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Feb 05, 2025
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ME 481 - Aerodynamics3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Reviews non-dimensional numbers and boundary layer concepts. Covers a physical description and understanding of fluid flow over bluff and streamlined bodies; experimental and theoretical lift and drag results for both two-dimensional and finite airfoils; aircraft stability and control; propeller design; automobile aerodynamics, including airfoil, spoilers, and airdams. (prereq: ME 3104 or equivalent)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Thoroughly understand fluid flows over bluff and streamlined bodies, including potential flow results, circulation, boundary layers, transition, and experimental results
- Choose an airfoil and apply lift, drag, and moment coefficients to a design and measure these coefficients experimentally
- Calculate thin airfoil and finite airfoil
- Calculate airplane stability and trim
- Be introduced to automobile aerodynamics
Prerequisites by Topic
- Incompressible flow, Bernoulli equation
- Laminar and turbulent flows, Reynolds number, viscosity
- Boundary layers
- Integral calculus
Course Topics
- Review of fluids, non-dimensionalization, boundary layer, friction
- 2-D flow over cylinders and airfoils
- Movies and laboratory experiments
- Airfoil terminology, characteristics, and physical flow description, modern airfoil developments, high lift devices
- Thin airfoil theory
- Finite airfoil
- Stability and control
- Propellers, vortex motion, model airplanes
- Automotive applications
Coordinator
Dr. Katie Reichl
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