HISTORICAL

• History of Supersonic Flight (Selkirk College, School of Aviation)
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

REFERENCE DATA

• MEGACONVERTER unit conversion
• 1976 US Standard Atmosphere (Ilan Kroo, Stanford U. )
• AIR -- air thermodyamic and transport properties; (W. M. Kays, Stanford U)
• FLIGHT -- calcs for aero/flight US Standard Atmosphere; (Rob Kennelly, NASA Ames )
• Aerodynamics for Students, (D. Auld, Univ. Sydney
• Aviation Weekly
• American Institude of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Engineering Student Survival Guide

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW CODE / CFD SOLVERS

• Compressible Flow Calculator I, Applet, (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech.)
• Compressible Flow Calculator II, WEB browser-based, Isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (Aerospace Web)
• Aerodynamic Flow Calculator; WEB browser applet, for isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech.)
• Compressible Flow Calculation Applets, (Purdue )
• Compressible Flow Spreadsheet, (R. Ribando, U Va.)
• Shock Calculator for perfect and real gases, WEB browser-based applet, for isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech. )
• Supersonic Wing calculation by shock-expansion theory, (E. Kudriavitski )
• JAVA VIRTUAL WIND TUNNEL from MIT.
• NOZZLE, applet for computing 1-D nozzle flows, (Prof. Devenport, Virginia Tech)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics ("CFD") software list (commercial, shareware, public domain, freeware)
• Transonic Small Disturbance Solver, (K. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School )

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW VISUALIZATION

• Condensation on F-14 in water fly-over
• eFluids extensive library of flow vis images
• Shock wave dynamics movie clips provided by ITS Corp.
• Gallery of Fluid Dynamics at Virginia Tech
• Schlieren Photography Principles
• NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center's Dryden Photo Gallery

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