Aerodynamics - AERO3630
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.mech.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MMAN2600
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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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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