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This book presents experimental techniques in the field of
aerodynamics, a discipline that is essential in numerous areas,
such as the design of aerial and ground vehicles and engines, the
production of energy, and understanding the wind resistance of
buildings. Aerodynamics is not only concerned with improving the
performance and comfort of vehicles, but also with reducing their
environmental impact. The book provides updated information on the
experimental and technical methods used by aerodynamicists,
engineers and researchers. It describes the various types of wind
tunnels - from subsonic to hypersonic - as well as the problems
posed by their design and operation. The book also focuses on
metrology, which has allowed us to gain a detailed understanding of
the local properties of flows, and examines current developments
toward creating a methodology combining experiments and numerical
simulations: the computer-assisted wind tunnel. Lastly, it offers
an overview of experimental aerodynamics based on a prospective
vision of the discipline, and discusses potential futures
challenges. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate courses
in aerodynamics, typically offered to students of aerospace and
mechanical engineering programs, and as a learning tool for
professionals and engineers in the fields of aerodynamics,
aeronautics and astronautics automobile.
This volume contains the description of an EC-sponsered program to
study all relevant aspects of shock/ boundary-layer interaction
control, the latter designed to improve aircraft performance at
design (cruise) and off-design conditions. The work being presented
includes a discussion of basic control experiments and the
corresponding physical modeling, to account for shock control and a
discussion of the airfoil experiments conducted for code validation
and control assessment, in conjunction with the basic experiments
and computations. The contents is comprised of a section giving a
broad overview of the research carried out here and more detailed
individual contributions by the participants in the research.
Der Band enthalt den Abschlussbericht eines von EU geforderten
Projekts EUROSHOCK, das alle relevanten Aspekte der Kontrolle von
Stossfronten und Grenzschichten (wichtig z.B. fur die Verbesserung
der Flugeigenschaften von Fluzeugen) untersuchte. Neben einer
ausfuhrlichen Diskussion der grundlegenden Kontrollexperimente und
der zugrundeliegenden Modellierung werden auch die Versuche an
Tragflachen beschrieben, die zur Validierung von Modellrechnungen
durchgefuhrt werden. Daruber hinaus enthalt der Band auch die
detaillierten Ergebnisse der Teilnehmer an dem Forschungsprogramm."
This book presents experimental techniques in the field of
aerodynamics, a discipline that is essential in numerous areas,
such as the design of aerial and ground vehicles and engines, the
production of energy, and understanding the wind resistance of
buildings. Aerodynamics is not only concerned with improving the
performance and comfort of vehicles, but also with reducing their
environmental impact. The book provides updated information on the
experimental and technical methods used by aerodynamicists,
engineers and researchers. It describes the various types of wind
tunnels - from subsonic to hypersonic - as well as the problems
posed by their design and operation. The book also focuses on
metrology, which has allowed us to gain a detailed understanding of
the local properties of flows, and examines current developments
toward creating a methodology combining experiments and numerical
simulations: the computer-assisted wind tunnel. Lastly, it offers
an overview of experimental aerodynamics based on a prospective
vision of the discipline, and discusses potential futures
challenges. The book can be used as a textbook for graduate courses
in aerodynamics, typically offered to students of aerospace and
mechanical engineering programs, and as a learning tool for
professionals and engineers in the fields of aerodynamics,
aeronautics and astronautics automobile.
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio
de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Lery's "History
of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil." Lery had undertaken his
fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the
first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents
the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid
early European accounts of life in the New World.
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