Description:
| Aims: To improve students' understanding of viscous flow, compressible flow and external aerodynamics.
Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit the student should be able to:
* Apply the boundary layer equations to laminar and turbulent flow.
* Determine the drag contribution from an arbitrary shaped body.
* Calculate the aerodynamics characteristics of aerofoils in supersonic flow.
* Predict the load distributions over an arbitrary three-dimensional wing.
Skills: Problem solving, numeracy, written communication (taught and assessed), working independently.
Content:
INTRODUCTION TO TURBULENCE: drag of bluff and streamlined bodies. Laminar and turbulent flow over flat places.
COMPRESSIBLE FLOW: oblique shocks and expansion waves; shock expansion theory for aerofoils.
THREE DIMENSIONAL LIFTING SURFACES: horseshoe vortex model, lifting line models, Vortex Lattice Method.
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