This note covers the following
topics: The aerodynamic forces, Practical applications, Fundamental flow
parameters, Flow regimes, Critical Mach numbers, Drag of an aircraft, Wing
geometry, Airfoil aerodynamic characteristics, Hydrostatics, Stevino’s law,
Fluid particle kinematics, Streamlines and strakelines, Conservation of mass,
Bernoulli’s theorem, Two-dimensional flow, Pressure and forces on the cylinder,
Rotating circular cylinder, Thin airfoil theory, Schrenk’s method, The
turbulence, Fluid particle kinematics, Supersonic, thin and cambered airfoil,
Normal shock waves, Transonic flow.
This
note explains the following topics: introduction to gas dynamics, Conservation
laws, Fundamentals of compressible fluid flow and Shock Phenomena, Aerodynamic
drag, transonic flow and helicopter aerodynamics and also covers computational
fluid dynamics and practical applications like wind tunnel testing techniques.
Author(s): International Islamic University Malaysia
This note covers the following
topics: Kinematics of a Fluid Element, Stress-Strain Relationship for a
Newtonian Fluid, Brequet Range Equation, Coordination Transformations for Strain
and Stress Rates, Equations of Aircraft Motion, Viscous Flow, Integral Boundary
Layer Equations, Correlation Methods for Integral Boundary Layers, Falkner-Skan
Flows, Three-Dimensional Wall Effects, Subsonic Small Disturbance Potential
Flow, Waves in 1D Compressible Flow, Normal Shock Waves, Linearized Compressible
Potential Flow Governing Equation, Oblique Shock Waves, Prandtl-Meyer Expansion
Waves, Computational Methods for the Euler Equations, Solution Convergence.