AE643 : Gas Dynamics

Department

Department of Aeronautical Engineering

Academic Program

Master in Master of Aerospace Engineering

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

Overview

Review of fundamental, reversible and irreversible process. Control volumeanalysis, conservation of mass, moments, conservation of energy, pressure energyequation. Compressible flow equation, h-s and T-s diagram. Perfect gas with losses,nozzle performance, diffuser performance. Norma shock wave analysis, oblique shockwave analysis and applications, Prandtl Meyer shock waves. Fanoo flow, correlationwith shock waves, friction chocking. Rayleigh flow, application, correlation with shock waves, thermal chocking. Propulsion systems, cycles analysis, propulsion equations,system efficiency, supersonic diffuser.