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Dept     : AERO
Sem      : 4
Regul    : 2019
Faculty : Ramesh M
phone  : NIL
E-mail  : ramesh.m.aero@snsct.org
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UNIT
1
REVIEW OF BASIC FLUID MECHANICS

Continuity - 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 – Review of Vector relations – Models of the fluid: Control volume and fluid element Lab experiment: ● Water flow visualization method ● Pressure distribution over a symmetric aerofoil

UNIT
2
AIRFOIL AND WING THEORY

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 – Numerical nonlinear lifting lone theory – Three dimensional incompressible flow Lab experiment: ● Pressure distribution over various airfoil models. ● Determination of lift for the given airfoil section.

UNIT
3
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 polars – Rayleigh and Fanno Flow – Flow past convex corners - Expansion hodograph - Reflection and interaction of shocks and expansion waves - Methods of Characteristics - Two-dimensional supersonic nozzle contours. Lab experiment: ● Generation of lift in the tip vortices ● Flow visualization in smoke tunnel

UNIT
4
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR STEADY COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS

Small perturbation potential theory - Solutions for supersonic flows - Mach waves and Mach angles – Prandtl Glauert affine transformation relations for subsonic flows - Lift, drag pitching moment and center of pressure of supersonic profiles – Three dimensional incompressible flows – Subsonic compressible flow over airfoils – linear theory - Linearised Supersonic flow theory – Linearised Velocity potential equation – CFD applications: Transonic Airfoil and wings – Supercritical airfoils Lab experiment: ● Flow visualization studies in subsonic speeds ● Pressure distribution over a symmetric aerofoil

UNIT
5
AIRFOIL IN HIGH-SPEED FLOWS & HIGH-SPEED WIND TUNNELS

Lower and upper critical Mach numbers - Lift and drag divergence - shock induced separation - Characteristics of swept wings - Effects of thickness, camber and aspect ratio of wings - Transonic area Rule - Tip effects - Blow down, in draft and induction tunnel layouts and their design features - Wind tunnel types – Helium and gun tunnels - Shock tubes - Optical methods of flow visualization. Lab experiment: ● Calibration of subsonic wind tunnel

Reference Book:

1. Aerodynamics for Engineering Students 1986 Houghton E L &Carruthers N B. 2. Boundary‐Layer Theory, H Schlichting and K Gersten springer 2003. 3. L J Clancy,‖Aerodynamics‖ Paperback 2006. 4. Frank M White,‖Fluid Mechanics in S.I Units‖ Paperback 2017. 5. John J.Bertin, ―Aerodynamics for Engineers‖, Fourth edition,Pearson 2012

Text Book:

1. Anderson, J.D., ―Fundamentals of Aerodynamics‖, McGraw‐Hill Book Co., New York, fifth edition 2010 2. Ethirajan Rathakrishnan‖ Theoretical Aerodynamics ―Wiley 2013.

 

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