Aerospace engineering on the back of an envelope /
Engineers need to acquire "Back-of-the-Envelope" survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems, particularly when working on projects with enormous complexity and very limited resources. In the case studies treated in this book, we show step-by-step examples o...
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Corporate Author: | |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2012.
|
Series: | Springer Praxis Books
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Click here to view the full text content |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Summary: | Engineers need to acquire "Back-of-the-Envelope" survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems, particularly when working on projects with enormous complexity and very limited resources. In the case studies treated in this book, we show step-by-step examples of the physical arguments and the resulting calculations obtained using the quick-fire method. We also demonstrate the estimation improvements that can be obtained through the use of more detailed physics-based Back-of-the-Envelope engineering models. These different methods are used to obtain the solutions to a number of design and performance estimation problems arising from two of the most complex real-world engineering projects: the Space Shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope satellite. |
---|---|
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXI, 326 pages) 98 illustration, 73 illustration in colour digital. |
ISBN: | 9783642225376 |