Today I paid a visit to the Stanford Bookstore, as I'm wont to do from
time to time to collect citations of books on space and astronautics. I
found 23 titles of interest this time, and I'll list a few here as either
"recommended" or "worth checking out". In rating the books, I didn't
consider price -- only content relating to ERPS activities. NOTE: These
assessments are based only on a brief examination.
RECOMMENDED
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Computational Flight Dynamics
Malcolm J. Abzug
Reston, VA: AIAA Press, 1998
1-56347-259-7 470p SC/GSI $101.50
Includes floppy disk. Fortran source provided as listings (and on disk?)
Focused on teaching the computational methods; assumes a deep
knowledge of aerodynamics theory.
Aerospace Materials
B. Cantor, H. Assender, P. Grant (editors)
Bristol, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001
0-7503-0742-0 312p HC/GSI $65.00
Based on presentations at the First Oxford-Kobe Materials Seminar,
Kobe Institute, 22-25 September 1998. Well edited, with much
information on alloys and composites for structural applications (but
nothing about tanks, alas).
Keys to Space: An Interdiscipline Approach to Space Studies
A. Houston & M. Rycroft (editors)
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999
0-07-029438-0 about 300p SC/LF/BWI $43.50
The authors are with the International Space University. Their book
covers every topic you would associate with space travel. I didn't evaluate
the depth of the treatments, but the sheer scope makes it worthwhile.
And I did note that it covers economics and business extensively.
Spacecraft Power Technologies
A. K. Hyder (University of Notre Dame)
R. L. Wiley (Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.)
G. Halpert (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
D. J. Flood (NASA Glenn Research Center)
S. Sabripour (Lockheed Martin CPC)
London: Imperial College Press, 2000
Covers electrical power generation, storage, distribution, control, and
thermal considerations.
WORTH CHECKING OUT
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Computational Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction
Jean-Jacques Chattot (Professor, Dept. of Mechanical & Aeronautical
Engineering, UC Davis)
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002
3-540-43494-1 186p HC/GSI $54.95
More concerned with aircraft than rockets; but may shed some light on
flutter.
Introduction to Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity
Dewey H. Hodges (Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology)
G. Alvin Pierce (Professor Emeritus, School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
0-521-80698-4 170p HC/GSI $55.00
The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare
Michael Russell Rip
James M. Hasik
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002
1-55750-973-5 552p HC/BWI $65.50
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