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The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography

2024-02-07T05:54:05Z

Toner: Added the title 'The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography'

{{Title|title=The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography (Classics in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 32)
|author=Frank Natterer
|publisher=SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
|summary=This book provides a unified view of tomographic techniques, a common mathematical framework, and an in-depth treatment of reconstruction algorithms. It focuses on the reconstruction of a function from line or plane integrals, with special emphasis on applications in radiology, science, and engineering. The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography covers the relevant mathematical theory of the Radon transform and related transforms and also studies more practical questions such as stability, sampling, resolution, and accuracy. Quite a bit of attention is given to the derivation, analysis, and practical examination of reconstruction algorithms, for both standard problems and problems with incomplete data.
|isbn=
*0898714931
*978-0898714937
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Computerized-Tomography-Classics-Applied/dp/0898714931
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

2024-02-07T05:47:50Z

Toner: Added a link to the official printing

{{Title|title=Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
|author=RAVI SETHI & JEFFREY D. ULLMAN ALFRED V. AHO, MONICA S. LAN
|publisher=PEARSON INDIA
|summary=Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the "Dragon Book, " is available in a new edition Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published The authors, recognizing that few readers will ever go on to construct a compiler, retain their focus on the broader set of problems faced in software design and software development.

*Note: Get the official printing instead! https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools-2nd/dp/0321486811
|isbn=
*9332518661
*978-9332518667
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-International-Economy/dp/9332518661
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Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design

2024-02-07T05:38:38Z

Toner: Added the title 'Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design'

{{Title|title=Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design
|author=Stephen Brown, Zvonko Vranesic
|publisher=McGraw Hill
|summary=Fundamentals of Digital Logic With Verilog Designteaches the basic design techniques for logic circuits. It emphasizes the synthesis of circuits and explains how circuits are implemented in real chips. Fundamental concepts are illustrated by using small examples.

Use of CAD software is well integrated into the book. The CAD software provides automatic mapping of a design written in Verilog into Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs). Students will be able to try, firsthand, the book's Verilog examples (over 140) and homework problems.

Engineers use Quartus CAD for designing, simulating, testing and implementing logic circuits. The version included with this text supports all major features of the commercial product and comes with a compiler for the IEEE standard Verilog language. Students will be able to:
*enter a design into the CAD system
*compile the design into a selected device
*simulate the functionality and timing of the resulting circuit
*implement the designs in actual devices (using the school's laboratory facilities)

Verilog is a complex language, so it is introduced gradually in the book. Each Verilog feature is presented as it becomes pertinent for the circuits being discussed. To teach the student to use the Quartus CAD, the book includes three tutorials.
|isbn=
*0073380547
*978-0073380544
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Digital-Logic-Verilog-Design/dp/0073380547
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Verilog for Digital Design

2024-02-07T05:34:07Z

Toner: Added the title 'Verilog for Digital Design'

{{Title|title=Verilog for Digital Design
|author=Frank Vahid, Roman Lysecky
|publisher=Wiley
|summary=*Ideal as either a standalone introductory guide or in tandem with Vahid's Digital Design to allow for greater language coverage, this is an accessible introductory guide to hardware description language
*Verilog is a hardware description language used to model electronic systems (sometimes called Verilog HDL) and this book is helpful for anyone who is starting out and learning the language
*Focuses on application and use of the language, rather than just teaching the basics of the language
|isbn=
*0470052627
*978-0470052624
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Verilog-Digital-Design-Frank-Vahid/dp/0470052627
|topics=
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

2024-02-07T05:24:36Z

Toner: Added the title 'Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach'

{{Title|title=Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
|author=John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann
|summary=Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook from Hennessy and Patterson, winners of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recognizing contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field, is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. The text now features examples from the RISC V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a free and openly adoptable standard. It also includes a new chapter on domain specific architectures and an updated chapter on warehouse scale computing that features the first public information on Google's newest WSC.

True to its original mission of demystifying computer architecture, this edition continues the longstanding tradition of focusing on areas where the most exciting computing innovation is happening, while always keeping an emphasis on good engineering design.

*Winner of a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association
*Includes a new chapter on domain specific architectures, explaining how they are the only path forward for improved performance and energy efficiency given the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling
*Features the first publication of several DSAs from industry
*Features extensive updates to the chapter on warehouse scale computing, with the first public information on the newest Google WSC
*Offers updates to other chapters including new material dealing with the use of stacked DRAM; data on the performance of new NVIDIA Pascal GPU vs. new AVX 512 Intel Skylake CPU; and extensive additions to content covering multicore architecture and organization
*Includes "Putting It All Together" sections near the end of every chapter, providing real world technology examples that demonstrate the principles covered in each chapter
*Includes review appendices in the printed text and additional reference appendices available online
*Includes updated and improved case studies and exercises
*ACM named John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
|isbn=
*0128119055
*978-0128119051
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Approach-Kaufmann/dp/0128119055
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Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data

2024-02-07T05:20:20Z

Toner: Added the title 'Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data'

{{Title|title=Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Ira H. Abbott, A. E. von Doenhoff
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary="Most useful in working with wing sections and methods for using section data to predict wing characteristics . . . much detailed geometric and aerodynamic data." — Mechanical Engineering
The first edition of this work has been corrected and republished in answer to the continuing demand for a concise compilation of the subsonic aerodynamics characteristics of modern NASA wing sections together with a description of their geometry and associated theory. These wing sections, or their derivatives, continue to be the ones most commonly used for airplanes designed for both subsonic and supersonic speeds, and for helicopter rotor blades, propeller blades, and high performance fans.
Intended to be primarily a reference work for engineers and students, the book devotes over 300 pages to theoretical and experimental considerations. The theoretical treatment progresses from elementary considerations to methods used for the design of NACA low-drag airfoils. Methods and data are presented for using wingsection data to predict wing characteristics, and judiciously selected plots and cross-plots of experimental data are presented for readily useful correlation of certain simplifying assumptions made in the analyses. The chapters on theory of thin wings and airfoils are particularly valuable, as is the complete summary of the NACA's experimental observations and system of constructing families of airfoils. Mathematics has been kept to a minimum, but it is assumed that the reader has a knowledge of differential and integral calculus, and elementary mechanics.
The appendix of over 350 pages contains these tables: Basic Thickness Forms, Mean Lines, Airfoil Ordinates, and Aerodynamic Characteristics of Wing Sections.
|isbn=
*0486605868
*978-0486605869
|link=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486605868
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Understanding Digital Signal Processing

2024-02-07T05:17:09Z

Toner: Added the title 'Understanding Digital Signal Processing'

{{Title|title=Understanding Digital Signal Processing (Springer Topics in Signal Processing, 13)
|author=Orhan Gazi
|publisher=Springer
|summary=This book explains digital signal processing topics in detail, with a particular focus on ease of understanding. Accordingly, it includes a wealth of examples to aid in comprehension, and stresses simplicity.

