Advance Aerodynamics
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Advance Aerodynamics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advance Aerodynamics (subject code 3160113) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 38 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 (3160113)Unit 1 Introduction of Aero-Thermodynamics
- - Basic Concept of Aerodynamics and Thermodynamics
- Subsonic flow
- waves and Supersonic flow
Unit 2 Fundamentals of Hypersonic flows
- Introduction to Hypersonic flow
- Preliminary thoughts: Thin shock layers
- entropy layer
- Viscous retraction
- High temp flows
- Low density flows
- Mach No. independence
- Shock expansion theory
Unit 3 Hypersonic shock & Expansion wave relation
- Applications of Hypersonic flow Basic hypersonic shock relations
- Hypersonic shock relation in terms of hypersonic similarity parameters
- Examples related to Hypersonic Flow
- Hypersonic expansion wave relation
Unit 4 Local Surface Inclination Methods
- Newtonian flow model
- stagnation region flow field properties
- Modified Newtonian flow
- Wave riders
- Aerodynamic heating
- Centrifugal force correction to Newtonian theory
- Tangent-wedge/ Tangent – cone methods
- Shock expansion method
Unit 5 Compressible Flow over Airfoils
- The velocity potential equation
- The linearized velocity potential equation
- Prandtl-Glauert Compressibility correction
- Supersonic flow over a cone
- Critical Mach number
- Drag divergence mach number – The sound barrier
- Area Rule
- Supercritical Airfoil
- Rayleigh flow
- Fanno flow
Unit 6 Linearized Supersonic flow
- Introduction to supersonic flow
- Derivation of the Linearized supersonic pressure coefficient formula
- Application to supersonic airfoils
- Supersonic airfoil drag
- Subject Code: 3160113 w.e.f
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