Overview

Included in degrees & certificates

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Prerequisites

• Undergraduate Fluids
• by consent of instructor

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the fundamental mechanism enabling the generation of lift on airfoils, finite-span wings and bodies of revolution.
• Understand the fundamental mechanisms causing friction and pressure drag on bodies in viscous flow.
• Understand the mechanism causing induced (vortex) drag on finite-span wings.
• Understand the origin and method of derivation of the equations describing viscous flow, inviscid incompressible and compressible flow, and inviscid irrotational flow.
• Be able to apply potential flow modeling to the determination of the flow over two-dimensional bodies using source/sink/vortex superposition.
• Be able to derive the linearized equations for subsonic and supersonic flow.
• Be able to analyze the flow over slender airfoils in subsonic and supersonic flow.
• Understand the mechanism causing wave drag in transonic/supersonic flight.
• Be able to analyze the flow over missiles using the slender wing/body theory.
• Be able to develop expressions for the lift, drag, and aerodynamic stability of missiles.
• Understand the nature of laminar and turbulent flow and the reasons causing transition from laminar to turbulent flow.
• Be able to derive equations modeling turbulent flow using the Reynolds-averaging concept.
• Understand the nature of attached and separated flow and the reasons causing flow separation.