Programme Course Code Name of the Course L T P C

BE 19AE4201 Aerodynamics 3 1 0 4

1. To provide accumulated knowledge of fluid mechanics.

2. To provide the mathematical understanding of basic flows and their combinations.

Course 3. To demonstrate a fundamental understanding of fluid mechanics applicable to
Objective flight, the forces and moments on airfoil.
4. To apply the aerodynamic tools to develop the three dimensional wing and study
aerodynamic behavior.

5.To understand the behavior of airflow over bodies with particular emphasis on airfoil
sections in the incompressible flow regime
Unit Description Instructional
Hours
REVIEW OF BASIC FLUID MECHANICS
I 10
Continuity, momentum and energy equations-Differential in Integral forms.

TWO DIMENSIONAL FLOWS AND GENERATION OF LIFT

II Introductory concepts - Elementary flows and their combinations, Pressure and velocity 13
distributions onbodies with and without circulation in ideal and real fluid flows - Kutta
Joukowski’s theorem, Kuttacondition

AIRFOIL THEORY
III Cauchy-riemann relations, complex potential, methodology of conformal transformation, 12
kuttajoukowski transformation and its applications - Airfoil characteristics, Point vortex-
Vortex filament-Vortex sheet, kelvins circulation theorem and starting vortex - Thin
airfoil theory and its applications.

SUBSONIC WING THEORY

IV Biot-Savart law, bound vortex and trailing vortex, horse shoe vortex, lifting line theory 13
and itslimitations
INTRODUCTION TO VISCOUS FLOW
V Newton’s law of viscosity, Boundary Layer, Navier-Stokes equation, displacement, 12
Momentum , energythickness, Flow over a flat plate, Blasius solution.
Total Instructional Hours 60
CO1: Apply governing equation to various fluid flow models
Course CO2: Apply the knowledge of basic flows to the various bodies in the atmosphere for the
Outcome generation of lift.
CO3: Solve the aerodynamic problems associated with the airfoils.
CO4: Simulate wings with help of aerodynamic tools for various ambient conditions
CO5: Acquire knowledge on incompressible flow and viscous flow.

TEXT BOOKS:
T1 - Houghton, E.L., and Caruthers, N.B., "Aerodynamics for Engineering students", 7th edition.,
Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 2016.
T2 - Anderson, J.D., "Fundamentals of Aerodynamics", McGraw Hill Book Co., 6 th edition, 2016.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
R2 - Clancy, L J.," Aerodynamics", Sterling book house, 2006.
R3 - Milne Thomson, L.H., “Theoretical aerodynamics”, Macmillan, 2007