Best GATE Books for Aerospace Engineering

After completing B.E. or B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering you can sit for GATE examamination (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) to take admission to any IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), or any other institutes where M.Tech in Aerospace engineering is available to pursue master's degree in Aerospace. To take proper preparation for GATE exam, admission or entrance exams, here is a list of best books for Aerospace Engineering.

Aerodynamics:

• Fundamentals of Aerodynamics - John D. Anderson Jr.
• Introduction to flight - Anderson
• Aerodynamics for Engineering Students - Houghton and Carpenter
• Aerodynamics - Clancy

Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, by the curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air & Space Museum Smithsonian Institute and professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, is a must-have book for all in this field, new aerospace students, aerospace engineers, and for those who working or studying in this field. The Purdue University Textbook is very easy to read and understand. I highly recommended both John D. Anderson's books; they are both required textbook of top aerospace engineering institutes, important and easy to follow.

Flight Mechanics:

• Introduction to flight - John Anderson
• Aircraft Performance & Design - Anderson
• Flight Stability and Automatic Control - Robert C Nelson

Space Mechanics:

• Rocket Propulsion and space Dynamics - Cornelisse
• Space Mechanics - Nelson, Walter C.; Loft, Ernest E.
• Introduction To Space Dynamics - Thomson, William Tyrrell

Structures:

• Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures - Bruhn
• Analysis of Aircraft Structures: An Introduction -Donaldson
• Aircraft structures for engineering students - T.H.G. Megson

Propulsion:

• Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion - Hill and Peterson
• Gas Turbine Theory - H.I.H. Saravanamuttoo, G.F.C. Rogers, H. Cohen, Paul Straznicky
• Elements of Rocket Propulsion - George P. Sutton and Oscar Biblarz
• Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook by Meherwan P. Boyce Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME USA) and Fellow The Institute of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers (IDGTE U.K.).

Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion by Philip Hill and Carl Peterson in Aerospace Propulsion Technology has 760 pages. Publisher: Prentice Hall. All of the top Aerospace Engineering schools around the world use this book because it is an excellent source of information for jet and rocket propulsion systems, thermodynamics and aerodynamics. The 'Gas Turbine Theory' is also an excellent book for both Aerospace and gas turbine engineering and suitable for students of mechanical and aeronautical engineering. It is a great way to understand thermodynamic and aerodynamic better.

Maths:

• Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Erwin Kreyszig
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics by K. A. Stroud
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Dennis G. Zill and Warren S. Wright

Most engineering students purchase Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig because, this is a required textbook. And, the newer edition of Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Loyola Marymount University Dennis G Zill, Loyola Marymount University Warren S Wright is already an Amazon.com Best Seller. For basic fundamentals you can buy "Flight without Formulae" and "Mechanics of Flight", both by A.C. Kermode.