New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1959. — 544 p. Classics of wing aerodynamics, the most cited work of foreign articles. The significance of wing-section characteristics Symbols. The Forces on wings. effect of aspect ratio. application of section data to monoplane wings: basic concepts of lifting-line theory. solutions for linear lift curves, generalized solution....
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. — 470 p. — (Computers). More than 100 illustrations and a five-program software package are combined in "Computational Flight Dynamics, a detailed instructional kit illustrating digital solutions to problems in aircraft dynamic stability, control, and flight performance. Busy aerospace engineers, scientists, and graduate...
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2002, 413 p. — ISBN10: 0-521-80992-4. From the first machines that flew for just minutes at a time to today’s sophisticated aircraft, stability and control have always been crucial considerations. Following up their successful first edition, Malcolm Abzug and Eugene Larrabee forge through to the present day with their informal history...
Butterworth Heinemann, 2001. — 253 p. — ISBN 0 7506 5133 4. The key developments in modern flight dynamics were founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Russian and German scientists and engineers. These papers are presented in English for the first time, many of which have never been translated. A survey of the basic principles of modern aerodynamics. From antiquity to...
Authors not specified, 1945 Edition. — Washington: Goverment Office Printing, 1945. — 237 p. Starting with the basic principles of propeller operation, this book discusses the four types of propellers used today in naval aviation. There is information on the two-position controllable pitch propeller, the constant speed propeller, the hydromatic quick-feathering propeller, and...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston, 2015. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-033836-2. Back-action of aerodynamics onto structures such as wings cause vibrations and may resonantly couple to them, thus causing instabilities (flutter) and endangering the whole structure. By careful choices of geometry, materials and damping mechanisms, hazardous effects on wind engines, planes,...
6th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 1154 p. — ISBN: 978-1-259-12991-9. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics is meant to be read. The writing style is intentionally conversational in order to make the book easier to read. The book is designed to talk to the reader; in part to be a self-teaching instrument. Learning objectives have been added to each chapter to reflect what is...
3rd Edition. — McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001. — 913 p. — ISBN13: 9780072373356; ISBN10: 0072373350. This book is for students-to be read, understood, and enjoyed. It is consciously written in a clear, informal, and direct style designed to talk to the reader and to gain his or her immediate interest in the challenging and yet beautiful discipline of aerodynamics. The...
5th ed. — New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. — XXIV, 1106 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-07-339810-5; ISBN10: 0-07-339810-1. In keeping with its bestselling previous editions, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition by John Anderson, offers the most readable, interesting, and up-to-date overview of aerodynamics to be found in any text. The classic organization of the text has been preserved,...
Dover Publications, New York, 1974. — 437 p. — e-ISBN13: 978-0-486-16653-7. This classic by a Stanford University educator and a pioneer of aerospace engineering introduces the complex process of designing atmospheric flight vehicles. An exploration of virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics and dynamics,...
Dover Publications, New York, 1965, 304 p. — ISBN: 0486648990. Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering Amid a welter of topics on the aeronautical engineering curriculum-hypersonic fluid mechanics, heat transfer, nonequilibrium phenomena, etc.-this concise text stands out as a rigorous, classroom-tested treatment of classical aerodynamic theory-indispensable background for...
Dodo Press, 2006, 203 p. — ISBN: 1406507725. A unique book in which the principles of aerodynamics present themselves. Detailed descriptions are aided by illustrations and diagrams. The elementary principles air their grievances The principles, having settled their differences, finish the job The great test iv. Cross country Flight Stability and control Rigging Propellers...
4 edition. Pearson Education Limited, 1989, 2010. 375 p. ISBN: 0273730983, 978-0-273-73098-9. Aircraft Flight provides accurate physical, rather than mathematical, descriptions of the principles of aircraft flight. This popular text gives mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering students a useful introduction to the subject. The fourth edition has been updated to...
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., Washington, 1994, 608 p. — ISBN: 1563470365. The first four chapters present general information characterizing hypersonic flows, discuss numerical formulations of varying degrees of rigor in computational fluid dynamics codes, and show the strengths and limitations of the various types of hypersonic experimentation....
6th Edition. — Pearson Education Limited, 2014. 832 p. — ISBN10: 0-273-79327-6, ISBN13: 978-0-273-79327-4. For junior/senior and graduate-level courses in Aerodynamics, Mechanical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering Revised to reflect the technological advances and modern application in Aerodynamics, the Sixth Edition of Aerodynamics for Engineers merges fundamental fluid...
Wiley, Hoboken, 2023. — 207 p. — ISBN: 9781119779971. An accessible and hands-on textbook filled with chapter objectives, examples, practice problems, sample tests, and an online aero-calculator. In Elements of Aerodynamics, Professor Oscar Biblarz delivers a concise and fundamentals-oriented approach to aerodynamics suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level students....
Boiffier J-L. The Dynamics of Flight - The Equations, John Wiley & Sons 1998, 353 p. Presentation General equations Frames Frame definitions Definition of angles between frames Angular relationships Kinematics The fundamental relationships of kinematics Angular and linear velocities Relationship between angles and velocities Kinematic equations Equations Fundamental equations...
Second Edition. — New York, London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1939. — 450 p. Since the first presentation of this book, it has seemed desirable to include additional material which will be of value to a student and which properly merits place in an elementary textbook. For this reason in the present edition there has been added a description of N.A.C.A....
3rd Edition. — AIAA, Reston, 2015. — 708 p. — ISBN-13 978-1624103278. The most exciting moment for an aeronautical engineer is when his or her design becomes a working aircraft, the endpoint of a journey that begins in the classroom. A required textbook for all cadets at the United States Air Force Academy, Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective shows students the...
