MAE Department

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, New York, (1998).
 

Suggested References:

1- Anderson, J.D., Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, NY (1991).

2- Karamcheti, K., Principles of Ideal Fluid Aerodynamics, Wiley, New York, (1966).

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.

 

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