The book is divided into four chapters, which respectively address the topics sampling of continuous time signals; multirate signal processing; the discrete Fourier transform; and filter design concepts. It provides original practical techniques to draw the spectrum of aliased signals, together with well-designed numerical examples to illustrate the operation of the fast transforms, filter algorithms, and circuit designs.

Readers of this book should already have some basic understanding of signals and transforms. They will learn fundamental concepts for signals and systems, as the focus is more on digital signal processing concepts rather than continuous time signal processing topics.
|isbn=
*9811352771
*978-9811352775
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-Springer/dp/9811352771
|topics=
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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food

2024-02-07T02:44:55Z

Toner: Added the title 'Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food'

{{Title|title=Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food
|author=Jeff Potter
|publisher=O'Reilly Media
|summary=Why do we cook the way we do? Are you the innovative type, used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Do you want to learn to be a better cook or curious about the science behind what happens to food as it cooks?

More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why do we bake some things at 350°F/175°C and others at 375°F/190°C? Why is medium-rare steak so popular? And just how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers to these questions and more, and offers his unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a patent-violating chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (slow-cooked brisket).

This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who enjoys cooking or wants to experiment in the kitchen.
|isbn=
*1491928050
*978-1491928059
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Geeks-Science-Great-Cooks/dp/1491928050
|topics=
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Organic Chemistry 2nd Edition

2024-02-07T02:43:31Z

Toner: Added the title 'Organic Chemistry 2nd Edition'

{{Title|title=Organic Chemistry
|author=Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves, Stuart Warren
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|summary=Inspiring and motivating students from the moment it published, Organic Chemistry has established itself in just one edition as the student's choice of an organic chemistry text.

The second edition refines and refocuses Organic Chemistry to produce a text that is even more student-friendly, coherent, and logical in its presentation than before.

Like the first, the second edition is built on three principles:

An explanatory approach, through which the reader is motivated to understand the subject and not just learn the facts;

A mechanistic approach, giving the reader the power to understand compounds and reactions never previously encountered;

An evidence-based approach, setting out clearly how and why reactions happen as they do, giving extra depth to the reader's understanding.

The authors write clearly and directly, sharing with the reader their own fascination with the subject, and leading them carefully from topic to topic. Their honest and open narrative flags pitfalls and misconceptions, guiding the reader towards a complete picture of organic chemistry and its universal themes and principles.
|isbn=
*0199270295
*978-0199270293
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Jonathan-Clayden/dp/0199270295
|topics=
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The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller

2024-02-07T02:39:53Z

Toner: Added the title 'The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller'

{{Title|title=The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller
|author=Robert W Marks
|publisher=Hassell Street Press
|summary=This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.

We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
|isbn=
*1014958709
*978-1014958709
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Dymaxion-World-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/1014958709
|topics=
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Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

2024-02-07T02:37:52Z

Toner: Added the title 'Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity'

{{Title|title=Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
|author=Buckminster Fuller
|publisher=Lars Müller Publishers
|summary=A classic of utopian literature, more urgent than ever: Buckminster Fuller's provocative blueprint for the future

Composed of lectures given by Buckminster Fuller throughout the world in the 1960s, Utopia or Oblivion presents the thesis that humanity, for the first time in its history, has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. Fuller's grandson, in the introduction, refers to this selection as "hardcore Bucky," as these essays display Fuller's investigations into mathematics, geometry and how they intersect with the arts, music and world peace. In Fuller's words, "This is what man tends to call utopia. It's a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe―the alternative of which is oblivion.

First published in 1969 and then reprinted by Lars Müller in 2008, Utopia or Oblivion also includes one of the earliest published discussions of Fuller's World Game, a revolutionary "game" that set as the goal for players, that the world "works" for 100% of humanity to nobody's disadvantage. It challenged players to overlook traditional world units such as nations, states and other political and economic divisions.
|isbn=
*3037786221
*978-3037786222
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Oblivion-Prospects-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/3037786221
|topics=
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

2024-02-07T02:35:28Z

Toner: Added the title 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'

{{Title|title=Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
|author=R. Buckminster Fuller
|publisher=Lars Muller
|summary=In this accessible volume, first published in 1969, Fuller offers advice on how to guide "spaceship earth" toward a sustainable future

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication. While Fuller wrote the works in the 1960’s and 1970’s, they could not be more timely: like desperately needed time-capsules of wisdom for the critical moment he foresaw, and in which we find ourselves. Long out of print, they are now being published again, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and interpretation of his visionary ideas.

Initially published in 1969, and one of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.” How will humanity survive? How does automation influence individualization? How can we utilize our resources more effectively to realize our potential to end poverty in this generation? He questions the concept of specialization, calls for a design revolution of innovation, and offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future.And it Came to Pass – Not to Stay brings together Buckminster Fuller’s lyrical and philosophical best, including seven “essays“ in a form he called his “ventilated prose”, and as always addressing the current global crisis and his predictions for the future. These essays, including “How Little I Know”, “What I am Trying to Do”, “Soft Revolution”, and “Ethics”, put the task of ushering in a new era of humanity in the context of “always starting with the universe.“ In rare form, Fuller elegantly weaves the personal, the playful, the simple, and the profound.
|isbn=
*0935754016
*978-3037781265
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Manual-Spaceship-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/3037781262
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Architectural Acoustics

2024-02-07T02:34:02Z

Toner: Added the title 'Architectural Acoustics'

{{Title|title=Architectural Acoustics (J Ross Publishing Classics)
|author=David Egan
|publisher=J. Ross Publishing
|summary=The goal of this widely used book is to present in a highly illustrated format the principles of design for good hearing and freedom from noise in and around buildings. The more than 540 illustrations are not merely supplements to the text as with nearly all traditional books. In this book, the illustrations are the core of the coverage of basic principles of sound and hearing, sound absorption and noise reduction, sound isolation and criteria for noise, control of HVAC systems noise and vibrations, auditorium acoustics design, and electronic sound systems. The book is written for architects, interior designers, engineers, and all others concerned with the design and construction of buildings who need to know the basics of architectural acoustics, but who do not have the time to digest wordy presentations. Designers who understand the basic principles of acoustics will possess an important new tool for shaping the built environment. Hopefully, not only better acoustical environments, but also better buildings should result. Adopting professors will also receive an instructor's guide. An unabridged J. Ross Publishing republication of the edition published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988, 448pp.
|isbn=
*1932159789
*978-1932159783
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Acoustics-Ross-Publishing-Classics/dp/1932159789
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Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

