- Docente: Gianbattista Scarpi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/01
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Gianbattista Scarpi (Modulo 1) Gianbattista Scarpi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Civil Engineering (cod. 0452)
Course contents
Statics of Fluids; The International Standard Atmosphere.
Flow Analysis: Continuity Equation; Navier-Stokes Equations; Ideal Fluids; Euler Equations;
Bernoulli Equation for Incompressible and Compressible Fluids.
Incompressible flows:
Plane Ideal Flows; Stream Function, Potential Flows; Complex potentials; Uniform Flow, Source, Doublet, Vortex. Spinning Cylinder in a Uniform Stream; Magnus Effect; Kutta-Zhukowsky Theorem. Blasius formulae; Conformal mapping and Zhukowsky airfoils.
Glauert Theory for Thin Airfolis; Lift Coefficient; Pitching Moment Coefficient; Centre of Pressure; Aerodynamic Centre.
Boundary Layer Theory: Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate with zero Pressure Gradient; Drag Coefficient; Boundary Layer on Blunt Bodies. Separation of Boundary Layer.
Finite Airfoil Theory: Horseshoe Vortex; Lift and Induced Drag for Elliptic Distribution; Experimental Characteristics of Wing Sections.
Compressible Flows: Airfoils in Subsonic Flow; Critical Mach Number. Supersonic Flow; Linearised Supersonic Flow; Prandtl_Meyer Expansion; Oblique Shock Waves; Shock Polar; Rankine-Hugoniot Equation; Caracteristic Ratios across a Shock Wave versus Normal Mach Number; Airfoils in Supersonic Flow.
Dynamic Similarity and Modelling of Phenomena; Wind Tunnels.
Readings/Bibliography
Mattioli, Aerodinamica. Ed. Levrotto & Bella
Quori, Aerodinamica. Ed. Levrotto & Bella
Houghton/Carpenter, Aerodynamics for engineering students. Ed. Arnold
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
oral exam
Office hours
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