AE2251 AERODYNAMICS AE 2251 AERODYNAMICS

AE2251 AERODYNAMICS – I SYLLABUS  3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVE

To understand the behaviour of airflow over bodies with particular emphasis on airfoil

sections in the incompressible flow regime.

1. REVIEW OF BASIC FLUID MECHANICS 4

Continuity, momentum and energy equations.

2. TWO DIMENSIONAL FLOWS 12

Basic flows – Source, Sink, Free and Forced vortex, uniform parallel flow. Their

combinations, Pressure and velocity distributions on bodies with and without circulation

in ideal and real fluid flows.

3. GENERATION OF LIFT 8

Kutta Joukowski’s theorem. Kutta condition. Blasius theorem.

4. AIRFOIL AND WING THEORY 12

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.

5. VISCOUS FLOW 9

Newton’s law of viscosity, Boundary Layer, Navier-Stokes equation, displacement,

Momentum thickness, Flow over a flat plate, Blasins solution.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Anderson, J.D., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New

York, 1998. (VISIT            http://aimforhigh.blogspot.com)

REFERENCES

1. Houghton, E.L., and Carruthers, N.B., “Aerodynamics for Engineering students”,

Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 1989.

2. Milne Thomson, L.H., “Theoretical aerodynamics”, Macmillan, 1985.

3. Clancey, L.J., “Aerodynamics”, Pitman, 1986