2024-02-07T02:32:26Z

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{{Title|title=Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
|author=Mark DeKay, G. Z. Brown
|publisher=Wiley
|summary=An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. With 432 printed pages and a 450-page electronic book, supplemented with Digital Extras, this package supplies the preliminary design tools and strategies for achieving Architecture 2030® carbon-neutral performance targets. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

*Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.
*Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.
|isbn=
*978-0470945780
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Wind-Light-Architectural-Strategies/dp/0470945788
|topics=
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Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies

2024-02-07T02:32:00Z

Toner: Added the title 'Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies'

{{Title|title=Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
|author=Mark DeKay, G. Z. Brown
|publisher=Wiley
|summary=An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. With 432 printed pages and a 450-page electronic book, supplemented with Digital Extras, this package supplies the preliminary design tools and strategies for achieving Architecture 2030® carbon-neutral performance targets. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.
Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.
|isbn=
*978-0470945780
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Wind-Light-Architectural-Strategies/dp/0470945788
|topics=
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Site Planning

2024-02-07T02:30:27Z

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{{Title|title=Site Planning
|author=Kevin Lynch, Gary Hack
|publisher=MIT Press
|summary=This new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely revised; and is also enriched by the experience of Lynch's coauthor, Gary Hack. For over two decades, Site Planning has remained the only comprehensive source of information on all the principal activities and concerns of arranging the outdoor physical environment. Now, new illustrations double the visual material and one hundred pages of new appendixes cover special techniques, provide references to more detailed technical sources, and put numerical standards in a concise form.

An introduction summarizes the site planning process. This is followed by a case study of a typical professional project and ten chapters which provide new materials on user analysis, programming, site planning for built places, housing tenures and their planning implications, cost estimating, mapping, the reading of air photographs, site design for housing in developing countries, design strategies, environmental impact analyses, and many others -- all illustrated with in-text photographs and line drawings and with Lynch's characteristic marginal sketches.
|isbn=
*0262121069
*978-0262121064
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Site-Planning-Third-Kevin-Lynch/dp/0262121069
|topics=
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City Sense and City Design

2024-02-07T02:28:18Z

Toner: Added the title 'City Sense and City Design'

{{Title|title=City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch
|author=Kevin Lynch
|publisher=The MIT Press
|summary=Kevin Lynch's books are the classic underpinnings of modern urban planning and design, yet they are only a part of his rich legacy of ideas about human purposes and values in built form. City Sense and City Design brings together Lynch's remaining work, including professional design and planning projects that show how he translated many of his ideas and theories into practice. An invaluable sourcebook of design knowledge, City Sense and City Design completes the record of one of the foremost environmental design theorists of our time and leads to a deeper understanding of his distinctively humanistic philosophy.

The editors, both former students of Lynch, provide a cogent summary of his career and of the role he played in shaping and transforming the American urban design profession during the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s. Each of the seven thematic groupings of writings and projects that follow begins with a short introduction explaining their content and their background.

The essays in part I focus on the premises of Lynch's work: his novel reading of large-scale built environments and the notion that the design of an urban landscape should be as meaningful and intimate as the natural landscape. In part II, excerpts from Lynch's travel journals reveal his early ideas on how people perceive and interpret their surroundings—ideas that culminated in his seminal work, The Image of the City. This part of the book also presents Lynch's experiments with children and his assessment of environmental-perception research. The examples of both small-scale and large-scale analysis of visual form in part III are followed by three parts on city design. These include Lynch's more theoretical works on complex planning decisions involving both functional (spatial and structural organization) and normative (how the city works in human terms) approaches, articles discussing the principles that guided Lynch's teaching and practice of city design, and descriptions of Lynch's own projects in the Boston area and elsewhere. The book concludes with essays written late in Lynch's career, fantasy pieces describing utopias and offering new design freedoms and scenarios warning of horrifying "cacotopias."
|isbn=
*0262620952
*978-0262620956
|link=https://www.amazon.com/City-Sense-Design-Writings-Projects/dp/0262620952
|topics=
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The Image of the City

2024-02-07T02:26:37Z

Toner: Added the title 'The Image of the City'

{{Title|title=The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series)
|author=Kevin Lynch
|publisher=The MIT Press
|summary=The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
|isbn=
*0262620014
*978-0262620017
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Image-Harvard-Mit-Joint-Center-Studies/dp/0262620014
|topics=
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Good City Form

2024-02-07T02:25:03Z

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{{Title|title=Good City Form (Mit Press)
|author=Kevin Lynch
|publisher=MIT Press
|summary=A summation and extension of Lynch's vision for the exploration of city form.

With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible. First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form.
|isbn=
*0262620464
*978-0262620468
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Good-City-Form-MIT-Press/dp/0262620464
|topics=
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The Architecture Concept Book

2024-02-07T02:17:59Z

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{{Title|title=The Architecture Concept Book
|author=James Tait
|publisher=Thames & Hudson
|summary=An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students and professionals that offers a new way of thinking about the architecture to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Inspired by the complexity and heterogeneity of the world around us, and by the rise of new technologies and their associated behavior, The Architecture Concept Book seeks to stimulate young architects and students to think outside of what is often a rather conservative and self-perpetuating professional domain and to be influenced by everything around them.

Organized thematically, the book explores thirty-five architectural concepts, which cover wide-ranging topics not always typically included in the study of architecture. James Tait traces the connections between concepts such as familiarity, control, and memory and basic architectural components such as the entrance, arch, columns, and services, to social phenomena such as gathering and reveling, before concluding with texts on shelter, relaxing, and working. Even in a digital age, Tait insists that “we must always think before we design. We must always have a reason to build.”

Each theme is accompanied by photographs, plans, and illustrations specifically drawn by the author to explain spatial ideas, form small scale to the urban.
700 illustrations, 350 in color
|isbn=
*0500294135
*978-0500294130
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Concept-Book-James-Tait/dp/0500294135
|topics=
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Design Process in Architecture: From Concept to Completion

2024-02-07T02:16:16Z

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{{Title|title=Design Process in Architecture: From Concept to Completion
|author=Geoffrey Makstutis
|publisher=Laurence King Publishing
|summary=Every building starts with an idea. But how do you get from a concept to a piece of architecture? Why do some ideas work better than others? What is a "good" design?

