This note covers the following
topics: Historical Background, Parts of an Aircraft, Stability, Aerospace
Terminology, Forces on Aircraft, Lift and Drag, Airfoils, Pi Theorem, Energy
Equation, Substantial Derivative, Pathline and stream line, Uniform Flow, source
flow, Uniform Flow, Propulsion, Operational Envelopes, Standard Atmosphere,
Air-breathing Engines, Aircraft Performance, Rocket Engines, Review of Gas
Dynamics, H-K Diagram, Normal shock wave, Flow with heat addition, Flow with
friction.
This
note explains the following topics: introduction to gas dynamics, Conservation
laws, Fundamentals of compressible fluid flow and Shock Phenomena, Aerodynamic
drag, transonic flow and helicopter aerodynamics and also covers computational
fluid dynamics and practical applications like wind tunnel testing techniques.
Author(s): International Islamic University Malaysia
This note covers the following
topics: Kinematics of a Fluid Element, Stress-Strain Relationship for a
Newtonian Fluid, Brequet Range Equation, Coordination Transformations for Strain
and Stress Rates, Equations of Aircraft Motion, Viscous Flow, Integral Boundary
Layer Equations, Correlation Methods for Integral Boundary Layers, Falkner-Skan
Flows, Three-Dimensional Wall Effects, Subsonic Small Disturbance Potential
Flow, Waves in 1D Compressible Flow, Normal Shock Waves, Linearized Compressible
Potential Flow Governing Equation, Oblique Shock Waves, Prandtl-Meyer Expansion
Waves, Computational Methods for the Euler Equations, Solution Convergence.