Aerodynamics
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The official GTU curriculum for Aerodynamics (subject code BE05001021) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 53 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05001021)Unit 1 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
- Types of Airfoils
- Airfoil Nomenclature and its characteristics
- NACA series
- Applications of Airfoils
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Aeronautical Engineering Subject Code: BE05001021 Subject Name: Aerodynamics
Unit 2 Characteristics of Low Speed Airfoil
- Effect of incidence on pressure distribution
- Lift Curve
- Airfoil stalling
- Flow Separation
- Pitching moment
- Span-wise flow variation
- Wind Tunnel and Its type
Unit 3 Incompressible flow over a Two Dimensional Wing
- Vortex Sheet
- The Kutta Condition
- Kelvin’s Circulation Theorem and starting vortex
- Classical Thin Airfoil Theory – 1
- Symmetrical Airfoil 2
- Cambered Airfoil
- Vortex Panel Numerical Method for Lifting flow over Arbitrary bodies
- Viscous flow over Airfoil – Estimation of airfoil drag for laminar flow & Turbulent flow
- Transition and flow separation
- Modern Low Speed airfoils
- Flow over airfoil – The real case
Unit 4 Incompressible flow over a Finite Wings
- Introduction to Finite Wing
- The Vortex system
- Laws of Vortex motion – The vortex filament
- Biot-Savart Law and Helmholtz’s theorem
- Prandtl’s Classical Lifting Line Theory
- A Numerical Nonlinear Lifting Line Method
- The Vortex Lattice Numerical Method
- The Delta Wing
Unit 5 Compressible Flow
- Governing equations for inviscid compressible flow
- Total conditions
- Flow with Normal shock waves: Introduction
- Development of a Shockwave
- Rarefaction wave
- Speed of sound with derivation
- Prandtl-Meyer relation
- Mach number Downstream of the normal shockwave
- Static Pressure ratio across the shock
- Temperature ratio across the shock
- Numerical based on Normal Shockwave density ratio across the shock (Rankine–Hugoniot equation)
- Stagnation pressure ratio across the shock
- change in entropy across the shock
- Impossibility of shock in subsonic flow
- strength of the shock wave
- Determination of mach number of supersonic flows
- tables and charts for normal shock wave
- Moving normal shockwaves Flow with Oblique Shock waves: Introduction
- Nature of flows through oblique shock wave
- Fundamentals relations of Oblique shock
- Prandtl’s relation
- Rankine–Hugoniot equation. 45 Hours 100%
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