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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

436-304 Aerodynamics

Credit Points:

7.1

Coordinator:

Professor A. E. Perry

Prerequisite/s:

436-200 Fundamental Fluid Mechanics and 200-level Mathematics.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

26 hours of lectures, 13 hours of tutorials and laboratory work

Objectives:

On completion students should:

  • be able to use complex velocity potential analysis to solve a variety of inviscid flow problems including incompressible flow past airfoils;

  • be familiar with theory of thin airfoils;

  • be familiar with gas dynamics in subsonic and supersonic flow;

  • be able to apply shock expansion theory to the solution of flow in a variety of situations including prediction of lift and drag of two dimensional bodies in supersonic flow;

  • be able to apply Ackeret or linear theory to thin airfoils;

  • be aware of viscous effects and boundary layer - shock wave interactions.

Content:

Complex potentials, conformal transformations, Kutta condition and Joukowski airfoils, basic gas dynamics, isentropic flow in nozzles, non-isentropic flow, shock wave theory, Prandtl - Meyer expansion and compressions, Ackeret theory.

Assessment:

A three-hour examination: tutorials tests, assignments and laboratory reports not exceeding 20 pages.
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