Week - 1 |
SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS-I:Course Policy; Phenomenon of Flight; Physical Units: Fundamental units and basic quantities; Forces on Aircraft; Properties of Air; Atmosphere; the Standard Atmosphere; Atmospheric Flight |
Week - 2 |
SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS-II:Basics about Airflow; Continuity Equation; Bernoulli’s Equation; Airspeeds; Viscous Flows; Boundary Layer; Flow Separation and Drag; Shape and Scale Effects on Drag |
Week - 3 |
SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS-III:Aircraft Wings; Airfoil Sections; Generation of Lift; Airfoil Properties; Wing Geometry; Airflow about Finite Wings; Airflow about Aircraft |
Week - 4 |
SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS-IV:Ground Effect; The Stall; Lift and Airspeed Relations in Steady, Straight and Level Flight; High Lift Devices; Spoilers and Speed Brakes; Aerodynamic Degradation |
Week - 5 |
HIGH-SPEED AERODYNAMICS:Speed Domains and Compressibility; Compressible Flow; Shock Waves; High-subsonic Speed; Transonic Speed |
Week - 6 |
STABILITY and CONTROL-I: Basic Definitions; Static and Dynamic Stability; Static and Dynamic Longitudinal Stability |
Week - 7 |
STABILITY and CONTROL-II: Static Directional Stability; Static Lateral Stability; Dynamic Lateral/Directional Stability; Basic Concepts of Control; Pitch (Longitudinal) Control |
Week - 8 |
STABILITY and CONTROL-III: Yaw (Directional) Control; Roll (Lateral) Control; Roll/Yaw Interaction; Means to Reduce Control Surfaces; Mass Balance; Trimming |
Week - 9 |
LIMITATIONS: Operating Limitations; Maneuvering Envelope; Gust Envelope |
Week - 10 |
PROPELLERS: Propeller Parameters; Conversion of Engine Torque to Thrust; Engine Failure; Design Features for Power Absorption; Secondary Effects of Propellers |
Week - 11 |
FLIGHT MECHANICS-I: Symmetric Flight; Steady Straight Level Flight; |
Week - 12 |
FLIGHT MECHANICS-II: Steady Straight Climb; Steady Straight Descent |
Week - 13 |
FLIGHT MECHNANICS-III: Steady Straight Glide; Steady Coordinated Turn |
Week - 14 |
FLIGHT MECHNANICS-IV: Asymmetric Thrust; Particular Points in the Polar Curve |