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Lecture Notes
Dear Students the Lecture Notes has been uploaded for the following topics: Introduction to basic Aerodynamics, Continuity equation, Momentum & energy equations, Aerodynamic forces and Moments, Viscous flow - Newton‘s law of viscosity- Viscous boundary layer, Methods to delay Flow Separation Flow over a flat plate, Blasius solution – Navier Stokes equation, Airfoils Nomenclature and NACA series - Airfoil Characteristics, Vortex sheet - Kelvin Circulation theorem - Thin aerofoil theory and its applications, Introduction to Finite wing - Downwash and Induced Drag, Biot Savart law and Helmhotz‘s theorems - Horse shoe vortex, Prandtl‘s Classical Lifting line theory and its limitations, Prandtl equation and Rankine Hugoniot relation, Normal shock equations - Pitot static tube, corrections for subsonic and supersonic flows, Rayleigh and Fanno Flow – Flow past convex corners, Expansion hodograph - Reflection and interaction of shocks and expansion waves