2nd Edition. AIAA, Reston, 2004. — 476 p. — ISBN: 1-56347-701-7. A textbook offering a resource for students attempting to understand the methods & thought processes involved in designing aircraft. It includes a working knowledge of how an aircraft is shaped & optimized to perform specific missions by countless design decisions.
Oxford University Press, 2009, 408 p. — ISBN: 0199552681. In the high energy gas flows, associating high velocities and high temperatures, physical and chemical processes such as molecular vibrational excitation, dissociation, ionisation or various reactions take palce and deeply influence the structure of the flows. The characteristic times of these processes have the same...
Springer Wien Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2013, VII, 448 p. 95 illus. — ISBN: 978-3-7091-1457-5, ISBN: 978-3-7091-1458-2 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1458-2. Contains both fundamental concepts and applications State-of-the-art results in the fields of jet noise, noise source identification, boundary layer noise Includes many practical examples and references to...
Spanish Edition. — Paraninfo, 2000. 610 p. — ISBN: 84-283-2640-1. Descripción: Manual de aerodinámica y aeronáutica que contiene: características de la atmósfera; conceptos elementales de dinámica de fluidos; origen de las fuerzas aerodinámicas; influencia de la forma en planta del ala; dispositivos hipersustentadores; actuaciones de los aviones con motor de émbolo; actuaciones...
Springer, 1999. — 396 p. — ISBN13: 978-3540661818. This book describes an engineering approach based on interactive boundary-layer and stability-transition theories, both developed by the author, for calculating aerodynamic flows. This is the first time these powerful computational techniques have been published in book form.
Cebeci T., Platzer M., Chen H., Chang K., Shao J. — Springer, 2005. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 3540229329. The standard textbooks on aerodynamics usually omit any discussion of un steady aerodynamics or, at most, consider it only in a single chapter, based on two justifications. The first is that unsteady aerodynamics should be regarded as a specialized subject required "only" in...
New York: Springer, 1982. — 618 p. — ISBN: 978-3-662-12612-7. This volume contains revised and edited forms of papers presented at the Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, held at the California State University from 19 to 21 January 1981. The Symposium was organized to bring together leading research workers in those aspects of aerodynamic flows...
New York: Springer, 1984. — 412 p. — ISBN: 978-3-662-09016-9. The Second Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows was held at California State University, Long Beach, from 17 to 20 January 1983. Forty-eight papers were presented, including Keynote Lec tures by A. M. 0. Smith and J. N. Nielsen, in ten technical sessions which were supplemented and...
New York: Springer, 1986. — 486 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4612-9362-0. The Third Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, like its immediate predecessor, was organized with emphasis on the calculation of flows relevant to aircraft, ships, and missiles. Fifty-five papers and 20 brief communications were presented at the Symposium, which was held at the...
Springer, New York, 1990. — ISBN: 978-3-662-02645-8. — 414 p. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Fourth Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, which was held at the California State University, Long Beach, from 16-19 January 1989. It includes the Stewartson Memorial Lecture of Professor J. H. Whitelaw, and is divided into...
Woodhead Publishing in Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, UK, 2015, — 354 p. — ISBN10: 1782421858. Whirl flutter is the aeroelastic phenomenon caused by the coupling of aircraft propeller aerodynamic forces and the gyroscopic forces of the rotating masses (propeller, gas turbine engine rotor). It may occur on the turboprop, tilt-prop-rotor or rotorcraft aircraft structures....
Dordrecht; Heidelberg; New York; London: Springer, 2015. — XXI, 620 p. — ISBN: 978-94-017-9824-2; ISBN: 978-94-017-9825-9 (eBook). This book covers classical and modern aerodynamics, theories and related numerical methods, for senior and first-year graduate engineering students, including: The classical potential (incompressible) flow theories for low speed aerodynamics of thin...
Dordrecht; Heidelberg; New York; London: Springer, 2015. — XXI, 620 p. — ISBN: 978-94-017-9824-2; ISBN: 978-94-017-9825-9 (eBook). This book covers classical and modern aerodynamics, theories and related numerical methods, for senior and first-year graduate engineering students, including: The classical potential (incompressible) flow theories for low speed aerodynamics of thin...
Scrivener Publishing, Beverly, USA, 2019. — 439 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-58056-0. Just when classic subject areas seem understood, the author, a Caltech, M.I.T. and Boeing trained aerodynamicist, raises profound questions over traditional formulations. Can shear flows be rigorously modeled using simpler “potential-like” methods versus Euler equation approaches? Why not solve...
Pitman, 1975 (1980 reprint for Arnold-Heinemann, India. — xiii + 610 p. This book is the product of over seven years of teaching aerodynamics to officer cadets and student officers at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell. The courses I taught there varied widely in both scope and in depth. The majority of the students were training to be pilots. For those following the general...
Second Edition. — Elsevier, 2007. — 491 p. — ISBN: 0750669276. The study of flight dynamics requires a thorough understanding of the theory of the stability and control of aircraft, an appreciation of flight control systems and a comprehensive grounding in the theory of automatic control. Flight Dynamics provides all three in an accessible and student focussed text. Written for...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2025. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-70906-2. Introduction to Aeroelasticity introduces the classical topics of aeroelasticity, beginning with elastic structural modeling and the way that wing and tail structures. Can diverge and deform due to aerodynamic, inertial, and control-surface deflections. Flutter is then described, first with an airfoil example with...
CRC Press, 2017. — 485 p. — ISBN13: 978149804014 Experimental Aerodynamics provides an up to date study of this key area of aeronautical engineering. The field has undergone significant evolution with the development of 3D techniques, data processing methods, and the conjugation of simultaneous measurements of multiple quantities. Written for undergraduate and graduate students...
