Aerodynamics for Engineering Students

Hovercraft Air Continuity Dimensional analysis Dimensions Units Boundary layer Helicopters Thermodynamics Propellers Vortex Drag-Reduction Conservation of Energy Downwash Nozzle Flow Incompressible Flow LIFt Compressible flow Boundary Layer Theory Flaps Rockets Computational methods Steady flow Gurney flap Ackert’s rule aerodynamic definitions airfoil geometry Bernoulli’s Equation area rule circulation theory of lift compressibility correction Coanda effect critical Mach number doublet elliptic lift distribution Circulation Control computational methods applied to the airfoil problem Conservation of mass High Lift Devices horseshoe vortex isentropic ratios induced angle of attack lift and circulation Fluid properties linearized subsonic flow oblique shock wave ow separation drag quasi-one-dimensional flow potential flow theory of airfoils laminar span efficiency linearized supersonic flow small disturbance theory induced drag simple aerodynamic shapes singular solutions (source turbo-jets methods of estimating drag Momentum Equation Prandtl-Meyer expansion flow Prandtl’s hypothesis normal shock wave Prandtl-Glauert rule slats wing aspect ratio wing geometry supersonic wings shock-expansion method turbulent and transitional flows superposition of singular solutions vortex line wing sweep