High Speed Aerodynamics
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High Speed Aerodynamics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for High Speed Aerodynamics (subject code 2180105) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 8 divides the course into 5 units, covering 35 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 (2180105)Unit 1 Introduction of Aero-Thermodynamics
- - Basic Concept of Aerodynamics and Thermodynamics
- Subsonic flow
- waves and Supersonic flow, 6
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. 8
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 Experimental Method in Aerodynamics
- Introduction to wind tunnel & its components
- measurements of various quantities in wind tunnel
- solid blockage
- wake blockage
- wind tunnel balances
- flow visualization techniques
- supersonic wind tunnels
- high speed subsonic tunnels
- transonic wind tunnel
- shock tube
- hypersonic wind tunnel
- experimental methodology. 10
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