
- Build real engineering intuition — recognise an implausible answer, the profession's most valuable habit
- Prepare for exams with 380 graded problems and diagnosable solutions
- Run preliminary calculations without another source: standard atmosphere to 32 km, isentropic and normal-shock tables at Mach 0.05 intervals, Prandtl-Meyer function, material data
- See why a vehicle looks the way it does, because you finally understand how each subject constrains the others
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
- Aerospace and aeronautical engineering students needing one coherent path, not sixteen disconnected topics
- Mechanical engineering students taking aerospace electives
- Instructors: maps to a two-semester sequence or a single-semester survey
- Practising engineers moving into aerospace from adjacent fields
- Pilots, flight crew, and technicians wanting the engineering behind the machine
- Self-taught learners with first-year calculus and physics
THE PHYSICS DOESN'T CHANGE. YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF IT CAN.
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