Aerodynamics II
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The official GTU curriculum for Aerodynamics II (subject code 2160101) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 6 divides the course into 3 units, covering 25 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 (2160101)Unit 1 Incompressible flow over a Two Dimensional Wing
- Introduction – Airfoil Nomenclature and Characteristics
- Low speed flow over an Airfoil – Vortex Sheet
- The Kutta Condition
- Kelvin’s Circulation Theorem
- Classical Thin Airfoil Theory – The Symmetrical Airfoil
- The Cambered Airfoil
- The Vortex Panel Numerical Method for Lifting flow over 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
- Conformal Transformation
Unit 2 Incompressible flow over a Finite Wing
- Introduction to Finite Wing
- downwash and induced drag
- 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 3 Subsonic Compressible Flow over Airfoils
- Linear Theory Introduction
- The velocity potential equation
- The linearized velocity potential equation
- Prandtl-Glauert Compressibility correction