MAE 424 - Aerodynamics

Lecture Time: T Th, 2:00-3:20;

Location: 218 NSC

Fall 2011

Instructor: Prof. Cyrus Madnia ; E-mail: madnia@buffalo.edu

Office Location: 334 Jarvis Hall

Office Hours: T-W 3:30-4:30 pm. Please e-mail me for an appointment if you can not make it to my office hours.

Teaching Assistant: Adam DeVoria

TAs E-mail address: adevoria@buffalo.edu

Office Location: 122 Jarvis Hall

Office Hours: M-F 11:00 am-12:00 pm. Please e-mail Adam for an appointment if you can not make it to my office hours.

Teaching Assistant: Mohammad Mehdi Maneshi

TAs E-mail address: m.m.maneshi@gmail.com

Office Hours: Please e-mail Mehdi for an appointment.

Grader: Navid Samadi Vaghefi

Graders E-mail: seyednav@buffalo.edu

Office Location: 220A Jarvis

Text: Anderson, J.D., Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, NY (2010).

Suggested References:

1- Kuethe, A.M., and Chow, C.Y., Foundations of Aerodynamics: Bases of Aerodynamic Design, Fifth Edition, Wiley, New York, (1998).

2- Karamcheti, K., Principles of Ideal Fluid Aerodynamics, Wiley, New York, (1966).

3- Schlichting H. and Truckenbrodt E., Aerodynamics of the Airplane, McGraw-Hill, NY (1979).

Course Outline: Topics covered in this course include but is not limited to:

Aerodynamic forces and moments, center of pressure, integral form of the continuity, momentum and energy equations, pathlines and streamlines of a flow, vorticity, circulation, strain, stream function, velocity potential, Bernoulli's equation, uniform flow, sources and sinks, vortex flow, doublet flow, Kutta-Joukowski theorem and the generation of lift, Panel method, d'Alembert paradox, airfoil characteristics, vortex sheet, Kutta condition, Kelvin's circulation theorem, thin airfoil theory, cambered airfoils, modern low speed airfoils, flow fields around finite wings, Biot-Savart law, Helmholtz's vortex theorems, Prandtl's lifting-line theory, introduction to compressible flow, velocity potential equation, the linearized velocity potential equation, Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction.

Grading Policy: The final grade will be determined based on your performance on a Midterm Exam (25%), a Final Exam (35%), a Project (10%), and Lab reports (30%). During the course, homework problems will be assigned, but will not be collected. The solutions to the homework problems will be provided.

It is strongly recommended that YOU do all the homework problems.

Homework

Web Cites

Ideal Flow Machine

Project

*****Project is due on the last day of classes*****