Boston University, ENG AM 420

Aerodynamics

SYLLABUS FOR SPRING 2002
 

Text: Fundamentals of Aerodynamics,  J. Anderson Jr.
 

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DATES
READING
CLASS ACTIVITIES 
HW #
HW DUE DATE
1
1/15
 
Receive first two lecture assignments
Readiness Exam
        1/22
2
1/17
Sec. 1.8 (Ex. 1.4,1.5)
Sec. 1.10
No Lecture
Homework 1
        1/22
3,4
1/22,24
Sec. 2.3-2.6,2.9
Governing Equations of Fluid Motion
1/29
5,6
1/29,31
Sec. 2.17 
Intro to CFD  (my matlab example)
2/7
7
2/5
Sec. 2.11-2.13
Streamline, vorticity, circulation 
2/14
8
2/7
Sec. 3.2-3.5
Bernoulli
 
 
9,10,11
2/12,14,21
Sec. 3.6-3.18
Elementary Flows
(Example Maple Script)
Lift = circulation
 Lab 1 assignment
 

PRELAB data (text file)

Homework 5

Report:One week after completing the experiment

At time of lab

 12
 2/26
 
Catch up day/ review
3/14, 3/19, and 3/21
13
2/28
 
Midterm   Solutions
 
 
14
3/12
Sec. 4.1-4.3 
Airfoil nomenclature,
Airfoil computer project continued
 
 
15
3/14
Sec.4.10-4.11
Computational methods (more comments)
Lab 2 sign up.
Date of lab
16,17,18
3/19,21,26
Sec.4.4-4.9
Thin airfoil thoery
Laboratory 2
Homework 6 
 

3/28

19,20,21
3/28,4/2,4/4
Chap. 5
High AR Wings, lifting line Laboratory 3
NECESSARY FILE FOR HMWK7
Homework 7
 4/4
Homework 8
Homework 9
4/11
4/18
22
4/9
Chap. 7
Linearized Compressible
 
 
23,24,25
4/11,16,18
Chap. 17,18
Boundary layers
4/30
26,27,28
4/23,25,30
 
Catch up days/review/evaluations
 
 
5/6
EXAM  Monday May 6th   9-11 GCB 209  
01/03/02