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Syllabus |
1. Aerodynamics of the Airplane. Balance of forces in different situations. Stability. Lifting, stabilizing and control
surfaces.
2. Airfoils. Thin airfoil and real airfoil. Conformal mapping. Transformation of Joukowski. Viscosity effects.
Viscous / inviscid interaction. Panel method. Wing airfoils in real fluid. Airfoil boundary layer control and transition
position. Types of airfoils and high lift devices. Compressibility effects.
3. 3D bodies. Finite Wings. Prediction methods of induced drag. Lifting lines, vortex lattice method and 3D panels
methods. Effects of span distribution of chord, geometric twist, aerodynamic twist and dihedral. Stall
characteristics. Winglets.
4. Airplane lift curve, drag polar and aerodynamic stability coefficients prediction. Numerical tools: modeling of
viscous/invisible interaction, RANS modeling. Experimental methods for aerodynamic characterization.
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Main Bibliography |
Drela, Mark. Flight vehicle aerodynamics. MIT press, 2014.
Anderson Jr, J. D. (2010). Fundamentals of aerodynamics. Tata McGraw-Hill Education.
Brederode, V., “Aerodinâmica Incompressível: Fundamentos”, IST PRESS, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Lisboa, 2014 (ISBN 978-989-8481-32-0).
Cengel, Y., & Cimbala, J. (2013). Ebook: Fluid mechanics fundamentals and applications (si units). McGraw Hill.
Barata, J.M.M., Aerodinâmica - Trabalhos de Laboratório, Serviços Gráficos, Universidade
da Beira Interior, 2017. (ISBN 978-989-654-370-9).
TQ-Plint TE54 Subsonic Suction Tunnel Operating Manual
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