Charles E. Dole; James E. Lewis; Joseph R. Badick; Brian A. Johnson 3rd. — Wiley-Interscience (P&T), 2017. — 363 p. — ISBN: 9781119233404 The pilot's guide to aeronautics and the complex forces of flight Flight Theory and Aerodynamics is the essential pilot's guide to the physics of flight, designed specifically for those with limited engineering experience. From the basics of...
Springer, 2004. - 580 p. The book provides a solid and unitary mathematical foundation of the basic and advanced principles of aerodynamics. The densities of the fundamental solutions are determined from singular integral equations. The fundamental solutions method in aerodynamics was considered for the first time and used by the author in over 30 papers published in...
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014, 279 p. — ISBN: 0262526441. This book offers a general overview of the physics, concepts, theories, and models underlying the discipline of aerodynamics. A particular focus is the technique of velocity field representation and modeling via source and vorticity fields and via their sheet, filament, or point-singularity idealizations....
Translated from the French by Ledeboer John H. — London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912. — 231 p. An aeroplane is an aerial machine sustained in the air by the support derived from its forward motion, which, therefore, is essential for it to remain aloft. To produce this sustaining force advantage is taken of the established fact that the reaction of...
Third Impression. — Edinburgh: Longmans Green And Company, 1918. — 211 p. Formula and equations are necessary evils; they represent, as it were, the shorthand of the mathematician and the engineer, forming as they do the simplest and most convenient method of expressing certain relations between facts and phenomena which appear complicated when dressed in everyday garb....
Bernhard Eisfeld, Holger Barnewitz, Willy Fritz, Frank Thiele - Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2013. XII, 339 p. 219 illus. — ISBN: 978-3-642-36184-5, e-ISBN: 978-3-642-36185-2 – (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Vol. 122). Recent advances in numerical aerodynamics. Report of the German research initiative MUNA which aimed to...
Wiley, 1972. — 579 p. — ISBN 0486445224. Geared toward upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, this text concerns the dynamics of atmospheric flight, with focus on airplane stability and control. An extensive set of numerical examples covers STOL airplanes, subsonic jet transports, hypersonic flight, stability augmentation, and wind and density...
Dover Publications, Inc., 2000. X, 581 p. — ISBN: 0-486-44522-4 (pbk.). Geared toward upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, this text concerns the dynamics of atmospheric flight, with focus on airplane stability and control. An extensive set of numerical examples covers STOL airplanes, subsonic jet transports, hypersonic flight, stability...
3rd edition. — Wiley, 1996, 395 p. — ISBN10: 0471034185, ISBN13: 9780471034186. The first edition of this book appeared in 1959-indeed before most students reading this were born. It was well received both by students and practicing aeronautical engineers of that era. The pace of development in aerospace engineering during the decade that followed was extremely rapid, and this...
Springer, 2005. — 313 p. — ISBN: 3-540-24383-6, 978-3-540-24383-0 The aerospace industry increasingly relies on advanced numerical simulation tools in the early design phase. This volume provides the results of a German initiative which combines many of the CFD development activities from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), universities, and aircraft industry. Numerical...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 664 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02400-7. This book deals with aircraft flight performance. It focuses on commercial aircraft but also considers examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. The book covers...
Elsevier, 2006. — ISBN: 0750668172. Filippone presents an accurate, detailed, well structured book that guides the reader through nearly every aspect of aircraft performance. The performance of fixed wing, rotary wing and V/STOL aircraft is considered, with the book covering both beginner and advanced topics with comprehensive derivations throughout. Unusually for technical...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80582-7 (Hardback). In the rapidly advancing field of flight aerodynamics, it is important for students to completely master the fundamentals. This text, written by renowned experts, clearly presents the basic concepts of underlying aerodynamic prediction methodology. These concepts are closely linked to physical...
Canada: University of Toronto, 1992. - 163 p. Three different methods of determining the profile drag/lift ratio are considered: the SBAC method, a solidity correction method, and a new semi-empirical method. Of these, the new semi-empirical method provides profile drag/lift ratios that result in substantially more accurate optimum efficiency predictions, for both aircraft and...
Philadelphia: Woodhead Publishing, 2013. — XXII, 138 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85709-466-7. Unmanned air vehicles are becoming increasingly popular alternatives for private applications, such as fire fighting, search and rescue, atmospheric data collection and crop surveys. Among these vehicles are avian inspired, flapping wing designs that are both safe to operate near humans and can...
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. VIII, 114 p. - ISBN: 978-1-84821-448-4. In the field of aeronautical dynamics, this book offers readers a design tool which enables them to solve the different problems that can occur during the planning stage of a private project. The authors present a system for the modeling, design and calculation of the flying qualities of...
Wiley, 1984. — 290 p. — ISBN: 0-471-07885-9. A self-contained in-depth treatment of aircraft performance, designed for a first course in aeronautical or aerospace engineering for undergraduate engineers. Provides an understanding of why conventional aircraft look and fly the way they do. This well written text covers turbofan and turboprop propulsion, subjects often avoided in...
Springer, 2006. – 604 p. — ISBN10: 1-4020-4267-1; ISBN13: 978-1-4020-4267-6. Flutter . Flutter Boundaries for Pairs of Low. Pressure Turbine Blades. Roque Corral, Nélida Cerezal, and Cárlos Vasco . Influence of a Vibration Amplitude Distribution on the Aerodynamic. Stability of a Low-Pressure Turbine Sectored Vane. Olga V. Chernysheva, Torsten H. Fransson, Robert E. Kielb, and...
Springer Verlag, New York, 1993. — 524 p. — ISBN13: 978-I -46 13-8344-4. Computational aeroacoustics is rapidly emerging as an essential element in the study of aerodynamic sound. As with all emerging technologies, it is paramount that various opportunities are assesed and achievable goals for this new technology are established. Essential to this process is the identification...
