AERO 303: High Speed Aerodynamics

Course Description

Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Fundamentals of compressible flow; governing Euler equations; adiabatic and isentropic flow; normal and oblique shocks and expansion waves, moving shocks, shock interactions, wedge and cone flow; supersonic airfoils, exact and thin theory, choked flow and wind-tunnel design, two-dimensional gas dynamics, and method of characteristics.Prerequisite:Grade of C or better inAERO 301.