Regulation 2021, Anna University Subject code – AE3401 deals with B.E Aeronautical Engineering 2nd year semester IV Aerodynamics I Syllabus. To prepare for challenging subjects in the field of Aeronautics need a detailed syllabus and preparation strategies. In this article, we discuss the Aerodynamics I syllabus.
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Aim Of Concept:
- To introduce the concepts of mass, momentum and energy conservation relating to aerodynamics.
- To introduce the Navier Stroke equations and its application
- To make the student understand the concept of vorticity, irrotationality, theory of airfoil and wing sections.
- To introduce the basics of viscous flow.
- To make the student to understand the different boundary layers and Blasius Solution
- To introduce the basics of turbulence flow
AE3401- Aerodynamics I Syllabus
Unit I: Introduction To Low-Speed Flow
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, Equipotential lines, elementary flows and their combinations.
Unit II: Two-Dimensional Inviscid Incompressible Flow
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
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
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
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.
Text Books:
- Anderson, J.D., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw Hill Book Co., 2010.
- Houghton, E.L., and Caruthers, N.B., “Aerodynamics for Engineering Students”, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 1989.
- E Rathakrishnan, “Theoretical Aerodynamics”, John Wiley, NJ, 2013.
References:
- Clancey, L J.,” Aerodynamics”, Pitman, 1986.
- John J Bertin., “Aerodynamics for Engineers”, Pearson Education Inc, 2002.
- Kuethe, A.M and Chow, C.Y, “Foundations of Aerodynamics”, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
- Milne Thomson, L.H., “Theoretical Aerodynamics”, Macmillan, 1985.
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- AE3402 – Air Breathing Propulsion
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- AE3403 – Aircraft Structures-I
- GE3451 – Environmental Sciences and Sustainability
- AE3411 – Aerodynamics Laboratory
- AE3412 – Propulsion Laboratory