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This volume collects the scientific works of Tsien Hsue-shen accomplished during his stay in the United States as a graduate student, scientist and professor and published in the period of 1938∼1956, when the aeronautic exploration stepped from low-speed to high-speed regimes and astronautic technology entered its infant stage.

In these papers, he addressed and solved a series of key problems in aerodynamics, stability of shells, rocket ballistics and engine analyses, etc., some of which were path-breaking. Starting from 1946, with his strategic wisdom, Tsien Hsue-shen made pioneering contributions to some fields, such as jet propulsion, engineering cybernetics, physical mechanics and engineering sciences, and so on. All these ...

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