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Comparison of Gas Dynamics Textbooks

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This is comparison of the material which s covered in different text books. If You want to see and to learn what book is suitable for you you can check the different tables to see if can find the right book for you.

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Author Title Publisher Price Pages Field Software
John David Anderson Modern Compressible Flow: With Historical Perspective McGraw-Hill (January 2003) $138.45 750 pp Aeronautical Engineers only Some listing
Cambel, A. B. and Jennings, B. H. Gas Dynamics Mcgraw-Hill $12.95 on biblio.com 413 Undergraduate student in mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering no software and no algoritems
Michel A. Saad Compressible Fluid Flow Prentice-Hall, Inc $116.00 560 Upper undergraduate mechanical, areospace, chemical engineers Some listing
Bar-Meir, Genick Fundamentals of Compressible Flow Bar-Meir, Genick free 352 Undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering included
Ascher H. Shapiro The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Compressible Fluid Flow The Ronald Press Company $113.95 647 All those who are dealing with compressible flow None
George Emanuel analytical fluid mdynamics crc press $94.95 416 not including viscous section that continue to 790 math, no
Elie Carafoli High-Speed Aerodynamics (Aerodinamica Vitezelor Mari ( the roumanian)) Pergamon Press unknown 702 Aeronautic none
Shih-I Pai, Tech, and Shijun Luo Theoretical and Computational Dynamics of a Compressible Flow Science Press $129.95 689 Numerical calculations none
Shih-I Pai Introduction to the Theory of Compressible Flow D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc $14.70 377 Aeronautic none
Schreier, Stefan Compressible Flow Wiley inerschience publication $27.69 577 Mathematical, Aeronautic none
George Turrell Gas Dynamics John Wiley and Sons $150.00 144 Statistical Thermodynamics none
James E. A. John Gas Dynamics Allyn and Bacon $114.00 352 mechanical aerospace and civil engineering none
Zucrow, Maurice J. and Hoff Gas Dynamics John Wiley & Sons, Inc US $155.95 668 pp plus 104 tables and numerical stuff. Mechanical, aeronautical, chemical, civil engineering small snips of software
Chapman, Alan, J. and Walker, William, F. Introductory Gas Dynamics Holt, Rinehard and Winston, Inc $29.32 590 General engineering students who are dealing with fluid mechanics none
Thompson, Philip, A. Compressible-Fluid Dynamics McGrow-Hill Book Company $53.50 plus $8.95 for handling (UPS ground) 664 Exmperimental fluid mechanics none
Owczarek, Jerzy, A. Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics International Textbook company $17.99 648 Mathematical oriented engineer none
S. M. Yahya Fundamentals of Compressible Flow A Halsted Press Book $21.13 358 mechanical, aeronautical, chemical engineering none

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