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Dept     : AERO
Sem      : 4
Regul    : 2023
Faculty : Ramesh M
phone  : NIL
E-mail  : ramesh.m.aero@snsct.org
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Syllabus

UNIT
1
BASIC AERODYNAMICS AND FLUID MECHANICS

Introduction to Aerodynamics, Aerodynamic forces and moments, Centre of pressure, Non-dimensional analysis, and flow similarity, Buoyancy forces, Types of flows, Continuity Equation, Momentum Equation, Energy Equation

UNIT
2
INCOMPRESSIBLE AND INVISCID FLOWS

Velocity potential and stream function, Angular velocity, vorticity and strain, Elementary flows for uniform, source and sink, Doublets and vortex flows, Superposition of elementary flows, Pressure and velocity distributions, Pressure and velocity distributions on bodies with and without circulation in ideal fluid flow, Rotational and Irrotational flow, Bernoulli’s equation, Pitot tube

UNIT
3
PARAMETERS FOR AIRFOIL AND WING CHARACTERISTICS

Airfoil and wing geometry parameters, Wing of finite span, lift, drag, Lift/drag ratio, Circulation and generation of lift, Thin airfoil theory, Kutta condition, High lift airfoil section

UNIT
4
NORMAL, OBLIQUE SHOCKS AND EXPANSION WAVES

Prandtl equation and Rankine Hugoniot relation, Normal shock equations, Pitot static tube, corrections for subsonic and supersonic flows, Oblique shocks and corresponding equations, Hodograph and pressure turning angle, Shock polar, Rayleigh and Fanno Flow, Flow past convex corners, Expansion hodograph, Methods of Characteristics

UNIT
5
VISCOUS FLOW

Introduction to viscous flows, Navier - Stokes equations, Boundary layer properties, Boundary layer, displacement, momentum thickness, boundary layer equations, Boundary conditions, Incompressible boundary layer flow over a flat plate, Problem solving on boundary layer, displacement, momentum thickness, Blasius solution

Reference Book:

1. Houghton, E.L., and Carpenters, N.B., “Aerodynamics for Engineering students”, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 1989. 2. Bertin, J. J., Aerodynamics for Engineers, Pearson Education, Fourth Edition, 2002. 3. Clancy, L.J., “Aerodynamics”, Pitman, 1986.

Text Book:

1. Anderson, J.D., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1985. 2. Ethirajan Rathakrishnan “Theoretical Aerodynamics” , Wiley 2013.