Reston, Virginia: AIAA, 2006. — 215 p. — ISBN: 1-56347-793-9. We are pleased to present Applied Cartesian Tensors for Aerospace Simulations by David M. Henderson. This compact volume covers the use of tensors in the analysis of navigation, guidance, and control of aerospace vehicles. There are four chapters and four appendices, and the book is more than 200 p. long. David...
Springer, 2009. — 512 p. — ISBN:3540899731. This volume addresses selected aerothermodynamic design problems for three vehicle classes: winged reentry, non-winged reentry, and airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles. Following an introductory chapter, the book presents the basics of flight trajectory mechanics, giving the aerothermodynamicist an understanding of the principal...
Springer, 2014. — XIV, 391 p. 134 illus., 19 illus. in color. — ISBN 978-3-642-41377-3, ISBN 978-3-642-41378-0. Presents the basic principles and theoretical foundations of three-dimensional attached viscous flows. Focuses on properties of three-dimensional viscous flow. Past realistic shapes of finite extension with a flight speed range from civil air transport vehicles up to...
Andrews UK Limited, 2015. – 203 p. Classical aerodynamics is a compulsory study subject for pilots at all levels of experience. Propeller Aerodynamics is a subset of this fascinating subject. Propellers have their unique aerodynamic terminology, forces and handling requirements, knowledge of which all pilots must be aware of to safely handle the aircraft they are flying....
Published by the Author, Bakersfield, CA, 1965. 456 p. Drag polars, data, and curves presented in easy format. Coefficients of drag for most shapes can be easily estimated for use in the drag equation and estimating aerodynamic drag loads. General information Skin-friction drag Pressure drag Wind forces on structures Surface irregularities Drag of streamline shapes Drag due to...
Second Edition. — Published by Mrs.LiseLotte A. Hoerner, Brick Town, NJ, USA, 1985. — 507 p. — ISBN13: 978-9998831636; ISBN10: 9998831636. The book represents an extensive compendium of basic engineering data on the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic characteristics of the chief types of lifting surfaces used in aircraft and marine craft. The topics covered include: the mechanism of...
Aircraft Designs, California, 1991. — ASIN: B0006P6ATY. — 170 p. System Requirements. Analysis Procedure. Finite Element Modeling. Verification of the Finite Element Model. Ground Vibration Survey. Flutter Analysis Using SAF . Finite Element Analysis Using NISA. Preparing Input Data for SAF.. Geometric Data. Modal Data. Doublet-Lattice Elements. Mass Matrix . SAF Input File....
Fifth Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. — 590 p. Already established as the leading course text on aerodynamics, Aerodynamics for Engineering Students has been revised to include the latest developments in flow control and boundary layers, and their influence on modern wing design, as well as introducing recent advances in the understanding of fundamental fluid dynamics....
6th edition. — Elsevier, Ltd., 2013. XVI, 724 p. — ISBN: 978-0-08-096632-8 (pbk.). Key Features NEW: Expanded coverage of compressible flow NEW: MatLAB(r) exercises throughout, to give students practice is using industry-standard computational tools. m-files available for download from companion website. NEW: contemporary applications and examples help students see the link...
University of Southern California, 1965. — 434 p. The purpose of this textbook is to present the elements of applied aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering which relate directly to the problems of flying operations. All Naval Aviators possess a natural interest in the basic aerodynamic factors which affect the performance of all aircraft. Due to the increasing complexity of...
Alpha Books, Macmillan USA, Inc., Indianapolis, 2000, 344 p. — ISBN10: 0028638859, ISBN13: 9780028638850. In this guide, the authors trace the progress of aviation from the classic age to the fastest and largest of modern airliners presently operating. Opening the cockpit door they offer an insight into how pilots do their job. Taking to the Sky: The History of Flight The...
2nd ed. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. — XVI, 613 p. — (Cambridge Aerospace Series) — ISBN: 978-0-521-66219-2 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-521-66552-0 (Paperback). Low-speed aerodynamics is important in the design and operation of aircraft flying at low Mach number, and ground and marine vehicles. This text offers a modern treatment of both the theory of inviscid,...
Eleventh Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006, 500 p., ISBN: 1405823593 9781405823593 This book is an ideal introduction to the principles of flight. The book is an excellent text for student pilots, students of aeronautical and aerospace engineering, aircraft engineering apprentices and anyone who is interested in aircraft. The book commences with a summary of the relevant aspects of...
USA: AIAA, 2003. - 460 p. Monograph. AIAA Publishing. AIAA Educational Series. USA.2003. ISBN: 1-56347-564-2. 460 p. Carrying out flight tests of aircraft. Methods for Reducing Data Uncertainty in Flight Test Data. Airspeed Systems Theory and Calibration. Stall Speed Measurement. Determination of Engine Power in Flight. Propeller Theory. Jet Thrust Measurement in Flight. Level...
2nd Edition. — Wiley, 2018. — 584 p. — (Aerospace Series). — ISBN: 978-1119157823. This concise yet comprehensive book on space flight dynamics addresses all phases of a space mission: getting to space (launch trajectories), satellite motion in space (orbital motion, orbit transfers, attitude dynamics), and returning from space (entry flight mechanics). It focuses on orbital...
Results of the Closing Symposium of the German Research Initiative ComFliTe, Braunschweig, Germany, June 11th-12th, 2012. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. VIII, 289 p. 192 illus., 92 illus. in color. — ISBN: 978-3-642-38876-7, ISBN: 978-3-642-38877-4 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-38877-4. — (Series: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Vol....
