UNDERGRADUATE HIGH SPEED AERODYNAMICS

 

Course Syllabus

 

1.         Review

2-D Airfoil Theory   Thin  Airfoil theory  Panel method  Panel Code Panel Code sample Input

Gas dynamics

Normal Shock Calculator

Oblique Shock Calculator

Conservation equations

 

2.         Compressible potential flow equation

 

3.         Small-disturbance form of potential equation

Linearized Potential Equation

Linearized Pressure Coefficient

Boundary Conditions

Subsonic Similarity 2-D 

Airfoils in Supersonic Flow

 

4.         Nonlinear techniques for supersonic flows

Shock-expansion technique

Busemann 2nd-order theory

Sources of drag

Drag coefficient

 

5.                  Method of characteristics for supersonic flow

Nozzle design Theory

2-D Nozzle design code: nozdes3.m  Prandtl-Meyer find nu given Mach number  Prandtl-Meyer find Mach number given nu

6.                  Wings and Bodies in Compressible Flow
Wings in subsonic flow
Bodies of revolution in subsonic flow
Bodies of revolution in supersonic flow

 

 

Critical Mach Number

7.         Transonic aerodynamics

Airfoils in Transonic Flow

Supercritical airfoils

Transonic Drag Rise

Variation of Lift with M

Sweep

Supersonic and Subsonic Leading Edges

Transonic Area Rule

 

 

8.   Introduction to Hypersonic flow

 

 

9.         Review of boundary layer theory  (Derviation of Equations) BL Properties  BL Summary

 

10.         Methods for predicting laminar boundary layer effects Thwaites’ Method   Application to a Cylinder

  

11.       Transition to turbulence; physics of turbulence    Transition Models    Head’s Method

 

12.       Reynolds averaging and models for turbulent stresses

 

13.      Compressibility Effects and High Speed Aerodynamic heating Effects