Basic flows – Source, Sink, Free and Forced vortex, uniform parallel flow. Their combinations, Pressure and velocity distributions on bodies with and without circulation in ideal and real fluid flows.
Joukowski, Karman - Trefftz, Profiles - Thin aerofoil theory and its applications. Vortex line, Horse shoe vortex, Biot and Savart law, Lifting line theory and its limitations.
VISCOUS FLOW
Newton 's law of viscosity, Boundary Layer, Navier-Stokes equation, displacement, Momentum thickness, Flow over a flat plate, Blasins solution.
REFERENCE
Text Books
1. Anderson, J.D., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York , 1998.
Reference Books
1. Houghton, E.L., and Carruthers, N.B., “Aerodynamics for Engineering students”, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London , 1989.
2. Milne Thomson, L.H., “Theoretical aerodynamics”, Macmillan, 1985.
3. Clancey, L.J., “Aerodynamics”, Pitman, 1986