NOC:Fundamentals of Theoretical and Experimental Aerodynamics

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. Arnab Roy

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Kharagpur

NPTEL Lecture Count : 69

NPTEL Course Size : 6.5 GB

NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included

NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)

Lecture Titles:

Lecture 1 - Introduction on Aerodynamics-its relevance and applications
Lecture 2 - Atmosphere
Lecture 3 - Flow velocity, pressure, skin friction
Lecture 4 - Generation of aerodynamic forces and moments on an aircraft
Lecture 5 - Generation of aerodynamic forces and moments on an aircraft (Continued...)
Lecture 6 - Generation of aerodynamic forces and moments on an aircraft (Continued...)
Lecture 7 - Eulerian and Lagrangian perspectives of flow: Fluid element trajectories
Lecture 8 - Fluid element trajectories, Angular velocity, and vorticity
Lecture 9 - Irrotational and Rotational flow, Strain of a fluid element, Gradient
Lecture 10 - Line Surface and Volume Integrals, Circulation, Velocity
Lecture 11 - Conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy
Lecture 12 - Conservation equations of momentum and energy
Lecture 13 - Inviscid and viscous flows
Lecture 14 - Inviscid and viscous flows (Continued...)
Lecture 15 - Bernoulli’s equation and its applications
Lecture 16 - Bernoulli’s equation applications; Potential flow; Boundary layer flow
Lecture 17 - Boundary layer flow
Lecture 18 - Boundary Layer (Continued...) and Laminar and turbulent flow
Lecture 19 - Airfoil Geometry, forces and moments acting on an airfoil
Lecture 20 - Pressure distribution on an airfoil, Airfoil nomenclature and characteristics
Lecture 21 - Airfoil characteristics; Aerodynamic center; Some more elementary flows
Lecture 22 - Elementary flows- Doublet and Point Vortex; Vortex sheet
Lecture 23 - Kutta condition; Kelvin’s circulation theorem; Introduction to thin airfoil theory
Lecture 24 - Results of thin airfoil theory for symmetric
Lecture 25 - Multi element airfoils, Laminar and turbulent
Lecture 26 - Finite wing geometry and flow features
Lecture 27 - Biot Savart Law; Prandtl’s lifting line theory
Lecture 28 - Prandtl lifting theory for finite wings
Lecture 29 - Finite wing aerodynamics; Delta wing aerodynamics
Lecture 30 - Delta wing aerodynamics; Unsteady aerodynamics
Lecture 31 - Fundamentals of high speed flows
Lecture 32 - Velocity potential equation and its application; Finite Waves
Lecture 33 - Normal shocks
Lecture 34 - Normal shocks, Mach waves and oblique shocks
Lecture 35 - Oblique shock; Prandtl Meyer expansion
Lecture 36 - Shock expansion theory; Flow through converging diverging nozzle
Lecture 37 - Flow through converging diverging nozzle under different back pressure
Lecture 38 - Priliminary concepts of hypersonic flow; Shock tube
Lecture 39 - Computing aerodynamic flows - trying to connect with the theory
Lecture 40 - Computing aerodynamic flows - trying to connect with the theory (Continued...)
Lecture 41 - Some more on flow physics; The different steps involved in flow computations
Lecture 42 - An introduction to Panel Method
Lecture 43 - Panel method and Vortex Lattice Method
Lecture 44 - Mathematical classification of PDEs and their physical behavior
Lecture 45 - Basics of grid and discretization of governing PDEs
Lecture 46 - Different aspects of numerical schemes
Lecture 47 - Basics of Euler Equation
Lecture 48 - Basics of Compressible Navier Stokes Equations
Lecture 49 - Wind tunnel-an experimental tool in aerodynamics; Types of wind tunnels
Lecture 50 - Wind Tunnel design basics - Subsonic Wind Tunnels
Lecture 51 - Wind Tunnel design basics - Subsonic wind tunnels (Continued...)
Lecture 52 - Wind Tunnel design basics - Supersonic wind tunnels
Lecture 53 - Continuous closed circuit supersonic wind tunnel
Lecture 54 - Scalling of wind tunnel models; Safety issues in wind tunnel handling
Lecture 55 - Flow visualization techniques
Lecture 56 - Schlieren and Shadowgraph techniques
Lecture 57 - Measurement of Pressure using mechanical instruments
Lecture 58 - Rayleigh Pitot tube; Drag measurement using wake survey and direct weighing method
Lecture 59 - Mechanical balance
Lecture 60 - Electronic transducers
Lecture 61 - Wheatstone bridge circuits for force and moment measurement
Lecture 62 - Strain gauge based balances; Electronic pressure gauges
Lecture 63 - Absolute-Gauge-Differential pressure sensors; Data Acquisition System
Lecture 64 - Measurement error and uncertainty
Lecture 65 - Velocity measurement using Particle Image Velocimetry
Lecture 66 - Velocity measurement using Particle Image Velocimetry (Continued...)
Lecture 67 - Particle image velocimetry (Continued...)
Lecture 68 - How wind tunnel and associated instrumentation are used
Lecture 69 - Quick recapitulation of course content and closure