Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope

Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
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By:"Irwin E. Alber"
"Technology & Engineering"
Published on 2012-03-05 by Springer Science & Business Media

In my more than forty years working as an \u003cb\u003eengineer\u003c/b\u003e on a variety of increasingly \u003cbr\u003e\ndifficult problems in the \u003cb\u003eaerospace\u003c/b\u003e industry, I have come to appreciate the strong \u003cbr\u003e\ncomputer-assisted design and analysis skills of many of my younger colleagues.

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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.

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