Aerospace Engineering Technical Elective Program - Focus Areas

This book details the science of hypersonics focusing on propulsion aspects such as supersonic combustion ramjets and their applications. It also includes lift and drag in hypersonic flight and their mathematical and physical explanation. It provides charts and data from hypersonic testing and measurements from actual vehicles and engines built in the past. Criteria to dimension hypersonic powered and unpowered vehicles (gliders) based on fundamental fluid dynamics and backed by flight testing.

This book presents a complete look at high-enthalpy hypersonic flow from a review of classic theories to a discussion of future advances centering around the Born-Oppenheim approximation, potential energy surface, and critical point for transition. The state-of-the art hypersonic flows are defined by a seamless integration of the classic gas dynamic kinetics with nonequilibrium chemical kinetics, quantum transitions, and radiative heat transfer.

This book is to provide the mathematical models and algorithms needed to develop a thorough understanding of all control system functions of a rigid body spacecraft. Relatively simple, but practically applicable algorithms are presented rather than recent advances.

The book explores the latest in spacecraft design processes and trades, controls, operations, and protection. It is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering students taking courses in Space Systems, Space Engineering, and Spacecraft Power Systems, as well as practicing aerospace and power engineers and managers who are designing, developing, and operating spacecraft power systems.

This is a working resource for health physicists and other radiation protection professionals. It presents up-to-date explanations of the basic physics necessary to address real-world problems in radiation protection. Designed for readers with limited as well as basic science backgrounds, it emphasizes applied concepts and carefully illustrates all topics through examples as well as practice problems.

This book provides an excellent introduction to fundamental topics in radiation protection, including energetics, kinetics, interaction, external radiation protection, dosimetry, standards, and measurement. Chapters on radioactive waste and radon have been incorporated as well. An extensive glossary of terms, abbreviations, acronyms, physical constants, units, and unit conversions provides a ready source of frequently needed information.