Helicopter Engineering
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Helicopter Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Helicopter Engineering (subject code 2180108) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 8 divides the course into 6 units, covering 32 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 (2180108)Unit 1 Introduction
- 03 Chronological development
- Types of main rotor configurations
- Types of helicopters
Unit 2 Fundamentals of Rotor Aerodynamics
- Disc loading
- Power loading
- Induced inlfow ratio
- Thrust and Power coefficients
- Figure of Merit
- Rotor solidity
- blade loading coefficients
- Blade lock number
Unit 3 Momentum Analysis
- 08 Introduction to hover
- axial climb and descent
- forward flight
Unit 4 Blade element Analysis
- 09 Introduction to hover
- axial climb and descent
- forward flight
Unit 5 Basic helicopter Performance
- 04 20 Hovering and axial climb performance
- forward flight performance Induced power
- blade profile power
- parasitic power
- climb power
- Tail rotor power
- Total power
Unit 6 Conceptual design of helicopters
- Design requirements
- Design of main rotor: rotor diameter
- tip speed
- rotor solidity
- number of blades
- blade twist
- blade planform and tip shape
- airfoil sections
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