AE2010: Course Overview
Catalog Description
Thermodynamic and fluid properties. Conservation laws. Isentropic flow, shocks and expansions, introduction to flows with friction and heat transfer. Applications to aerospace devices.

Course Objectives
This course is intended to provide students with:

  1. a fundamental understanding of the conservation laws and properties used to analyze fluids, flows and energy conversion devices;
  2. the ability to analyze basic compressible flows, including applications to nozzles, diffusers and simple airfoils.

Learning Outcomes
A student successfully completing this course will gain a basic level of understanding of:

  1. the derivation of the conservation equations for thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
and a mastery level understanding of:
  1. properties of fluids (e.g., temperature, density, pressure, viscosity, speed of sound)
  2. thermodynamic properties and state equations (including gases, incompressible substances and two-phase mixtures)
  3. application of conservation equations (integral and differential forms) to fluid mechanical and energy conversion devices
  4. Bernoulli equation, hydrostatics, streamlines
  5. physical characteristics and similarity parameters associated with continuum flow regimes (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, steady, unsteady, viscous, inviscid)
  6. basic concepts of thermodynamics (systems, work, heat)
  7. 1st and 2nd Laws of thermodynamics
  8. static and stagnation properties
  9. propagation of disturbances and resulting property variation (Mach waves, shock waves, compressions, and expansions)
  10. quasi-1D analysis of compressible internal flows
Prerequisites
Physics 2211, Math 2551, Chem 1310 or 1211K. Specific areas/concepts that students should have some familiarity with are:
  1. Newton's 2nd Law (F=d(mu)/dt) and momentum
  2. conservation of energy
  3. some computer modeling capability (Matlab, spreadsheets, etc.)
Textbooks (recommended)
    Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, John Anderson, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2017.
    Thermodynamics: Concepts and Applications, Stephen Turns, Cambridge University Press, (1st or 2nd editions).