AU AE6401 Aerodynamics I 4th Semester R-2013 Syllabus

Anna University, Chennai

Department of B.E Aeronautical Engineering

FOURTH SEMESTER

AE6401 Aerodynamics I

Syllabus

(REGULATION 2013)

AE6401 AERODYNAMICS - I L T P C 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES:
To introduce the concepts of mass, momentum and energy conservation relating to Aerodynamics.
To make the student understand the concept of vorticity, irrotationality, theory of airfoils and wing sections.
To introduce the basics of viscous flow.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO LOW SPEED FLOW 9
Euler equation, incompressible bernoulli’s equation. circulation and vorticity, green’s lemma and stoke’s theorem, barotropic flow, kelvin’s theorem, streamline, stream function, irrotational flow, potential function, equipontential lines, elementary flows and their combinations.

UNIT II TWO DIMENSIONAL INVISCID INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW 9
Ideal Flow over a circular cylinder, D’Alembert’s paradox, magnus effect, Kutta joukowski’s theorem, starting vortex, kutta condition, real flow over smooth and rough cylinder.

UNIT III AIRFOIL THEORY 9
Cauchy-Riemann relations, complex potential, methodology of conformal transformation, kuttajoukowski transformation and its applications, thin airfoil theory and its applications.

UNIT IV SUBSONIC WING THEORY 9
Vortex filament, biot and savart law, bound vortex and trailing vortex, horse shoe vortex, lifting line theory and its limitations.

UNIT V INTRODUCTION TO BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY 9
Boundary layer and boundary layer thickness, displacement thickness, momentum thickness, energy thickness, shape parameter, boundary layer equations for a steady, two dimensional incompressible flow, boundary layer growth over a flat plate, critical reynolds number, blasius solution, basics of turbulent flow.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES
An ability to apply airfoil theory to predict air foil perform
A knowledge of incompressible flow
An explosive to Boundary layer theory

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Houghton, E.L., and Caruthers, N.B., "Aerodynamics for Engineering students", Edward Arnold
Publishers Ltd., London, 1989.
2. Anderson, J.D., "Fundamentals of Aerodynamics", MaGraw Hill Book Co., 1999

REFERENCES:
1. Milne Thomson, L.H., "Theoretical Aerodynamics", Macmillan, 1985
2. John J Bertin., "Aerodynamics for Engineers", Pearson Education Inc, 2002
3. Clancey, L J.," Aerodynamics", Pitman, 1986
4. Kuethe, A.M and Chow, C.Y, “Foundations of Aerodynamics”, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

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