📚 Aerodynamics

Air as a surface to negotiate: lift, drag and the wind-tunnel tradition that shaped wings and cars.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject aerodynamics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Experiments in aerodynamics	Samuel Pierpont Langley	1891	11
	Theoretical aerodynamics	L. M. Milne-Thomson	1948	9
	Aero-hydrodynamics of sailing	Czesław A. Marchaj	1979	9
	Aerodynamics for engineers	John J. Bertin	1979	9
	The elements of aerofoil and airscrew theory	Hermann Glauert	1926	8
	Mechanics of flight	A. C. Kermode	1934	7
	Foundations of aerodynamics	Arnold M. Kuethe	1950	7
	Tables for the compressible flow of dry air	E. L. Houghton	1961	7
	Aerodynamics of wind turbines	Martin O. L. Hansen	2008	7
	Fundamentals of Modern Unsteady Aerodynamics	Ülgen Gülçat	2010	7
	Aircraft dynamics	Marcello R. Napolitano	2011	7
	Theoretical Aerodynamics	Ethirajan Rathakrishnan	2013	7
	Aircraft Performance	Mohammad H. Sadraey	2017	7
	Aerodynamics	Norman Augustus Victor Piercy	1937	6
	Airplane performance stability and control	Courtland D. Perkins	1949	6
	Sail power	Wallace Ross	1975	6
	Aerodynamics for Engineers	John J. Bertin	2008	6
	Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics	Tapan K. Sengupta	2014	6
	Aerodynamics	F. W. Lanchester	1907	5
	Aerodonetics	F. W. Lanchester	1908	5
	Technical aerodynamics	Karl Dawson Wood	1933	5
	Airplane aerodynamics	Daniel Otto Dommasch	1951	5
	Aerodynamics of the helicopter	Alfred Gessow	1952	5
	Model Aircraft Aerodynamics	Martin Simons	1978	5
	Aerodynamik des Automobils	Wolf-Heinrich Hucho	1981	5
	An analysis of three-dimensional transonic compressors	Antoine Bourgeade	1983	5
	The Simple Science of Flight	Henk Tennekes	1997	5
	Applied aerodynamics	Leonard Bairstow	1920	4
	Aérodynamique expérimentale	Pierre Rebuffet	1945	4
	Aero-thermodynamics and flow in turbomachines	Michael Hans Vavra	1960	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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