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Week 1
Review of basic concepts: Rotation and dilatation, compressibility in kinematic terms, review of thermodynamics, speed of sound, Equations of conservation of mass and momentum
Week 2
Energy equation, Stagnation state, Bulk modulus and compressibility, Mach number, Non-dimensionalization of equations of fluid motion, Mach number similarity
Week 3
Classification of flow regimes, Isentropy and iso-enthalpy, steady isentropic flow relations and reference conditions (stagnation and sonic)
Week 4
Steady one-dimensional flows: Isentropic quasi-1-D flows, area relation, effect of pressure ratio, choking
Week 5
Shock waves: Shock formation, scales for shock thickness and dissipation; Steady one-dimensional flows (cont): Normal shock relations, Thermodynamics of shock waves, Rayleigh line, Ranking-Hugoniot curve and jump conditions
Week 6
Steady one-dimensional flows (cont): Weak shock relations, shock waves in quasi-1-D flow (convergent-divergent nozzle), supersonic wind tunnel, start/unstart of supersonic wind tunnel; 1-D flow with friction (Fanon flow), Fanon line
Week 7
Steady one-dimensional flows (cont): Fanno flow (cont) and Rayleigh flow, choking due to friction and heating
Week 8
2-D steady supersonic flows: Oblique waves, Oblique shock relations, overexpanded jets, bow shock, Crocco’s theorem, pitot tube, regular reflection of shock waves, pressure-deflection diagram, slip line
Week 9
2-D steady supersonic flows (cont): Classification of shock wave reflection, Prantl-Meyer Expansion, underexpanded jets, reflection of shock and expansion at free shear layer; 2-D steady aerodynamics: shock expansion theory
Week 10
2-D steady aerodynamics (cont): Compressible potential equations, linearisation of potential equation, linearised subsonic flow, Prandtl-Glauert and Goethert rules, linearised supersonic flow, d’Alemberts solution and method of characteristics (MoC)
Week 11
2-D steady aerodynamics (cont): Transonic and hypersonic small perturbation potential equations and similarity, introductory ideas on MoC based nozzle design; 1-D unsteady flow: Moving shock and expansion fan, shock tube and shock tunnel.