AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING


INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW AERODYNAMICS


UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO LOW SPEED FLOW                                                    

Models of the fluid: control volumes and fluid elements. Continuity, Momentum and energy equations. Substantial derivative, Vorticity and circulation, stream function, irrotational flow, velocity potential, Euler equation, incompressible Bernoulli’s equation.


UNIT-IITWO DIMENSIONAL INVISCID INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW             

Laplace Equation, Elementary flows and their combinations, Ideal Flow over a circular cylinder, Alembert’s paradox, Magnus effect, Kuttajoukowski’s theorem, real flow over smooth and rough cylinder


UNIT-III AIRFOIL THEORY                                                                               

Cauchy-Riemann relations, complex potential, methodology of conformal transformation, Kutta-Joukowski transformation and its applications, Kuttacondition, kelvin’scirculation theorem, starting vortex, thin airfoil theory and its applications.


UNIT-IV WING THEORY      

Vortex filament, Biot-savart law, Helmholtz Theorems bound vortex and trailing vortex, horse shoe vortex, lifting line theory and its limitations.


UNIT-V VISCOUS FLOW                   

Newton’s law of viscosity, Boundary Layer, Navier-Stokes equation, displacement, Momentum thickness, Flow over a flat plate, Blasius solution.