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Courses » Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics

Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics

ABOUT THE COURSE
 The course introduces compressible flow and its constitutive equations. The physical concepts behind isentropic flows, area-Mach number relation etc will be discussed with practical problems in mind. Properties of shocks and expansions are important parts of this course. All the numerical examples will be in SI units.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
 Undergraduate students of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 PRE-REQUISITES
 Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL RECOGNIZE THIS COURSE
 Aerospace industry

1378 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR



Prof. A. Sameen
Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Madras

Research interest: Fluid Mechanics

Current interests: Stability, Transition and Turbulence, Thermal Convection, Quantum Fluids, Magnetohydrodynamics

Homepage
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/~sameen


COURSE ASSISTANTS
Mr. Manjul Sharma
Ms. Aswathy Nair
COURSE LAYOUT

 Week 1 : Fluids, compressible flow I & II laws of TD Clausius inequality
Week 2: Control volume analysis Conservation of mass Conservation of momentum
Week 3: Conservation of energy, Tutorial
Week 4: Sonic velocity, Wave propagation, Pressure-energy relation
Week 5: Stagnation concept, Isentropic flows, Stagnation relations, Tutorial
Week 6: Varying area flow Mass, momentum, energy equations Converging nozzle
Week 7: M* concept, Gas tables, C-D nozzle, Tutorial
Week 8: Standing normal shocks, Prandtl's relation, Normal shocks in CD nozzle
Week 9: Rankine-Hugoniot equation, Moving shocks, Tutorial
Week 10: Oblique Shocks, Theta-Beta-M relation, Shock polar curves
Week 11: Expansion fans, Prandtl-Meyer flow, Tutorial

Grading

There will be a total of 10 assignments. Most of the questions will be objective type with/without choices given. Each assignment will have a 10-days deadline from the upload date, which is not flexible. Best 6 out of these 10 assignments will be considered for final grading, which will carry 40% weightage. Remaining 60% will be from final examination.

Certification Exam

The exam is optional. Exams will be on 24 April 2016 and 30 April 2016.
Time: 2pm-5pm

Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.

Certificate

Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam.

It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.


SUGGESTED READING

(1)Gas Dynamics, Zucker & Biblarz, 2nd ed. Wiley India
(2)Gas Dynamics , Liepmann & Roshko, Dover Publications
(3)Dynamics and Thermodynamics of compressible flow, A. Shapiro