AlAA Education Series, Virginia, 2012. — XVII, 583 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60086-922-8. Dietrich Kuchemann's The Aerodynamic Design of Aircraft is as relevant and as forward looking today as it was when it was first published in 1978. It comprises the philosophy and life's work of a unique and visionary intellect. Based upon material taught in a course at Imperial College London, the...
John Wiley Sons, 1998. — 586 p. — ISBN: 0-471-12919-4. Like previous editions, this text has retained it's excellent coverage of basic concepts and broad coverage of the major aspects of aerodynamics. Numerical techniques are described for computing invicid incompressible flow about airfoils and finite wings. Plus, the design of devices and aircraft components that were...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. 650 p. — ISBN 13 978-0-521-88516-4, ISBN 13 978-0-511-67785-4. Aircraft Design explores the conceptual phase of a fixed-wing aircraft design project. Designing an aircraft is a complex, multifaceted process that embraces many technical challenges in a multidisciplinary environment. By definition, the topic requires intelligent use of...
Wiley, New Jersey, 2019. — ISBN: 9781119500285. — 1053 p. This book introduces readers to aircraft design, placing great emphasis on industrial practice. It includes worked out design examples for several different classes of aircraft, including Learjet 45, Tucano Turboprop Trainer, BAe Hawk and Airbus A320. It considers performance substantiation and compliance to...
Imperial College Press, London, 2015. — 444 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78326-628-9. Computer simulations is a fundamental tool of the design process in many engineering disciplines including aerospace engineering. However, although high-fidelity numerical models are accurate, they can be computationally expensive with evaluation time for a single design as long as hours, days or even...
InTeO, 2012. — 202 p. This Book covers a small part of the numerous cases of stationary and non stationary aerodynamics; wave generation and propagation; wind energy; flow control techniques and, also, sports aerodynamics. It's not an undergraduate text but is thought to be useful for those teachers and/or researchers which work in the several branches of applied aerodynamics...
Center for Turbulence Research, Proceedings of the Summer Program, 1998. — P. 267-286. Recent LES suggested that the turbulence fluctuation in the wall-normal direction v 2 – f plays an important role in the evolution of transition. This motivates the use of v 2 − f model for turbomachinery flows, in which different types of transition co-exist. An `ad hoc'...
London: Springer, 1999. — 210 p. — ISBN 978-1-4471-1215-0. The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new...
Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015. — 129 p. — ISBN 978-3-659-67969-8. Nature of aero-elasticity. Different types of wings. Wing modeling. Historical background. Aero-elastic analysis The Finite Element Method. Pre-processing. Processing. Post-processing. Model validation and convergence analysis . Wing Finite Element Modeling. Element Mapping. Shell as an assembly...
Wiley, Hoboken, 2017. — 766 p. — ISBN: 9781118928684. Advanced UAV aerodynamics, flight stability and control: Novel concepts, theory and applications presents emerging aerospace technologies in the rapidly growing field of unmanned aircraft engineering. Leading scientists, researchers and inventors describe the findings and innovations accomplished in current research programs...
Mercury Learning & Information, 2018. — 350 p. — ISBN: 1683922158, 9781683922155. This book is intended for aviators or individuals who are interested in application of mathematics in aviation. A reader new to the field working towards their recreational, private, or commercial license and one already flying a single piston or multi-engine aircraft will both benefit from the...
New York: Academic Press, 1967. — 328 p. Introduction to V/STOL concepts. Theoretical and applied aerodynamics. Aerodynamics of the wing. The aerodynamics of propellers. Aerodynamics of the helicopter. Unpowered flaps. The jet flap. Wings and propellers separately and in combination at high angles of attack. Ducted propeller and fan-in-wing configurations. Boundary layer...
John Wiley & Sons, 1979. 652 p. — ISBN10: 0471030325, ISBN13: 978-0471030324. A single, comprehensive, in-depth treatment of both basic, and applied modern aerodynamics. Covers the fluid mechanics and aerodynamics of incompressible and compressible flows, with particular attention to the prediction of lift and drag characteristics of airfoils and wings and complete airplane...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013. — XXV, 550 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-96751-4. A real understanding of aerodynamics must go beyond mastering the mathematical formalism of the theories and come to grips with the physical cause-and-effect relationships that the theories represent. In addition to the math, which applies most directly at the local level, intuitive physical interpretations...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2013. — 492 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-96751-4. Much-needed, fresh approach that brings a greater insight into the physical understanding of aerodynamics Based on the author’s decades of industrial experience with Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers to gain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics. Relying on clear physical...
Princeton University Press, 1973, 784 p. — ISBN10: 0691080836, ISBN13: 9780691080833. Aeronautical engineers concerned with the analysis of aircraft dynamics and the synthesis of aircraft flight control systems will find an indispensable tool in this analytical treatment of the subject. Approaching these two fields with the conviction that an understanding of either one can...
Springer, 2018. — 118 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-62135-7. This book deals with numerical simulations and computations of the turbulent flow around high-lift configurations commonly used in aircraft. It is devoted to the Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) method using full Navier-Stokes solvers typically used in the simulation of high-lift configuration. With the increase of...
NASA, Washington DC, 2013. — 207 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62683-012-7. Origins and Design Development Flight Testing Follow-On Research and Future Applications Program Management and Direction Research Results and Lessons Learned
New York: Dover, 1990. — 450 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-486-80146-9. This classic text analyzes the trajectories of aircraft, missiles, satellites, and spaceships subjected to uniform and central gravitational forces, aerodynamic forces, and thrust. Suitable for students and professionals in aerodynamic engineering, the treatment illustrates the wealth of related problems in applied...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2010. — 292 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–954690–9. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and optimal shape design (OSD) are of practical importance for many engineering applications - the aeronautic, automobile, and nuclear industries are all major users of these technologies. Giving the state of the art in shape optimization for an extended range of...
