This course aims to supply the undergraduate students with all the appropriate knowledge and skills that will allow them to understand aerodynamic principles of incompressible and compressible flows. The course is based on the exploitation of previously acquired knowledge by the students during core subjects of the earlier semesters. The main objective of the course is a student to be able to integrate this knowledge and extend it to more complex fluid mechanics problems.

1.  Basic principles, introductory concepts
2.  Fundamental principles and equations.
3.  Incompressible flows around aerofoils
4.  Incompressible flows around wings of finite span
5. 3D incompressible flows
6.  Basic principles of compressible flows
7. Normal and oblique shock. Expansion fans.
8. Compressible flows in nozzles, diffusers and aerodynamic tunnels.
9. Linear theory for subsonic compressible flows around aerofoils
10. Linerarised supersonic flows
11. Introduction to hypersonic flows
12.  Introduction to real flows, basic principles and equations.

There are no prerequisite courses. It is recommended that students
who are interested in attending the course have completed successfully the
following course:

ΕΝ0201 FLUID MECHANICS I

Suggested Literature:

•  John Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 7th edition,
  McGrawHill, New York, 2023
• James E. John and Theo G. Keith, Gas Dynamics, 3rd Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006
• R. W. Fox, A. T. McDonald, P. J. Pritchard & J. W. Mitchell, Fluid Mechanics, 9th Edition (SI), Wiley, 2016
• R. M. Cummings, W. H. Mason, S. A. Morton & D. R. McDaniel, Applied
  Computational Aerodynamics – A modern Engineering Approach, Cambridge
  Aerospace Series

Related Academic Journals

• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• AIAA Journal
• Progress in Aerospace Sciences
• Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
• Physical Review Fluids

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