CODE 65906 ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 INGEGNERIA MECCANICA - ENERGIA E AERONAUTICA 9270 (LM-33) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/06 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW "The term aerodynamics is generally used for problems arising from flight and other topics involving the flow of air" Ludwig Prandtl, 1949 AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES he course aims at providing the basis of the aerodynamics of bodies moving in a fluid at subsonic speed, employing mainly the concepts of boundary layer and velocity potential, and putting emphasis on forces and moments acting on the body. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications will also be proposed on the basis of the Fluent and/or OpenFOAM codes. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course the student will have acquired a solid knowledge of the effects of fluid forces onto solid bodies in motion, for both airfoils (2D) and wings (3D), and will be capable of developing (i) simple models to extract salient features of the fluid/solid interaction, as well as (ii) more complex computational aerodynamics calculations. TEACHING METHODS The course will consist mainly of lectures and applications of the concepts learned in class to the solution of practical aerodynamics problems. The second part of the course will consist mostly in practical experience in the computer room with open-source and commercial CFD codes. 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); Preliminary concepts on transition-to-turbulence of the boundary layer. Computational aerodynamics Practical experience with CFD codes. 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 ALESSANDRO BOTTARO Ricevimento: Students can just drop by the instructor's office, though an email beforehand is preferable (alessandro.bottaro@unige.it). 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. ASSESSMENT METHODS In the course of the semester, the students must take two partial exams, for the instructor to monitor their level of comprehension of the topics covered. Furthermore, to ascertain their maturity, critical thinking and capacity of synthesis, the writing of a term paper is required, on a topic chosen by the student and inherent to aerodynamics. The paper is then presented by each student to the whole class. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 28/02/2020 15:00 GENOVA Esame su appuntamento 18/09/2020 15:00 GENOVA Esame su appuntamento FURTHER INFORMATION Pre-requisites: n introductory course in fluid mechanics.