Questions like these can make design seem mystifying, especially because the answer is that there is no one right way to design. But understanding how the design process works is an essential part of an architecture student's development – and one of the most powerful tools a designer can wield.

This friendly guidebook will help students with all aspects of the design process, with examples drawn from all types of architecture. It also gives students the tools to develop their own unique ways of working. With accessible text and hundreds of images, this is an indispensable and illuminating guide for beginning architecture students as well as anyone who is curious about how design works.
|isbn=
*178627132X
*978-1786271327
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Design-Process-Architecture-Concept-Completion/dp/178627132X
|topics=
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Siteless: 1001 Building Forms

2024-02-07T02:14:13Z

Toner: Added the title '1001 Building Forms'

{{Title|title=1001 Building Forms
|author=François Blanciak
|publisher=The MIT Press
|summary=An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.

Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he “didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction.” What would happen if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? he asks. The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.

The 1001 building forms in SITELESS include structural parasites, chain link towers, ball bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing—and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. SITELESS presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from. The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a “scale test,” showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.
|isbn=
*0262026309
*978-0262026307
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Siteless-Building-Forms-Fran%C3%A7ois-Blanciak/dp/0262026309
|topics=
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Principles and Techniques of Applied Mathematics

2024-02-07T02:12:40Z

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{{Title|title=Principles and Techniques of Applied Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
|author=Bernard Friedman
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Stimulating, thought-provoking study shows how abstract methods of pure mathematics can be used to systematize problem-solving techniques in applied mathematics. Topics include methods for solving integral equations, finding Green’s function for ordinary or partial differential equations, and for finding the spectral representation of ordinary differential operators. Problems. Appendices. Bibliography.
|isbn=
*9780486664446
*978-0486664446
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Techniques-Applied-Mathematics-Dover/dp/0486664449
|topics=
}}

Foundations of Applied Mathematics

2024-02-07T02:11:09Z

Toner: Added the title 'Foundations of Applied Mathematics'

{{Title|title=Foundations of Applied Mathematics
|author=Michael D. Greenberg
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This classic text in applied mathematics, suitable for undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering courses, is also an excellent reference for professionals and students of applied mathematics. The precise and reader-friendly approach offers single-volume coverage of a substantial number of topics along with well-designed problems and examples.
The five-part treatment begins with an exploration of real variable theory that includes limit processes, infinite series, singular integrals, Fourier series, and vector field theory. Succeeding sections examine complex variables, linear analysis, and ordinary and partial differential equations. Answers to selected exercises appear in the appendix, along with Fourier and Laplace transformation tables and useful formulas.
|isbn=
*0486492796
*978-0486492797
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Applied-Mathematics-Michael-Greenberg/dp/0486492796
|topics=
}}

Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control

2024-02-07T02:06:26Z

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{{Title|title=Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control (Dover Books on Engineering)
|author=Marshall H. Kaplan
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This highly regarded book provides a bridge that spans spacecraft maneuvering and control techniques with associated physical fundamentals. Beginning with an examination of the basic principles of physics underlying spacecraft dynamics and control, the text covers orbital and attitude maneuvers, orbit establishment and orbit transfer, plane rotation, interplanetary transfer and hyperbolic passage, lunar transfer, reorientation with constant momentum, attitude determination, and attitude adjustment requirements. Additional topics include attitude control devices as well as automatic attitude control, orbital perturbations, and the fundamental methods of astrodynamics. A final chapter explores some special problems in this field.
This treatment is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and professional engineers in astronautics. Each chapter presents relevant exercises of varying difficulty, and the text includes a section of answers to selected exercises.
|isbn=
*0486819183
*978-0486819181
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Spacecraft-Dynamics-Control-Engineering/dp/0486819183
|topics=
}}

Advanced Strength of Materials

2024-02-07T02:04:19Z

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{{Title|title=Advanced Strength of Materials (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering)
|author=J. P. Den Hartog
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary text that still enjoys great popularity in engineering schools throughout the world. Widely used as a classroom resource, it has also become a favorite reference and refresher on the subject among engineers everywhere.
This is the first paperback edition of an equally successful text by this highly respected engineer and author. Advanced Strength of Materials takes this important subject into areas of greater difficulty, masterfully bridging its elementary aspects and its most formidable advanced reaches. The book reflects Den Hartog's impressive talent for making lively, discursive and often witty presentations of his subject, and his unique ability to combine the scholarly insight of a distinguished scientist with the practical, problem-solving orientation of an experienced industrial engineer.
The concepts here explored in depth include torsion, rotating disks, membrane stresses in shells, bending of flat plates, beams on elastic foundation, the two-dimensional theory of elasticity, the energy method and buckling. The presentation is aimed at the student who has a one-semester course in elementary strength of materials. The book includes an especially thorough and valuable section of problems and answers which give both students and professionals practice in techniques and clear illustrations of applications.
|isbn=
*0486654079
*978-0486654072
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Strength-Materials-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/0486654079
|topics=
}}

Advanced Strength of Materials

2024-02-07T02:03:43Z

Toner: Added the title 'Advanced Strength of Materials'

{{Title|title=Advanced Strength of Materials (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering)
|author=Advanced Strength of Materials
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary text that still enjoys great popularity in engineering schools throughout the world. Widely used as a classroom resource, it has also become a favorite reference and refresher on the subject among engineers everywhere.
This is the first paperback edition of an equally successful text by this highly respected engineer and author. Advanced Strength of Materials takes this important subject into areas of greater difficulty, masterfully bridging its elementary aspects and its most formidable advanced reaches. The book reflects Den Hartog's impressive talent for making lively, discursive and often witty presentations of his subject, and his unique ability to combine the scholarly insight of a distinguished scientist with the practical, problem-solving orientation of an experienced industrial engineer.
The concepts here explored in depth include torsion, rotating disks, membrane stresses in shells, bending of flat plates, beams on elastic foundation, the two-dimensional theory of elasticity, the energy method and buckling. The presentation is aimed at the student who has a one-semester course in elementary strength of materials. The book includes an especially thorough and valuable section of problems and answers which give both students and professionals practice in techniques and clear illustrations of applications.
|isbn=
*0486654079
*978-0486654072
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Strength-Materials-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/0486654079
|topics=
}}

