Aerodynamics.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Prerequisite: EGMN 301 . Enrollment is restricted to students with senior or graduate standing or with permission of the instructor. This course involves Bernoulli’s principle and the discussion of airplane wings and wing dynamics. Control surfaces including flaps, elevators, trim tabs, rudders and spoilers. Flow across airfoils, including angle of attack, air stagnation and secondary flows, stalls, and other flow dynamics. Airspeed discussions include subsonic flow, transitional flow, supersonic flow and hypersonic flow. Also, airflow measurements and flow visualization, including wind tunnels, pressure measurements and aircraft designed for specific flow fields.