Aerodynamics detailed syllabus for Aerospace Engineering (Aerospace Engg) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Aerospace Engg students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Aerospace Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Aerospace Engg 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of aerodynamics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO LOW-SPEED FLOW 9 Incompressible Bernoullis equation – circulation and vorticity – Greens lemma and Stokes theorem – barotropic flow – Kelvins theorem.
Unit II
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Unit III
CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION 9 Kutta Joukowskis theorem – Joukowski transformation and its application to fluid flow problems – Schwartz-Christoffer transformation – Kutta condition – Blasius theorem. Joukowski, Karman – Trefftz, Profiles – Thin aerofoil theory and its applications – Vortex line – Horse shoe vortex – Biot and Savart law – Lifting line theory and its limitations.
Unit V
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Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Calculate the airspeed, static and dynamic pressure of the flow at any point using Continuity and Bernoulli equations.
- Illustrate the effect of airflow on an aircraft and its components using the laws of physics and fundamental mathematical methods
- Solve lift generation problems using aerofoil theories
- Apply the conformal transformation and its application to fluid flow problems
- Examine the fluid flow characteristics over aerofoils, wings, and airplanes.
- Examine the shock phenomenon and fluid waves.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Bertin, J. J. and Cummings, R. M., Aerodynamics for Engineers, 6th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2013.
- Drela, M., Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics, MIT Press, 2014.
- Houghton, E. L., Carpenter, P. W., Collicott, S. H., and Valentine, D. T., Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, 6th Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012.
- Kuethe, A. M. and Chow, C. Y., Foundations of Aerodynamics, 5th Ed., John Wiley, 1998.
- Milne Thomson, L.H., Theoretical aerodynamics, Dover Publications, 2011.
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