Theoretical Hydrodynamics

2024-02-07T02:01:28Z

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{{Title|title=Theoretical Hydrodynamics (Dover Books on Physics)
|author=L. M. Milne-Thomson
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This classic text offers a thorough, clear and methodical introductory exposition of the mathematical theory of fluid motion, useful in applications to both hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Departing radically from traditional approaches, the author bases the treatment on vector methods and notation with their natural consequence in two dimensions — the complex variable.
New features in this edition include: a chapter bringing together various exact treatments of two-dimensional motion with a free surface in a gravitational field, followed by one dealing with approximations (mostly linearized) relevant to this but with emphasis on waves; a chapter on tensor methods applied to the flow of viscous fluids; a chapter on flow with small Reynolds' number, including an account of a novel application of the complex variable to Stokes' flow; and an outline of the theory of two-dimensional laminar flow in a boundary layer.
Prerequisites are restricted to a knowledge of elementary calculus since any additional mathematics is introduced as required, making this a self-contained treatment. Nearly 400 diagrams help illustrate the text and over 600 exercises are collected into sets of examples at the end of each chapter.
|isbn=
*0486689700
*978-0486689708
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Hydrodynamics-Dover-Books-Physics/dp/0486689700
|topics=
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Basic Wing and Airfoil Theory

2024-02-07T01:59:05Z

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{{Title|title=Basic Wing and Airfoil Theory (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Alan Pope
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=A classic of aeronautical engineering, this text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students is also an excellent reference. It begins with a survey of vector analysis and complex variables, offering readers the basic tools for handling subsequent chapters.
Topics include stream function and other flow functions, the Joukowski transformation, airfoil construction and pressure distribution, and thin and thick airfoil theories. Surveys of finite and monoplane wings are succeeded by a consideration of the field about the wing, the spanwise load distribution for arbitrary wings, and assorted applications of perfect fluid theory. Each chapter includes several illustrated and explained examples, and numerous problems and references appear at the end of each chapter as well.
|isbn=
*0486471888
*978-0486471884
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Airfoil-Theory-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486471888
|topics=
}}

Viscous Hypersonic Flow: Theory of Reacting and Hypersonic Boundary Layers

2024-02-07T01:57:30Z

Toner: Added the title 'Viscous Hypersonic Flow: Theory of Reacting and Hypersonic Boundary Layers'

{{Title|title=Viscous Hypersonic Flow: Theory of Reacting and Hypersonic Boundary Layers (Dover Books on Engineering)
|author=William H. Dorrance
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This frequently cited text addresses theories for treating the laminar and turbulent boundary layers of reacting gas mixtures. The theories are developed from fundamentals, and all related chemical, thermodynamic, and physical concepts are described in a fashion that provides a self-contained treatment. In addition, the book presents useful equations for calculating heat transfer between reacting gas boundary layers and reacting, melting, sublimating, and otherwise decomposing surfaces.
Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate engineering courses in modern boundary-layer theory, this volume also serves as a valuable reference for professionals. Along with its thorough coverage of the theories for treating reacting laminar and turbulent boundary layers, the text also describes the underlying theories and methods of calculating transport and thermodynamic properties for dilute gas mixtures. Certain useful concepts from thermochemistry are also examined in detail. All theories are developed from the fundamentals, with a focus on the basic physics of interactions between like and unlike particles and the roles these interactions play in determining the transport properties of reacting gas mixtures.
|isbn=
*048681288X
*978-0486812885
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Viscous-Hypersonic-Flow-Reacting-Engineering/dp/048681288X
|topics=
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Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly

2024-02-07T01:55:43Z

Toner: Added the title 'Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly'

{{Title|title=Hydrofoils: Design, Build, Fly
|author=Ray Vellinga
|publisher=Peacock Hill Publishing
|summary=This is a book on how to design, build, and fly hydrofoil boats. It begins with the history and theory of hydrofoils, and continues with an explanation of flight characteristics, such as; stability, control, lift, drag, cavitation, and ventilation. Foil configurations, weight and balance, flying height, and roll management are covered as well as calculations of stress, hull configuration, and wing sizing. One section demonstrates methods for comparing designs, and explores specific design ideas for motorized, human powered, and sail powered hydrofoils. Piloting and trouble shooting are followed by a bibliography and index. This very complete book includes over 270 illustrations, charts and tables on the subject of creating hydrofoil boats. Because hydrofoils fly like airplanes, except in a denser fluid, the book's subject could be described as aerodynamics adapted to hydrofoils. It is the best book available for hydrofoil enthusiasts. There is no other book like it.
|isbn=
*0982236115
*978-0982236116
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofoils-Design-Build-Ray-Vellinga/dp/0982236115
|topics=
}}

Aeroelasticity

2024-02-07T01:52:12Z

Toner: Added the title 'Aeroelasticity'

{{Title|title=Aeroelasticity (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Raymond L. Bisplinghoff, Holt Ashley, Robert L. Halfman
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Designed as both a textbook for advanced engineering students and a reference book for practicing engineers, this highly regarded work deals not only with the practical aspects of aeroelasticity, but the aerodynamic and structural tools upon which these rest. Accordingly, the book divides roughly into two halves: the first deals with the tools and the second with applications of the tools to aeroelastic phenomena.
Topics include deformation of airplane structures under static and dynamic loads, approximate methods of computing natural mode shapes and frequencies, two-and three-dimensional incompressible flow, compressible flow, wings and bodies in three-dimensional unsteady flow, static aeroelastic phenomena, flutter, dynamic response phenomena, aeroelastic model theory, model design and construction, testing techniques and more. Chapters have been designed to progress from easy to difficult so that instructors using this book as an elementary text in aeroelasticity will find their purposes served by simply using the first parts of selected chapters.
Helpful appendixes deal with such mathematical tools as matrices and linear systems (prerequisites include the usual engineering mathematics courses and advanced calculus}, while many numerical examples are included throughout the text. Engineering students as well as practicing engineers will find this work an unmatched treatment of the topic and an indispensable reference for their libraries.
|isbn=
*0486691896
*978-0486691893
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Aeroelasticity-Dover-Books-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486691896
|topics=
}}

A Student's Guide to the Navier–Stokes Equations

2024-02-07T01:45:56Z

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{{Title|title=A Student's Guide to the Navier–Stokes Equations
|author=Justin W. Garvin
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|summary=The Navier-Stokes equations describe the motion of fluids and are an invaluable addition to the toolbox of every physicist, applied mathematician, and engineer. The equations arise from applying Newton's laws of motion to a moving fluid and are considered, when used in combination with mass and energy conservation rules, to be the fundamental governing equations of fluid motion. They are relevant across many disciplines, from astrophysics and oceanic sciences to aerospace engineering and materials science. This Student's Guide provides a clear and focused presentation of the derivation, significance and applications of the Navier-Stokes equations, along with the associated continuity and energy equations. Designed as a useful supplementary resource for undergraduate and graduate students, each chapter concludes with a selection of exercises intended to reinforce and extend important concepts. Video podcasts demonstrating the solutions in full are provided online, along with written solutions and other additional resources.
|isbn=
*1009236164
*978-1009236164
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-Navier-Stokes-Equations-Guides/dp/1009236164
|topics=
}}

