AE 3021 High Speed Aerodynamics

Fall 2006

Catalog Description: AE 3021 High Speed Aerodynamics. 3-0-3. Compressibility effects on airfoil and wing aerodynamics; supersonic potential flow; method of characteristics; boundary layer effects on airfoil and wing performance.

 
Text: Either “Aerodynamics for Engineers” by J. Bertin or “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics” by J. Anderson. Use the text that you used for AE2020.


Learning Objectives: Learn to account for compressibility effects, assuming that the incompressible aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils, wings or bodies of revolution are known. Learn to model 2-D supersonic aerodynamics. Estimate viscous drag in attached laminar and turbulent flow.

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Homework 2

 

 

Lecture Topics

 

Textbook Pages refer to latest editions

Topic

Anderson

Bertin

Results from: Low speed aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics

AE2020: Sec.1.1 – 6.7; 15.1 -15.7; AE3450: 7.1 – 10.6

AE2020: Sec.1.1 – 7.11  AE3450: 8.1 -8.6

Review of conservation equations

Sec. 2.3 – 2.5, 7.4

2.1-2.10

Full Potential Equation

11.1-11.2

9.1

Linearized Equation; Subsonic Similarity

11.3-11.5

9.1.1

Airfoils in Supersonic Flow

12.1-12.4

10.1

Nonlinear techniques for supersonic flows 

9.7 – 9.8

10.2 – 10.3

Wings and Bodies in Compressible Flow

11.7, 11.10

9.1.1, 11.1-11.7

Transonic aerodynamics 

11.6 – 11.13

9.2 – 9.6

Review of boundary layer theory

17.1 – 17.5

4.1-4.2

Laminar boundary layers

18.1-18.2

4.3

Transition to turbulence

19.1-19.2

4.4

Turbulent Boundary Layers

19.3 – 19.5

4.5-4.7

Effects of compressibility in boundary layers

18.3 – 18.5; 19.2.1

4.8-4.9

  Nozzle Design    Class Notes
   Method of Characteristics    Class Notes
 Introduction to Hypersonics
   Class Notes

 
 

Professor: Dr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Professor. narayanan.komerath@ae.gatech.edu  Office: 353 Guggenheim. Office Hours: 9-10 Wednesday & Friday.

Grading:

Homework will not be graded, but on-time completion and submission will be counted: 1% each  for on-time submission, -2% for missed deadlines, for a maximum of 10% and a minimum of -20%.

Two 50-minute Midterm Tests (30%): September 20 and November 8.                                    Comprehensive Test 20% November 20
Four Quizzes (15-minute): 20%: September 1, September 13, October 6, November 1.
Final Exam: 20% If you have an “A” average at end of the Comprehensive Test (72+ out of 80) you can opt out of the Final Exam.

Policies:
1. Regular and punctual attendance and participation are expected. Absence from quizzes and tests must be explained with medical certificates or other valid reasons beyond your control and planning. Being late for 8AM class occasionally due to traffic is understandable – when MARTA or the interstates cause delays. The professor also commutes a long way. PLEASE DON’T hurry on the highways. (Get up early instead).

 2. Ask anyone for help on homework, but what you submit must be your own work.