Boston University, ENG AM 423

Compressible Aerodynamics

SYLLABUS FOR Fall 2007

Text: Modern Compressible Flow 3rd ed., J. Anderson Jr.

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Date	Reading	Topic	Assignment	Due Date
9/5	Chap. 1	Introduction	Homework 1	9/12
9/10,12	Chaps. 2&6	Governing equations of fluid motion	Homework 2	9/19
9/17	Secs. 3.1-3.5	1-D flow, definitions, Normal shocks	Homework 3	9/26
9/19	Secs. 3.6-3.9	Normal shocks, Hugoniot relations
9/19		1-D with heat and friction
9/24	Chap. 4	Oblique shocks, reflections
9/26,10/1		Expansion waves	Homework 4	10/9
10/8		Holiday – Monday classes on Tues.	Double wedge airfoil project
10/9		MATLAB tutorial
10/10	NO CLASS	Work on double wedge airfoil project
10/3,15,17	Chap. 5	Quasi-1-D flow, Nozzles, diffusers	Homework 5	10/19 (4:30)
	Chap. 8,9	Linearized flow, wing analysis etc.
		MIDTERM 10/29	Double wedge Final part	11/5
	Chap. 10	Cone flow	Cone flow	11/19
		Numerical Methods	Computational Lab	12/3
	Chap. 14,15,17	Transonic, hypersonic	Homework 6	12/10
		Final Dec 17^th (Monday) 9-11

11/28/07