MAE 424 - Aerodynamics
Lecture Time: T R, 2:00-3:20;
Place: 262 Capen Hall
Fall 2005
Instructor: Dr. Cyrus Madnia ; E-mail: madnia@eng. buffalo.edu
Office Location: 334 Jarvis Hall.
Office Hours: T-W 4:30-5:30 pm. Please e-mail me for an appointment if you can not make it to my office hours.
Teaching Assistants: Brian Beckmann and Frank Centinello; E-mails: bjb5@eng.buffalo.edu and fjc3@eng.buffalo.edu
Office Location: Trailer J
Office Hours:
Text: Kuethe,
A.M., and Chow, C.Y., Foundations of Aerodynamics: Bases of
Aerodynamic
Design,
Fifth Edition, Wiley,
Suggested References:
1-
2- Karamcheti,
K., Principles of Ideal Fluid Aerodynamics, Wiley,
Course Outline: Topics covered
in this
course include but is not limited to:
Aerodynamic forces and moments,
center of
pressure, integral form of the continuity, momentum and energy
equations, pathlines and streamlines of a
flow, vorticity,
circulation, strain, stream function, velocity potential, Bernoulli's equation,uniform flow, sources and sinks, vortex
flow,
doublet flow, Kutta-Joukowski theorem and
the
generation of lift, Panel method, d'Alembert
paradox,
airfoil characteristics, vortex sheet, Kutta
condition, Kelvin's circulation theorem, thin airfoil theory, cambered
airfoils,
modern low speed airfoils, flow fields around finite wings, Biot-Savart
law, Helmholtz's vortex theorems, Prandtl's
lifting-line theory, delta wings, introduction to compressible flow,
velocity
potential equation, the linearized
velocity potential
equation, Prandtl-Glauert compressibility
correction.
Grading Policy: The final grade
will be
determined based on your performance on a Midterm Exam (25%),
a Final Exam (35%), a Project
(10%), and Lab
reports (30%). During the course, homework problems will be assigned,
but will not be collected. The
solutions to
the homework problems will be provided.
It is strongly
recommended that
YOU do all the homework problems.
Homework
- Set 1 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 2 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 3 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 4 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 5 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 6 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 7 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 8 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 9 [Questions Solutions]
- Set 10 [Questions Solutions]
Project