Third Edition
Ashish Garg
(M.E. IISc, Bangalore)
Aerodynamics
Ashish Garg
2015 by Author
This book is manufactured in India and is authorized for sale only by GATE Aerospace Forum
Edutional Services.
First Edition : 2013
Second Edition : 2014
Third Edition : 2015
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Dedicated to
My Grandparents
(whose blessings and love have always been with me)
Scientists
(who work throughout their lives in contributing theories to mankind worth applying,
feeling, reading and writing again and again)
My Students
(who have been my teachers and suggested me to start the project)
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Preface
This book is an attempt to explain fundamental laws of fluids in a simple language as well as
to create a compendium of the concepts of Aerodynamics. It has been principally designed
and documented keeping in mind the course structure and understanding level of students
majoring Aeronautical or Aerospace Engineering in India. This book will definitely
complement their specialist reading of Aerodynamics.
Salient features of the book are as follows :
I would like to express my deepest gratitude for my Professor Dr. Joseph Mathew for his
invaluable guidance, continuous support and motivation and Professor Dr. Praveen
Chandrashekar for his precious teachings including computational techniques which can be
beautifully applied to frontier problems in fluid studies. I would like to thank TIFR-CAM and
IISc, Bangalore for providing me an excellent working environment and my seniors who
have been a constant source of inspiration and support for me.
I express sincere and heartfelt thanks to my student Sonakshi Shyam Arora for helping me in
preparing this book.
I would express my deepest gratitude for my parents and other family members for their
whole-hearted affection, inspiration, constant encouragement and support.
Last but not the least, I am very much thankful to some of the greatest prodigies in the field
of Aerospace, Shri J.R.D. Tata (Founder - IISc), Dr. Satish Dawan (Father of Experimental
Fluid Dynamics), Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Former President of India), Kalpana Chawla
(Indian Astronaut - NASA), Prof. Roddam Narasimha (Director of - JNCASR) for being an
unmatched inspiration for thousands of scholars like me in Aerospace Engineering.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
Stream function()........................................................................................................................78
Potential Function .......................................................................................................................79
Types of flows .................................................................................................................................81
Uniform Flow ..............................................................................................................................81
Uniform Flow inclined at an angle ........................................................................................81
Point Source(+) or Sink(-) ...........................................................................................................82
Vortex Flow.................................................................................................................................84
Combination of Elementary flows.................................................................................................85
Half Rankine Oval ......................................................................................................................85
Full Rankine Oval.......................................................................................................................89
Source Sink Doublet ................................................................................................................90
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