Lectures
- 1. Introductory Concepts
- 2. Hydrostatics
- 3. Aerodynamic Forces and Moments
- 4. Dimensional Analysis and Similarity
- 5. Reynolds and Mach Number
- 6. Control Volume, Mass Conservation
- 7. Momentum Conservation
- 8. Streamlines, Pathlines, Streaklines
- 9. Momentum Integral Application
- 10. Substantial Derivative
- 11. Vorticity and Circulation
- 12. Stream Function and Velocity Potential
- 13. Bernoulli's Equation
- 14. Incompressible and Irrotational Flows
- 15. Sources, Sinks and Doublets
- 16. Vortex, Lifting Flow
- 17. Flowfield Prediction
- 18. Lift Prediction, Vortex Sheets
- 19. Airfoils
- 20. Airfoils: Detailed Look
- 21. Airfoil Polar Relations
Fluid Mechanics
Course Summary
This course is based on 16.01-16.02 Fluid Mechanics made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
This course covers the physical properties of a fluid and their consequence on fluid flow, expressed in terms of Mach and Reynolds numbers. Students are taught the conservation principles of mass, momentum, and energy for fluid flow and how to apply the basic mathematical tools that support fluid dynamics. They will learn the conceptual and quantitative models of inviscid, steady fluid flow over simple bodies (airfoils, wings) and in channels. (Video recordings of lectures are not available but this course includes a good set of lecture notes and course material)
Reading Material
1. Textbook (MIT): Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 3rd edAnderson, John D. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN: 0072373350.
Course Material
1. Concept Questions (Lecture 1-11)2. Concept Questions (Lecture 12-17)
Other Resources
1. Book: Aerodynamics for engineering studentsEdward Lewis Houghton, Peter William Carpenter, Aerodynamics for engineering students, Edition: 5, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003, ISBN 0750651113, 9780750651110
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