A classic in its field, Professor Milne-Thomson's university text and reference book has long been one of the basic works. This is the complete reprinting of the revised (1966) edition which brings the subject up to date, including a complete and probably unique chapter on conical flow around sweptback wings. A wealth of problems, illustrations and cross-references add to the book's value as a text and a reference. | PROPELLER ROTATING IN A WATER STREAM The photograph shows cavitation bubbles of water vapour leaving the blades and thus making visible the vortices in the slipstream THEORETICAL AERODYNAMICS BY L. M. MILNE-THOMSON . Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics University of Arizona Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Naval College Professor of Applied Mathematics in Brown University Professor in the Mathematics Research Center at The University of Wisconsin Visiting Professor at the Universities of Rome Queensland Calgary Otago FOURTH EDITION Revised and enlarged DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC NEW YORK The time will come when thou ehalt lift thine eyes To watch a long drawn battle in the skies While aged peasants too amazed for words Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds Thomas Gbay Luna Habitabilis 1737 Copyright 1958 by L. M. Milne-Thomson. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by General Publishing Company Ltd. 30 Lesmill Road Don Mills Toronto Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company Ltd. 10 Orange Street London WC 2. This Dover edition first published in 1973 is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the fourth edition 1966 of the work originally published by Macmillan and Company Limited in 1958. International Standard Book Number 0-486-61980-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-85109 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications Inc. 180 Varick Street New York N. Y. I00I4 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The airflow round an aircraft is a phenomenon of high complexity. To study it in the present state of our knowledge demands simplifying assumptions. These must be largely based on experimental observation of what actually happens that is one aspect of the practical side of aerodynamics. To make mathematical deductions and predictions belong to the theoretical side and it is the theoretical side with which this book