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000. 464 p. — (Technology & Engineering). The book reviews all approaches to calculate aerodynamics, allowing engineers to see the pros and cons of each approach, setting the stage for a semiempirical approach. It contains many approximate aerodynamic methods, bringing together in a single text both linearized and nonlinear...
VKI, Belgium, 1999. — 33 p. A description of the micro-air vehicle (MAV) concept and design requirements is presented. These vehicles are very small and therefore operate at chord Reynolds numbers below 20000 where very little data is available on the performance of lifting surfaces, i.e., airfoils and low aspect-ratio wings. This paper presents the results of a continuing...
John Wiley & Sons, 2012. — XIV, 706 p. — ISBN 978-0-470-62667-2. Napolitano′s Aircraft Dynamics is designed to help readers extrapolate from low level formulas, equations, and details to high level comprehensive views of the main concepts. The text also helps readers with fundamental skills of learning the "basic modeling" of the aircraft aerodynamics and dynamics. The main...
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1989. — 284 p. — ISBN: 0-07-046218-6. The goal of this book is to present an integrated treatment of the basic elements of aircraft stability, flight control, and autopilot design. An understanding of flight stability and control played an important role in the ultimate success of the earliest aircraft designs. In later years the design of...
Ashgate, 2014, 158 p., ISBN: 1409467937 Human Factors in Defence This book provides a detailed general overview of the human factors and performance limitations associated with flying fast jets, integrating all the latest available research literature on the demanding operational tasks faced by such pilots and aircrews. As such, it has a strong military focus, dealing with...
Heidelberg: Springer, 2018. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-8720-2. This book focuses on flight vehicles and their navigational systems, discussing different forms of flight structures and their control systems, from fixed wings to rotary crafts. It explores laboratory testing of flight navigational sensors, such as the magnetic, acceleration and Global Positioning System (GPS)...
Delft University Press, 2009. — 656 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58603-970-7. Most textbooks on aerodynamic design of the aircraft can be grouped either in a class of books where the emphasis is on fluid dynamics, with particular attention to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), or in a class of books mainly useful for preliminary design, where relations are presented between design...
Reston, United States: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 1998. — 766 p. — (Education Series). — ISBN10: 1624102743. — ISBN13: 9781624102745. Performance, Stability, Dynamics and Control of Airplanes provides a comprehensive and integrated overview of several interrelated disciplines involving airplane performance. It contains all necessary background material on...
Wiley, New York, 1949. 504 p. — ISBN10: 047168046X, ISBN13: 9780471680468. The purpose of this book is to present those elements of applied aerodynamics that bear directly on the problem of airplane design. Following conventional, aeronautical engineering practice, we have divided the book into two major parts, the first dealing with the problems of airplane design for...
2nd Edition. — London: The English Universities Press LTD, 1947. — 536 p. The present edition is enlarged to provide, in the first place, an introduction to the mathematical and experimental study of compressible flow, subsonic and supersonic. This and other matters now becoming prominent are not collected in a supplementary section but incorporated in place as additional...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2009. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1420067532. The design, development, analysis, and evaluation of new aircraft technologies such as fly by wire, unmanned aerial vehicles, and micro air vehicles, necessitate a better understanding of flight mechanics on the part of the aircraft-systems analyst. A text that provides unified coverage of...
Wiley, Hoboken, 2025. — 194 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1394285631. A resource on theoretical and application aspects of hypersonic slender body aerodynamics with many didactic features included throughout. Developed using class-tested course material, Hypersonic Slender Body Aerodynamics presents the theoretical and application aspects of the subject in a precise, concise, and...
Wiley & Sons Singapore, 2013. — 541 p. — ISBN: 1118479343. Theoretical Aerodynamics is a user-friendly text for a full course on theoretical aerodynamics. The author systematically introduces aerofoil theory, its design features and performance aspects, beginning with the basics required, and then gradually proceeding to higher level. The mathematics involved is presented so...
John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2013. XVIII, 541 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-47934-6 (cloth). Theoretical Aerodynamics is a user-friendly text for a full course on theoretical aerodynamics. The author systematically introduces aerofoil theory, its design features and performance aspects, beginning with the basics required, and then gradually proceeding to higher level. The...
John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., 2013. XVIII, 541 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-47934-6 (cloth). Theoretical Aerodynamics is a user-friendly text for a full course on theoretical aerodynamics. The author systematically introduces aerofoil theory, its design features and performance aspects, beginning with the basics required, and then gradually proceeding to higher level. The...
Springer Verlag, New York, 1992. — 407 p. — ISBN-13:978-1-4612-7686-9. The aerodynamics of aircraft at high angles of attack is a subject which is being pursued diligently, because the modern agile fighter aircraft and many of the current generation of missiles must perform well at very high incidence, near and beyond stall. However, a comprehensive presentation of the methods...
Roskam Aviation and Engineering Corporation, 1979. 674 p. — Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-31382. In Airplane Flight Dynamics & Automatic Flight Controls, Part I, exhaustive coverage is provided of the methods for analysis and synthesis of the steady state and perturbed state (open loop) stability and control of fixed wing aircraft. This widely used book has been...
Roskam Aviation and Engineering Corporation, 1979. 674 p. — Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-31382. In Airplane Flight Dynamics & Automatic Flight Controls, Part I, exhaustive coverage is provided of the methods for analysis and synthesis of the steady state and perturbed state (open loop) stability and control of fixed wing aircraft. This widely used book has been...
6th edition. Darcorporation, 2001. 576 p. ISBN10: 1884885179 In this two-part textbook, methods are presented for analysis and synthesis of the steady state and perturbed state (open and closed loop) stability and control of fixed wing aircraft. Part I contains Chapters 1-6 and Appendices A-D. Part П contains Chapters 7 12 as well as Appendix E. The book is aimed at junior,...
