| Course Name | Hypersonic Flow Theory |
| Course Code | 15AES442 |
| Program | B. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering |
| Year Taught | 2019 |
Introduction – Basic Considerations and Definitions – Videos of Atmospheric ReEntry – Thin Shock Layer – Entropy Layer – Viscous Interaction – Low Density Flows – High Temperature Effects – Visual Presentation of Damages due to High Temperature Effects – Hypersonic Flight Paths.
Inviscid Hypersonic Flow Theory: Shock Expansion Method, Surface Inclination Methods – Small Disturbance Equations and Approximate Methods – Similarity Laws.
Exact Methods – Method of Characteristics Review – Unit Processes for Method of Characteristics: Planar, Axisymmetric and 3-D Flows – Blunt Body Problem and Shock Interaction Types – Modern Computational Methods – Introduction to Viscous Hypersonic Flows.
Wallace D. Hayes and Ronald F. Probstein, “Hypersonic Flow Theory,” 2nd edition, Academic Press, 1959.
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