Course

Module-1

Basics equations of Fluid Mechanics, Potential flows, Stream function, Velocity potential, Two-dimensional incompressible flows: Laplace’s equation, its solutions, Elementary potential flows, Super position principle, the combination of elementary potential flows, conformal mapping. Implementation of conformal mapping textbook problem switch the help of python/Matlab programming.

Module-2

Boundary layer : Laminar and Turbulent boundary layers: characteristics and factors causing separation, Effect of boundary layer separation on flow over airfoils. Introduction to bluff body aerodynamics: flow over circular cylinders, effect of Reynolds number and geometry, dynamic effects. vortex shedding: modes and mechanisms, Strouhal number, aerodynamic coefficients, span-wise correlation. Implementing the concepts in real-life aerodynamic problems using CFD simulations or experimental techniques.

Module-3

Flows over aerofoils : Conformal transformation, thin airfoil theory, forces on airfoils, Kutta condition, Generation of circulation, Lift of Zhukhovsky airfoil. Introduction to finite wings: Prandtl’s lifting line theory. Propulsion of fishes and flight of birds. Experimental aerodynamics: flow visualization techniques–PIV, LDV, Hydrogen Bubble Visualization, other techniques. Measurements–PIV,Hot wire a nemometer, Cobra probe,Pressure transducers,force balances.

• CO1: Development of insight into the fundamental concepts and write the equations governing the fluid flow.
• CO2: Gaining conceptual understanding of Stream function, velocity potential solutions to Laplace’s equation and to know the conditions under which potential-flow theory hold.
• CO3: Skill to use super position to build simple potential flows and to understand the concept of conformal mapping and its applications.
• CO4: Acquiring knowledge on aerofoil nomenclature & characteristics and the Prandtl’s lifting line theory and to do practical problems based on this theory.
• CO5: Become Knowledgeable of bluff body aerodynamics : flow separation, unsteady wake  characteristics, experimental and numerical methods to investigate bluff body problems

• D. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics,McGraw-Hill,2017.
• Mc Cormick B.K. Aerodynamics, Aeronautics and Flight Mechanics, JohnWiley and SonInc.,1994.
• Zdravkovich,M.M.,1997.Flow Around Circular Cylinders,Vol.1:Fundamentals. Oxford University Press,Oxford, England.
• Zdravkovich,M.M.,2003.Flow Around Circular Cylinders,Vol.2:Applications. Oxford University Press,Oxford, England.
• Schlichting,H. and Gersten,K., Boundary Layer Theory, Springer-Verlag,2004.
• Fluid Mechanics Measurements, Richard J.Glodstien.,2ndEdition(2017),TaylorandFrancis.