Advanced Aerodynamics

Catalog description

Review of basic incompressible and compressible flows, introduction to oblique shock waves, Prendtl-Meyer flows. Detailed airfoil analyses including effects on life and drag of angle of attack, Reynolds number, compressibility. Three-dimensional considerations: qualitative discussion of down-wash and circulation, quantitative aspects of this type of flow. Boundary layer theory: simple ideas, flat plate flows, calculation formulae.