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Aerodynamics - AERO3630
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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: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: MMAN2600 and Corequisite: AERO3650
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Inviscid conservation relations. Potential Flow. Airfoil formation and Kutta condition. Incompressible flows around thin airfoils and wings with finite span. Introduction to wind tunnel, instrumentation and testing. One-dimensional gas flows. Compressible potential flow. Thermodynamic and sonic speed relation, Mach number, isentropic relationships. Prandtl-Myer flow, normal and oblique shock waves. Method of characteristics. Small perturbation theory. Viscous flow. Methods of calculating viscous drag.

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