AERODYNAMICS I

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Three hours of lecture per week; 45 hours per semester. Required introductory course for all mechanical engineering master’s students. Review of incompressible fluid mechanics. Aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub- sonic regime. The contents divided into three components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, including laminar and tur bulent boundary layers; aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, including thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, and panel method/interacting boundary layer methods.