Compressible Flow I

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: AEROSP 325. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Elements of inviscid compressible-flow theory: review of thermodynamics; equations of frictionless flow; analysis of unsteady one-dimensional and steady supersonic two-dimensional flows; including the method of characteristics; small-disturbance theory with applications to supersonic thin-airfoil theory.