UNSW Handbook Course - Aerodynamics and Propulsion

Aerodynamics and Propulsion - AERO3610


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
	Course Outline: http://www.mech.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 6
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: MECH2612, MECH2712
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Inviscid conservation relations. Potential flow source, sink, doublet and point vertex; superposition with uniform flow. Airfoil formation and Kutta condition. Two dimensional incompressible flows around thin airfoils. Incompressible flow about wings of finite span. Experimental techniques. Introduction to propulsion systems; history, types, basic thrust, efficiency equations, propellors, rotors and fans.

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