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Best textbooks/workbooks for these classes?

Hii!! im an upcoming aerospace engineering student and would appreciate if anyone can help me out with a few textbooks for these:

Aerospace Thermofluids
Solid Mechanics Materials and Manufacturing
Aerospace Systems Design
Fundamental Aero-Propulsion
Fundamental Aerodynamics
Structural Mechanics
Control Engineering
Aero Structures
Composite Engineering
Space Engineering

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by astr0star123
Hii!! im an upcoming aerospace engineering student and would appreciate if anyone can help me out with a few textbooks for these:

Aerospace Thermofluids
Solid Mechanics Materials and Manufacturing
Aerospace Systems Design
Fundamental Aero-Propulsion
Fundamental Aerodynamics
Structural Mechanics
Control Engineering
Aero Structures
Composite Engineering
Space Engineering

Quite a wide range of topics, I would perhaps try and brake it down a little bit differently.

Rather than go for “aerospace thermofluids” i think you are better off searching for fundamentals of fluid mechanics/aerodynamics and a separate book of thermodynamics & heat transfer. Once you’ve done this you can then look at further books which focus on aircraft aerodynamics, thermal engine cycles with a focus on aircraft applications.

Basically start from fundamentals, build an understanding of the first principles then work up to complex and specific applications.

In terms of books, you will find university library search services and academic search engines such as google scholar/science direct and your best bet, i also would probably start looking at free lectures on YouTube and lecture notes/syllabus notes on google (lots of professors have put this on the internet in PDF form), often these are better then books as they are largely the same material but put together in a series of smaller pdfs rather than a 500 page file.

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