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This course promotes the understanding of incompressible fluid mechanics and will also provide an understanding of the aerodynamic forces generated on wings and bodies in incompressible flow and the ability to predict them.

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None

Examination 60%

Two laboratories and a mini-project 10%

Individual coursework 30%

In Fluid Mechanics, this course aims to encourage understanding of incompressible fluid mechanics through application of potential based analysis, boundary layer theory and empirical correlations. The aim in Aerodynamics is to provide an understanding of the aerodynamic forces generated on wings and bodies in incompressible flow and the ability to predict them.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Fluid Mechanics

■ derive the fundamental fluid flow equations based on conservation laws and simplify these to obtain the potential flow model 

■ develop awareness of the limitations introduced by physical assumptions

■ solve the potential flow equations for simplified geometries

■ evaluate the mechanism of lift generation in a rotating cylinder

■ make comparisons between laminar and turbulent flow

■ evaluate the implications for attached and separated flow

Aerodynamics

■ analyse reduced order models and develop useful quantitative tools towards the prediction of flows over aerofoils, wings, bodies and other aircraft components (e.g flaps, controls etc.) in low speed flows.

■ demonstrate intuition on the physical processes that occur in low speed aerodynamics that underlay the prediction of their effects on flight surfaces.

Attendance at all laboratories

Attendance at all tutorials

Timely submission of all assignments

Attendance at all tests and examinations, gaining a nonzero mark