Aerodynamics I
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Aerodynamics I Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Aerodynamics I (subject code 2150107) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 45 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 (2150107)Unit 1 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
- Types of Airfoils
- Airfoil Nomenclature and its characteristics
- NACA series
- Applications of Airfoils
- Aerodynamic forces and moments
- Pressure coefficient
Unit 2 Characteristics of Low Speed Airfoil
- Effect of incidence on pressure distribution
- The lift Curve
- Airfoil stalling
- Types of drag
- Pitching moment
- Spanwise flow variation. 12 25 %
Unit 3 Incompressible Potential Flow
- Bernoulli’s theorem for incompressible flow
- Measurement of air speed
- Errors and Corrections
- Measurements of airspeed at higher speed
- Angular Velocity
- Vorticity and strain
- Stream function
- Velocity potential
- Elementary flows: Uniform flow
- Source flow
- Doublet flow
- Vortex flow
- Principles of superposition
- Combination of uniform flow with a source and sink
- Half body
- Rankine oval body
- Non-lifting flow over circular cylinder
- lifting flow over a cylinder
- Kutta Joukowky theorem
Unit 4 Inviscid Compressible Flow
- Governing equations for inviscid compressible flow
- Total conditions
- Normal shock waves: Introduction
- Basic normal shock equations
- Speed of sound
- calculation of normal shock wave properties
- Measurements of velocity in compressible flow
- Oblique Shock waves and expansion waves: Introduction
- Oblique shockwave relations
- Supersonic flow over wedges and cones
- Shock interaction and reflections
- shockwave for blunt bodies
- Prandtl-Meyer Expansion wave
- Shock Expansion theory problems
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