Propeller Aerodynamics

2024-02-07T01:44:37Z

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{{Title|title=Propeller Aerodynamics
|author=Frank E Hitchens
|publisher=Auk Academic
|summary=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. Incorrect propeller handling can cause damage to the aircraft and reduce performance efficiency. Most aerodynamic text books only give a brief view of propeller aerodynamics; however this book Propeller Aerodynamics delves more deeply into this subject. The book covers the history and operation of aircraft propellers, prop pitch, thrust, efficiency, aircraft stability, prop forces, constant-speed units and more. This is all essential reading for the pilot progressing to more advanced high-performance aircraft.
|isbn=
*178538211X
*978-1785382116
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Propeller-Aerodynamics-Frank-Hitchens/dp/178538211X
|topics=
}}

Advanced Aircraft Systems

2024-02-07T01:42:42Z

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{{Title|title=Advanced Aircraft Systems
|author=David Lombardo
|publisher=McGraw Hill
|summary=This book explains the theory, components, and practical applications of systems in turboprop, turojet, and turbofan aircraft. The author clearly examines electrical, turbine engine, lubrication and coooling , and other systems.
|isbn=
*007038603X
*978-0070386037
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Aircraft-Systems-David-Lombardo/dp/007038603X
|topics=
}}

Wind Tunnel Tales: Memoirs of a Wind Tunnel Engineer

2024-02-07T01:40:17Z

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{{Title|title=Wind Tunnel Tales: Memoirs of a Wind Tunnel Engineer
|author=William E. Anderson
|publisher=?
|summary=Wind Tunnel Tales, Memoirs of a Wind Tunnel Engineer by William "Bill" E. Anderson provides an entertaining glimpse into the STEM world of aircraft testing and the professionals who operate those tests in wind tunnels. Mr. Anderson's electrical engineer career spanned twenty-five years, where he and his fellow engineers significantly advanced the art and science of aviation and wind tunnels.

Bill describes many of the technical challenges he faced and the fun and joy he experienced on his adventures trying to solve them from NASA's research center in Langley, Virginia, to Northrop's facilities in California, to Arnold Engineering Center in Tullashoma, Tennessee. He promises young people won't be bored or disappointed if they work in this exciting field.
|isbn=
*1736311506
*978-1736311509
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Tunnel-Tales-Memoirs-Engineer/dp/1736311506
|topics=
}}

Helicopter Aerodynamics

2024-02-07T01:03:46Z

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{{Title|title=Helicopter Aerodynamics
|author=Ethirajan Rathakrishnan
|publisher=PHI Learning
|summary=This book is developed to serve as a concise text for a course on helicopter aerodynamics at the introductory level. It introduces to the rotary-wing aerodynamics, with applications to helicopters, and application of the relevant principles to the aerodynamic design of a helicopter rotor and its blades. The basic aim of this book is to make a complete text covering both the basic and applied aspects of theory of rotary wing flying machine for students, engineers, and applied physicists. The philosophy followed in this book is that the subject of helicopter aerodynamics is covered combining the theoretical analysis, physical features and the application aspects. Considerable number of solved examples and exercise problems with answers are coined for this book. This book will cater to the requirement of numerical problems on helicopter flight performance, which is required for the students of aeronautical/aerospace engineering. SALIENT FEATURES: To provide an introductory treatment of the aerodynamic theory of rotary-wing aircraft To study the fundamentals of rotor aerodynamics for rotorcraft in hovering flight, axial flight, and forward flight modes To perform blade element analysis, investigate rotating blade motion, and quantify basic helicopter performance
|isbn=
*9388028295
*978-9388028295
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Helicopter-Aerodynamics-Ethirajan-Rathakrishnan-author/dp/9388028295
|topics=
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Eyes Turned Skyward: An Introduction to Aerospace Engineering with Empahsis on Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance Analysis

2024-02-07T01:01:56Z

Toner: Added the title 'Eyes Turned Skyward: An Introduction to Aerospace Engineering with Empahsis on Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance Analysis'

{{Title|title=Eyes Turned Skyward: An Introduction to Aerospace Engineering with Emphasis on Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance Analysis
|author=Patrick H. Browning, John L. Loth
|publisher=Patrick H. Browning
|summary=An Introduction to Aerospace Engineering with Emphasis on Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance Analysis
|isbn=
*1943665028
*978-1943665020
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Turned-Skyward-Introduction-Aerodynamics/dp/1943665028
|topics=
}}

Fans: Aerodynamic Design - Noise Reduction - Optimization

2024-02-07T00:58:57Z

Toner: Added the title 'Fans: Aerodynamic Design - Noise Reduction - Optimization'

{{Title|title=Fans: Aerodynamic Design - Noise Reduction - Optimization
|author=Thomas Carolus
|publisher=Springer Vieweg
|summary=This textbook combines in a unique concept the design and construction of radial and axial fans with the problem of noise generation as well as its mitigation already in the fan development stage. The aim is to describe selected, easily applicable methods of aerodynamic design and noise prediction and to demonstrate their physical principles. Exercises with solutions facilitate understanding. The completely revised and expanded edition now also includes guidance on selecting fans for a given task, simulation-based optimization methods for fan design, and psychoacoustic methods that can be used to measure the quality of fan noise.