6th edition. Darcorporation, 2001. 416 p. ISBN10: 1884885187 In this two-part textbook, methods are presented for analysis and synthesis of the steady state and perturbed state (open and closed loop) stability and control of fixed wing aircraft. Part I contains Chapters 1-6 and Appendices A-D. Part П contains Chapters 7 12 as well as Appendix E. The book is aimed at junior,...
The University of Kansas, 1973. 110 p. The purpose of this text is to present methods for computing 'ball-park' numbers of stability and control derivatives for conventional, tail-aft airplanes in subsonic flight. Such methods are particularly valuable when doing parametric or preliminary design studies of stability and control characteristics of airplanes. For class-room...
Published by Design, Analysis and Research Corporation, 1997, ISBN: 1-884885-44-6 This textbook covers those fundamentals of airplane aerodynamics, propulsion and performance which are required to predict the performance characteristics of fixed wing airplanes. The text is aimed at junior and senior level aeronautical engineering students. However, the authors have attempted to...
Springer, 2000. — X, 352 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-08556-7. This book is dedicated to the memory of a distinguished Russian engineer, Rostislav E. Alexeyev, who was the first in the world to develop the largest ground effect machine - Ekranoplan. One of Alexeyev's design concepts with the aerodynamic configuration of a jlying wing can be seen on the front page. The book presents a...
Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996. — 294 p. — ISBN10: 0340631708, ISBN13: 9780340631706. The performance, stability, control and response of aircraft are key areas of aeronautical engineering. This book provides a comprehensive overview to the underlying theory and application of what are often perceived to be difficult topics. Initially it introduces the reader to the...
Woodhead Publishing, 2011. — 257 p. — ISBN10: 1845699920. Instrumentation is now supplied as a turnkey apparatus displaying the results of measurements on the screen of a personal computer. Compared to the tedious data handling of the past, this is a wonderful improvement. Despite the shift to automated systems, however, the basic methods and theory have not changed and it is...
John Wiley & Sons, 2007. — 296 p. — ISBN-10 0470044160. Straightforward methods to design and operate aircraft to meet performance specifications. Aircraft Performance sets forth a group of tested and proven methods needed to determine the performance of an aircraft. The central theme of this book is the energy method, which enhances understanding of the standard methods and...
Zweiter Band: Aerodynamik des Tragflügels, des Rumpfes, der Flügel-Rumpf-Anordnung und der Leitwerke 3. Aufl. — Springer,2001. XVI, 514 S. — ISBN: 978-3-642-63149-8 ISBN: 978-3-642-56910-4 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56910-4 — (Reihe: Klassiker der Technik, Bestellreihe: Aerodynamik des Flugzeuges). Gesamtwerk: In diesem Werk der beiden bedeutenden Aerodynamiker wird das...
Erster Band: Grundlagen aus der Strömungstechnik Aerodynamik des Tragflügels (Teil I) Ursprünglich monographisch erschienen — 3. Aufl — Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH, 2001, XVI, 480 S — ISBN: 978-3-642-63148-1 — (Reihe: Klassiker der Technik Bestellreihe: Aerodynamik des Flugzeuges). Gesamtwerk: In diesem Werk der beiden bedeutenden Aerodynamiker wird das gesamte...
McGraw-Hill, 1979. — XIII, 541 p. — ISBN 0070553416. Only a very few comprehensive presentations of the scientific fundamentals of the aerodynamics of the airplane have ever been published. The present book is an English translation of the two-volume work "Aerodynamik des Flugzeuges," which has already appeared in a second edition in the original German. In this book we treat...
McGraw-Hill, 2012. — XXXVIII, 872 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-07-339811-2; ISBN 0-07-339811-X. This book is written primarily as a textbook, but with today's extensive military emphasis on unmanned flight drones and highly maneuverable vehicles, practicing aerospace engineers in the industry, as well as electrical engineers working in flight controls, will find this book a valuable...
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. — 397 p. "Introduction to Aircraft Flight Dynamics" is geared directly toward senior undergraduate engineering students and beginning graduate students. The author uses linear algebraic principles and notations to establish airframe equations of motion. The use of this dimensional approach to stability derivatives when...
Wiley, Chichester, 2015, 516 p. — ISBN10: 1118787595. Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics is acomprehensive textbook covering classical aerodynamic theories and recent applications made possible by computational aerodynamics. Logically ordered for use in courses, the first seven chapters deal with classical methods of analysis up to the panel method and boundary layer...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — XXI, 297 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03726-7 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-64035-1 (paperback). This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro air vehicles (MAVs), which present some of the richest problems...
Argus Books England, 1994. — 331 p. — ISBN: 1-85486-121-2. The purpose of this book is to present in practically useful for some standard aerodynamic theory as it applies to model aeroplanes, helicopters and gliders. Anyone whose interest in aeromodelling is more than casual will benefit from understanding the behaviour of his models better. He is less likely to make serios...
CRC Press, 2017. — 367 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4987-4604-5. Advanced Flight Dynamics aim to integrate the subjects of aircraft performance, trim and stability/control in a seamless manner. Advanced Flight Dynamics highlights three key and unique viewpoints. Firstly, it follows the revised and corrected aerodynamic modeling presented previously in recent textbook on Elementary Flight...
Aerospace Series. — Wiley, 2014. — 265 p. — ISBN10: 0470662573, ISBN13: 978-0-470-66257-1. Aircraft Aerodynamic Design: Geometry and Optimization is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners in the aerospace industry, and a reference for graduate and undergraduate students in aircraft design and multidisciplinary design optimization. Optimal aircraft design is...
