Appropriate for physics and aeronautical engineering students, this graduate textbook addresses the problem of determining the details of the flow field around a body placed in a high velocity gas stream, introducing small disturbance theory, Newtonian flow theory, and various theories for thin shock layers related to Newtonian theory. Previously published by Academic Press as Hypersonic flow theory in 1959 and as Hypersonic flow theory, 2d ed., vol. I: inviscid flows in 1966. The Dover reprint adds a brief preface. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
