M447 :
AERODYNAMICS
LECTURE
AGENDA
- Incompressible Airfoil Theory
- Review of Fundamental Concepts and Principles of Fluid Motion
- Elements of Potential Flow, Notions of Complex Potential
- Wings and Airfoil Sections
- Incompressible Thin Airfoil Theory and Applications
- Compressible Airfoil Theory
- Introduction to High Speed Flow
- Review of Thermodynamic Concepts Applied to Compressible Flow
- Normal and Oblique Shock Relations
- Supersonic Flow Turning and Prandtl-Meyer Function
- Compressible Potential Flow Theory
- Airfoils in Compressible Flow - Subsonic Regime
- Airfoils in Compressible Flow - Supersonic Regime
- Airfoils in Compressible Flow - Transonic Regime
- Finite Wing and Body Aerodynamics
(General aerodynamic characteristics of aircraft wings and bodies in
Subsonic,
Transonic and Supersonic flight regimes)
- Flow fields around finite wings. Downwash and Induced
Drag. Vorticity and Wing Vortex Systems.
- Low Speed/Subsonic Finite Wing Theory. Elliptic Lift
distribution.
Twisted Wings.
- Non-linear lift for low aspect ratio wings.
- Wings in Compressible Flow.
- Aerodynamics of Swept Wings.
- Slender body Aerodynamics.
- Similarity Rules for High Speed Flows. Transonic Area Rule.
- Aerodynamic Characteristics of Flight Vehicles
- Wing-Body Interference and Estimation of Wing-Body Lifting
Characteristics
- Components of Drag and the Airplane Drag Polar
- Estimation of Airplane Drag Polar for Aircraft Configurations
- High Lift Systems. Circulation Control Wing.
- Drag Reduction Techniques
- Brief Qualitative Insight into Helicopter Aerodynamics
TUTORIAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS
- Assignment 1-Potential Flow Theory
- Assignment 2-Incompressible Thin Airfoil Theory
- Assignment 3-Gas Dynamics Fundamentals
- Assignment 4-Compressible Airfoil Theory
- Assignment 5-Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies
- Assignment 6- Aerodynamic Characteristics of Aircraft