Aerodynamics for Engineering Students

Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Eighth Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and reorganized content to facilitate student learning and includes new examples in many chapters, expanded use of the “aerodynamics around us” boxes to help put the content into proper context for students, and more coverage and use of computational methods like MATLAB.

• Provides contemporary applications and examples that help students see the link between everyday physical examples of aerodynamics and the application of aerodynamic principles to aerodynamic design

• Contains MATLAB-based computational exercises throughout, giving students practice in using industry-standard computational tools

• Includes examples in SI and Imperial units, reflecting the fact that the aerospace industry uses both systems of units

About the Authors

Steven Collicott is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, low-gravity fluid dynamics, optical diagnostics, and applied optics. He has led the proposing, design, and construction of 44 low-gravity parabolic aircraft flight experiments, designed 2 of 6 tests in the successful Capillary Fluids Experiments (CFE) performed in the International Space Station in 2006/07, and advised on CFE modifications for launch in 2010. Professor Collicott was selected by one part of NASA in 2021 to perform a human-tended fluids experiment in the Virgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceship and that flight is pending. He was inducted into Purdue’s “Book of Great Teachers” in 2008, which “honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom.”

Daniel T. Valentine is Professor Emeritus and was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He was also Affiliate Director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program of the New York NASA Space Grant Consortium, a program that provided support for undergraduate and graduate research. His Ph.D. degree is in fluid Mechanics from the Catholic University of America. His BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering are from Rutgers University. Dr. Valentine is also co-author of Aerodynamics for Engineering Students (Butterworth Heinemann).

This site includes:

• Downloadable MATLAB files