This book is a translation of the original German 4th edition Ventilatoren by Thomas Carolus, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
|isbn=
*3658379588
*978-3658379582
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Fans-Aerodynamic-Design-Reduction-Optimization/dp/3658379588
|topics=
}}

Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies

2024-02-07T00:57:17Z

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{{Title|title=Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Holt Ashley, Marten Landahl
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=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 aeronautical engineers and the foundation of current and future research. The present volume is also unique for its recognition of matched asymptotic expansions as a unifying framework for introducing boundary-value problems of external flow over thin wings and bodies. In addition, the book fully acknowledges the important role of high-speed computers in aerodynamics.
After a short review of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, the authors offer a fairly extensive treatment of constant-density inviscid flow. Chapter 3 deals with singular perturbation problems, presenting an extremely useful technique not to be found in most texts. Subsequent chapters give solid basic coverage of these topics:
*Chap. 4-Effects of Viscosity
*Chap. 5-Thin-Wing Theory
*Chap. 6-Siender-Body Theory
*Chap. 7-Three-Dimensional Wings in Steady, Subsonic Flow
*Chap. 8-Three-Dimensional Thin Wings in Steady Supersonic Flow
*Chap. 9-Drag at Supersonic Speeds
*Chap. 10-Use of Flow-Reversal Theorems in Drag Minimization Problems
*Chap. 11-Interference and Nonplanar Lifting Surface theories
*Chap. 12-Transonic Small-Disturbance Flow
*Chap. 13-Unsteady Flow

Ideal as a primary or supplementary text at the graduate level, Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies also offers working engineers a valuable reference to the resultsof modern aerodynamic research and a selection of new and useful analytical tools.
Holt Ashley is Professor of Aeronautics/ Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Marten Landahl is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at M.I.T. and in the Department of Mechanics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
|isbn=
*0486648990
*978-0486648996
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Aerodynamics-Wings-Bodies-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486648990
|topics=
}}

Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies

2024-02-07T00:56:33Z

Toner: Added the title 'Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies'

{{Title|title=Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Holt Ashley, Marten Landahl
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=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 aeronautical engineers and the foundation of current and future research. The present volume is also unique for its recognition of matched asymptotic expansions as a unifying framework for introducing boundary-value problems of external flow over thin wings and bodies. In addition, the book fully acknowledges the important role of high-speed computers in aerodynamics.
After a short review of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, the authors offer a fairly extensive treatment of constant-density inviscid flow. Chapter 3 deals with singular perturbation problems, presenting an extremely useful technique not to be found in most texts. Subsequent chapters give solid basic coverage of these topics:
Chap. 4-Effects of Viscosity
Chap. 5-Thin-Wing Theory
Chap. 6-Siender-Body Theory
Chap. 7-Three-Dimensional Wings in Steady, Subsonic Flow
Chap. 8-Three-Dimensional Thin Wings in Steady Supersonic Flow
Chap. 9-Drag at Supersonic Speeds
Chap. 10-Use of Flow-Reversal Theorems in Drag Minimization Problems
Chap. 11-Interference and Nonplanar Lifting Surface theories
Chap. 12-Transonic Small-Disturbance Flow
Chap. 13-Unsteady Flow

Ideal as a primary or supplementary text at the graduate level, Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies also offers working engineers a valuable reference to the resultsof modern aerodynamic research and a selection of new and useful analytical tools.
Holt Ashley is Professor of Aeronautics/ Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Marten Landahl is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at M.I.T. and in the Department of Mechanics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
|isbn=
*0486648990
*978-0486648996
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Aerodynamics-Wings-Bodies-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486648990
|topics=
}}

Theory of Flight

2024-02-07T00:54:36Z

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{{Title|title=Theory of Flight (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Richard von Mises, Kurt H. Hohenemser
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary="An outstanding textbook." — Scientific, Medical and Technical Books
Almost unsurpassed as a balanced, well-written account of fundamental fluid dynamics, Theory of Flight may still be recommended for a clearer presentation than is to be forced in many more recent works, though it is limited to situations in which air compressibility effects are unimportant.
Designed for the college senior or beginning graduate student, the text assumes a knowledge of the principles of calculus and some training in general mechanics. It is unusual in offering a well-balanced introduction, stressing equally theory and practice. It 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 engineering. Theory of Flight contains perhaps the best introduction to the general theory of stability, while the introduction to dynamics of incompressible fluids and the chapters on wing theory remain particularly valuable for their clarity of exposition and originality of thought.
Mises' position as one of the great pioneers in the development of the aeronautical sciences lends a flavor of authenticity not found in more conventional textbooks. Any student who has made himself familiar with his exposition of the fundamentals and applications will have acquired an excellent background for additional, more specialized fields of modern aeronautical engineering.
|isbn=
*0486605418
*978-0486605418
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Flight-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486605418
|topics=
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Aerodynamics of the Airplane

2024-02-07T00:49:29Z

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{{Title|title=Aerodynamics of the Airplane (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Clark B. Millikan
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Written on the eve of World War II, this pioneering introduction to the science of aerodynamics is the work of one of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's founders. Clark B. Millikan's brief but intensive summary deals with the basic problems of aerodynamics, covering subjects essential to the background of any well-rounded aeronautical engineer. State-of-the-art at the time of its original publication, this volume will appeal to historians of science as well as to students of aerodynamics, who will welcome the chance to encounter this basic text by one of the foremost early members of their profession.
Starting with an overview of fundamental principles, the treatment examines the aerodynamicist's basic data and considers aspects of performance, longitudinal stability and control, and lateral stability and control. A selection of problems appears at the end of the book, in addition to a density and pressure altitude conversion chart and a composite performance chart.
|isbn=
*0486823709
*978-0486823706
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Aerodynamics-Airplane-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486823709
|topics=
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Theoretical Aerodynamics

2024-02-07T00:48:07Z

Toner: Added the title 'Theoretical Aerodynamics'

{{Title|title=Theoretical Aerodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=L. M. Milne-Thomson
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=A classic in its field, this university text and reference book has long been one of the basic works. This is the complete reprinting of the revised (1966) edition which brings the subject up to date, including a complete and probably unique chapter on conical flow round sweptback wings.
After two introductory chapters on the simplifying assumptions demanded for the study and a final chapter on vectors, the author treats the material in four fairly well-defined parts: (1) two-dimensional aerofoils (two-dimensional motion, rectilinear vortices, the circular cylinder as an aerofoil, Joukowski's transformation, theory of two-dimensional aerofoils, and thin aerofoils); (2) three-dimensional aerofoils (induced velocity, aerofoils of finite aspect ratio, the lifting line theory, lifting surface theory, propellers, and wind tunnel corrections); (3) subsonic and supersonic flow (subsonic flow, supersonic flow, supersonic sweptback and delta wings); and, (4) the aircraft as a whole (simple flight problems, moments, and stability). The treatment is founded on complex variable and vector methods, both of which are explained in the self-contained text. A wealth of problems, illustrations, and cross-references add to the book's value both as a text and a reference. The only prerequisite is a knowledge of the elements of the differential and integral calculus.
|isbn=
*048661980X
*978-0486619804
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Aerodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/048661980X
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Aerodynamics: Selected Topics in the Light of Their Historical Development

2024-02-07T00:45:58Z

Toner: Added the title 'Aerodynamics: Selected Topics in the Light of Their Historical Development'

