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Final Study Guide

General
 Fluid properties
 Dimensional analysis
 Pressure distributions, favorable/adverse gradients
 Lift, drag, moments – 2D and 3D
 Drags: pressure, viscous, wave, profile
 Airfoil characteristics, with angle of attack, Reynolds number
 NACA airfoils
 Governing equations
 Continuity, momentum, energy conservation
 Steady, unsteady flows
 Streamfunctions& Streamlines
 Velocity Potential
 Vorticity, Circulation, Stokes’s Theorem
 Incompressible, irrotational, inviscidflow
 Bernoulli’s equation
 Simple potential flows (uniform, source, vortex, vortex filament,
doublet)
 Superposition of simple potential flows, deriving streamlines,
velocities, pressures
 Cylinder flow, including velocity and pressure distribution, stagnation
points, circulation effects

2-D Aerodynamcis
 Kutta condition, Kutta-Joukowskilift theorem,
 Joukowski airfoil, Joukowskitransformation
 Transforming points, velocities, potentials between complex and other
coordinates
 Conformal mapping, what is it, examples
 Matching boundary conditions using singularity elements
 Image potential flows
 Vortex sheet, bound vortex
 Thin Airfoil Theory for symmetric, cambered, and flapped airfoils,
including basic formulation, requirements for the solution, how to
analyze a given mean camber line, properties of symmetric &
cambered airfoils, and how to analyze flaps and their effects.
3-D Aerodynamcis
 Wings of finite spans
 Potential flow modeling of 3-D wings
 Horseshoe vortex models of wings
 Wing wakes
 Formation flight aerodynamics
 Spanwise lift/load and circulations distributions, section lift coefficients
 Vortex lattice methods
 Biot-Savart
 Helmholtz Theorems
 Lifting line theory
 Induced, effective, absolute, free stream, zero-lift angles of attack
 The elliptically loaded wing
 Induced drag, induced drag coefficient
 2-D and 3-D lift-curve slopes
 Wing taper and twist
 Maximum lift, stall
 Base and additional lift distribution
 Winglets
 Wing performance -> aircraft performance

Viscous flows

 Viscous flows
 Boundary layers: what is laminar, turbulent, separated
 Boundary development over an airfoil
 Disturbance, displacement, momentum, energy thickness: what are
they, what do they represent, how do they change with different
boundary layers, pressure gradients?
 Flow over a flat plate: boundary layer development, friction drag
 Boundary layer growth behavior for various flows.
 Be familiar with the cf vs. Re diagram of a flat plate
 Flow over an airfoil: boundary layer development, stagnation point,
separation, transition.
 What is transition? How is it promoted, postponed?
 Boundary layer theory: general approach
 Be familiar with the momentum integral equation (what do the terms
represent? How can it be solved? Any special cases?).
 Separated flow: what is it? What is required? What is laminar/turbulent
separation? What are the consequences of flow separation? How can
it be “managed?” What is reattachment?
 Pressure drag: what are pressure drags? How can be predict/estimate
pressure drags? What are typical values?
 Airfoils: know the general nomenclature, aerodynamic behaviors with
changing of attack
 Profile drag: What does it include, what does it not include?
 What is a laminar airfoil? What happens in the low drag region?
 How does lift, profile drag, pitching moment change with angle of
attack?
 How do camber and maximum thickness influence the airfoil
characteristics (cl, cd, cm0)?
 How does Reynolds number influence airfoil characteristics (cl, cd,
cm0)?
 How do flaps influence the airfoil characteristics (cl, cd, cm0)? What
are typical applications for trailing edge flaps?
 What are some design concerns with respect to choice of airfoils?

Aircraft Aerodynamics

 Estimating aircraft drags


 Drag decompositions
 Aircraft longitudinal trim
 Aircraft design aspects with respect to aerodynamics

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