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436-304 Aerodynamics | |
Credit Points | 7.1 |
Coordinator | Professor A. E. Perry |
Prerequisites | 436-303 Fluid and Thermal Sciences and 200-level Mathematics |
Semester | 2 |
Contact | 24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of tutorials and laboratory work |
Subject Description | 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. |
Assessment | One examination not exceeding three-hours: tutorials tests, assignments and laboratory reports not exceeding 20 pages |
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