Springer, 1997. 336 p. ISBN: 321182815X This book presents the challenges, the tools and the concepts for developing economically viable high speed civil transport aircraft under environmental constraints. Computational tools for aircraft design and optimization are outlined and application in an industrial environment is shown for new and innovative case studies.
Princeton University Press, New Jersey, USA, 2004. — 430 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0691114071. Flight Dynamics takes a new approach to the science and mathematics of aircraft flight, unifying principles of aeronautics with contemporary systems analysis. While presenting traditional material that is critical to understanding aircraft motions, it does so in the context of modern...
Princeton University Press, New Jersey, USA, 2004. — 430 p. — ISBN13: 978-0691114071 Flight Dynamics takes a new approach to the science and mathematics of aircraft flight, unifying principles of aeronautics with contemporary systems analysis. While presenting traditional material that is critical to understanding aircraft motions, it does so in the context of modern...
Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, 2000. — 368 p. — ISBN 978-0-470-77313-0. In the last seven years, many of the regulations regarding civil aviation have changed. This new revised edition of the standard reference used in aviation flight schools includes all the latest JAA regulations and requirements, giving aspiring pilots what they need to pass the JAA exam, while also keeping...
Wiley, Chichester, 2011, 506 p. — ISBN10: 047071073X, ISBN13: 9780470710739. Organised and written as an accessible study guide for student pilots wishing to take commercial ground examinations to obtain ATPL or CPL licenses, Principles of Flight for Pilots also provides a reliable up-to-date reference for qualified and experienced personnel wishing to further improve their...
NASA, 1975. 204 p. This volume is a result of several semesters of the author's teaching of an introductory course in aerodynamics to apprentices and technicians at the NASA Langley Research Center. The problem faced was to provide more than a layman's treatment of the subject but not the detail as taught in many individual coutses on the college level. The result is a highly...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 492 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-80678-7. Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) is a relatively new research area. CAA algorithms have developed rapidly and the methods have been applied in many areas of aeroacoustics. The objective of CAA is not simply to develop computational methods but also to use these methods to solve practical aeroacoustics...
Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. — 144 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-30020-7. This book presents flight mechanics of aircraft, spacecraft, and rockets to technical and non-technical readers in simple terms and based purely on physical principles. Adapting an accessible and lucid writing style, the book retains the scientific authority and conceptual substance of an engineering textbook...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2009, 535 p. — ISBN: 1402086636, 8132208935. Knowledge is not merely everything we have come to know, but also ideas we have pondered long enough to know in which way they are related, and how these ideas can be put to practical use. Modern aviation has been made possible as a result of much scienti c - search. However, the very rst useful...
Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014, XXV, 413 p. 208 illus., 94 illus. in color. — ISBN: 978-94-007-7048-5, ISBN: 978-94-007-7049-2 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7049-2 – (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, Vol. 104). Supplementary reading for CFD Course Includes a wide range of practical examples Clear overview of modeling hierarchies Informed Industrial...
First Edition. — Delhi: University Publications, 2012. — 133 p. — ISBN: 978-81-323-3515-3. This book deals with concepts and applications of Aviation, Aerodynamics and spaceflight. Aircraft Atmospheric Entry Aviation Satellite Spacecraft Wind Tunnel
Berlin: Springer, 2015. — 460 S. — ISBN 978-3-662-44399-6. Am Anfang dieses umfangreichen und modernen Nachschlagewerkes steht die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Drehflügler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Die Strahl- und Blattelemententheorie sowie deren Anwendung im Schwebe-, Vertikal-, Vorwärts- und Autorotationsflug stellen den Schwerpunkt dar. Die Grundlagen der...
University of Cambridge, 1993, 401 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34123-X. Cambridge Aerospace Series 4 This text, written at a level accessible lo advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, covers all aspects of flight performance of modern day high-performance aircraft, from take-off to landing, through different phases of flight in climb, cruise, turning and ascent. The book...
New York, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1945. 632 p. Perhaps the most balanced, well-written account of fundamental fluid dynamics ever published. Mises' classic avoids the formidable mathematical structure of fluid dynamics, while conveying — by often unorthodox methods — a full understanding of the physical phenomena and mathematical concepts of aeronautical...
Dordrecht; Heidelberg; New York; London: Springer, 2015. — XIII, 555 p. — (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications) — ISBN 978-94-017-9746-7; ISBN 978-94-017-9747-4 (eBook). Written to teach students the nature of transonic flow and its mathematical foundation, this book offers a much-needed introduction to transonic aerodynamics. The authors present a quantitative and qualitative...
2nd edition. — Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1997. 260 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4612-7474-2, e-ISBN13: 978-1-4612-2254-5, DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2254-5. Dealing with aerodynamics in the broadest sense, this book discusses, in addition to aeroplanes, the aerodynamics of cars and birds, and the motion of diverse objects through air and water. The fundamental notions of mechanics and...
2nd Edition. — AIAA, Reston, 2014. — 721 p. — ISBN-10 9781624102547. Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics, Second Edition revises and expands this acclaimed, widely adopted textbook. Outstanding for use in undergraduate aeronautical engineering curricula, it is written for those first encountering the topic by clearly explaining the concepts and derivations of equations...
2nd ed. — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., Reston, Virginia, 2007. 621 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-56347-875-8 (alk. paper), ISBN10: 1-56347-875-7 (alk. paper). This book unifies all aspects of flight dynamics for the efficient development of aerospace vehicle simulations. Now in its second edition, its purpose is still to provide the reader with a complete set...
2nd ed. — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., Reston, Virginia, 2007. 621 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-56347-875-8 (alk. paper), ISBN10: 1-56347-875-7 (alk. paper). This book unifies all aspects of flight dynamics for the efficient development of aerospace vehicle simulations. Now in its second edition, its purpose is still to provide the reader with a complete set...
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