{{Title|title=Aerodynamics: Selected Topics in the Light of Their Historical Development (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Theodore von Karman
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=Authoritative and engaging, this popular history traces the science of aerodynamics from the age of Newton through the mid-twentieth century. Author Theodore von Karman, a well-known pioneer in aerodynamic research, addresses himself to readers acquainted with the facts of aviation but less familiar with the field's underlying theories.
A former director of the Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, von Karman founded the U.S. Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1933. In this volume, he employs straightforward, nontechnical language to recount the behind-the-scenes struggles of engineers and physicists with problems associated with lift, drag, stability, aeroelasticity, and the sound barrier. He explains how an increasing understanding of the motion of air and its forces on moving objects enabled significant improvements in airplane design, performance, and safety.
Other topics include the effects of speed on ailerons; the factors behind the phenomenon of a sonic boom; and the plethora of problems surrounding the inception of space travel: surmounting the earth's gravitational field, negotiating a safe return, and sustaining life amid the perils of interstellar radiation, weightlessness, and meteoric activity.
|isbn=
*0486434850
*978-0486434858
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Aerodynamics-Historical-Development-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486434850
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An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics

2024-02-07T00:44:42Z

Toner: Added the title 'An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics'

{{Title|title=An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
|author=Jack Moran
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This concise and highly readable introduction to theoretical and computational aerodynamics integrates both classical and modern developments, focusing on applying methods to actual wing design. Designed for a junior- or senior-level course and as a resource for practicing engineers, it features 221 figures.
|isbn=
*0486428796
*978-0486428796
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theoretical-Computational-Aerodynamics-Aeronautical/dp/0486428796
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Methods of Applied Mathematics

2024-02-07T00:43:09Z

Toner: Added the title 'Methods of Applied Mathematics'

{{Title|title=Methods of Applied Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
|author=Francis B. Hildebrand
|publisher=Dover Publications
|summary=This invaluable book offers engineers and physicists working knowledge of a number of mathematical facts and techniques not commonly treated in courses in advanced calculus, but nevertheless extremely useful when applied to typical problems in many different fields. It deals principally with linear algebraic equations, quadratic and Hermitian forms, operations with vectors and matrices, the calculus of variations, and the formulations and theory of linear integral equations. Annotated problems and exercises accompany each chapter.
|isbn=
*9780486670027
*978-0486670027
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Applied-Mathematics-Dover-Books/dp/0486670023
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Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry

2024-02-07T00:35:57Z

Toner: Added the title 'Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry'

{{Title|title=Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry, Expanded Edition
|author=Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert
|publisher=MIT Press
|summary=Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades. It marked a historical turn in artificial intelligence, and it is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the connectionist counterrevolution that is going on today. Artificial-intelligence research, which for a time concentrated on the programming of ton Neumann computers, is swinging back to the idea that intelligence might emerge from the activity of networks of neuronlike entities. Minsky and Papert's book was the first example of a mathematical analysis carried far enough to show the exact limitations of a class of computing machines that could seriously be considered as models of the brain. Now the new developments in mathematical tools, the recent interest of physicists in the theory of disordered matter, the new insights into and psychological models of how the brain works, and the evolution of fast computers that can simulate networks of automata have given Perceptrons new importance.Witnessing the swing of the intellectual pendulum, Minsky and Papert have added a new chapter in which they discuss the current state of parallel computers, review developments since the appearance of the 1972 edition, and identify new research directions related to connectionism. They note a central theoretical challenge facing connectionism: the challenge to reach a deeper understanding of how "objects" or "agents" with individuality can emerge in a network. Progress in this area would link connectionism with what the authors have called "society theories of mind." Marvin L. Minsky is Donner Professor of Science in M.I.T.'s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Seymour A. Papert is Professor of Media Technology at M.I.T. .
|isbn=
*0262631113
*978-0262631112
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Perceptrons-Introduction-Computational-Geometry-Expanded/dp/0262631113
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Fluid Mechanics: A Geometrical Point of View

2024-02-07T00:32:30Z

Toner: Added the title 'Fluid Mechanics: A Geometrical Point of View'

{{Title|title=Fluid Mechanics: A Geometrical Point of View
|author=S. G. Rajeev
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|summary=Fluid Mechanics: A Geometrical Point of View emphasizes general principles of physics illustrated by simple examples in fluid mechanics. Advanced mathematics (e.g., Riemannian geometry and Lie groups) commonly used in other parts of theoretical physics (e.g. General Relativity or High Energy Physics) are explained and applied to fluid mechanics. This follows on from the author's book Advanced Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

After introducing the fundamental equations (Euler and Navier-Stokes), the book provides particular cases: ideal and viscous flows, shocks, boundary layers, instabilities, and transients. A restrained look at integrable systems (KdV) leads into a formulation of an ideal fluid as a hamiltonian system. Arnold's deep idea, that the instability of a fluid can be understood using the curvature of the diffeomorphism group, will be explained. Leray's work on regularity of Navier-Stokes solutions, and the modern developments arising from it, will be explained in language for physicists.

Although this is a book on theoretical physics, readers will learn basic numerical methods: spectral and finite difference methods, geometric integrators for ordinary differential equations. Readers will take a deep dive into chaotic dynamics, using the Smale horse shoe as an example. Aref's work on chaotic advection is explained. The book concludes with a self-contained introduction to renormalization, an idea from high energy physics which is expected to be useful in developing a theory of turbulence.
|isbn=
*0198805039
*978-0198805038
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Fluid-Mechanics-Geometrical-Point-View/dp/0198805039
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Computational Geometry: Curve and Surface Modeling

2024-02-07T00:26:30Z

Toner: Added the title ''Computational Geometry: Curve and Surface Modeling

{{Title|title=Computational Geometry: Curve and Surface Modeling
|author=Su Bu-qing, Liu Ding-yuan, Chang Geng-Zhe (Translator)
|publisher=Academic Press
|summary=Computational Geometry: Curve and Surface Modeling provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of computational geometry. This book discusses the geometric properties of parametric polynomial curves by using the theory of affine invariants for algebraic curves. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the objects studies in computational geometry, namely surfaces and curves. This text then explores the developments in the theory and application of spline functions, which began with cubic spline functions. Other chapters consider the mechanical background of the cubic spline functions, which is the wooden spline with small deflection. This book discusses as well that in mathematical lofting the information of a geometric shape is given by a set of data points, while in geometric design other ways of representations are available. The final chapter deals with the concepts in the theory of algebraic curves. This book is a valuable resource for mathematicians.
|isbn=
*1483247139
*978-1483247137
|link=https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Geometry-Curve-Surface-Modeling/dp/1483247139
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