Course

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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