Course
Introductory concepts of compressible flow, Isentropic one-dimensional flow, Normal shocks – stationary and moving , applications, applications to supersonic wind tunnels, Shock tubes, Supersonic Pitot’ probes, oblique shock, reflection, Prandtl – Meyer expansion flow. Fanno flow & Rayleigh flow. Under and over expanded nozzles, Shock expansion method for flow over airfoils. Brief introduction to the methods of characteristics, Prandtl-Glauert and Goethert rules. Ackeret’s supersonic airfoil theory. Small perturbation equations for subsonic, transonic, supersonic and Hypersonic flow. Experimental characteristics of airfoils in compressible flow
4 credit course, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details, visit Academics.