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CODE 65906
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/06
LANGUAGE Italiano
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 1° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

Basic course in aerodynamics

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course will provide the basis of the aerodynamics of bodies immersed in fluids moving at subsonic speeds, with particular reference to the concepts of boundary layer and velocity potential, with emphasis on the forces and moments acting on the body and provoking its movement.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will consist mainly of lectures and applications of the concepts learned in class to the solution of practical aerodynamics problems

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

  • Introduction to Aerodynamics

-     Vorticity Dynamics

Vorticity and circulation; The vorticity equation; Generation of vorticity in incompressible flows

  •  Ideal Fluids and Irrotational Flows

Plane potential flows, Conformal mapping and Joukowsky transformation, Potential flow around a cylinder; Lifting airfoils, Joukowsky airfoils; Potential flow around a two-dimensional body of arbitrary shape;Three-dimensional potential flows; Induced resistance and added mass force

  •  Flow over Airfoils

Low speed flow over airfoils: the vortex sheet; The Kutta condition; Kelvin’s circulation theorem and the starting vortex; Symmetric airfoils; Cambered airfoils

  •  Flow over Finite Wings

The vortex filament, Biot-Savart law and Helmholtz theorems; Prandtl’s classical lifting line theory

  •  Boundary Layers

Falkner-Skan similarity solution; Hiemenz flow; Boundary layer over an infinite swept wing (FS-Cooke)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • J.D. Anderson Jr., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw-Hill 2007

 

-     T. von Karman, “Aerodynamics”, McGraw-Hill 1963

 

  • R.H. Barnard & D.R. Philpott, “Aircraft Flight”, Prentice Hall 1995

 

  •  J.S. Denker, “See how it flies”, http://www.av8n.com/how/

            (italian version: http://utenti.quipo.it/volare/how.htm#contents)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ALESSANDRO BOTTARO (President)

ANDREA MAZZINO

JAN OSCAR PRALITS

LESSONS

Class schedule

AERODYNAMICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam will consist of a written test plus an oral examination.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
09/06/2017 15:00 GENOVA Scritto
08/09/2017 15:00 GENOVA Scritto
15/12/2017 15:00 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

Pre-requisites: n introductory course in fluid mechanics.