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ME564 Aerodynamics

Instructor: Fue-Sang Lien


ERC-2024; Ext: 36528
Email: fslien@uwaterloo.ca
UW-Learn Course
Website
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Textbooks

• Fundamentals of Aerodynamics
[Theory]
• Aircraft Performance and Deign

by J.D. Anderson
Marking Scheme
1. Assignments (2)  15%
2. Quiz (1)  10%
3. Aircraft design project  25%
4. Final exam  50%

Group of  3 people for design project


Topics
• Introduction (Drag/Lift/Moment)
• Aerodynamics (Theory)
– 2-D airfoil
– 3-D finite wing
• Propulsion
• Aircraft performance
& design  aircraft design project
References:
•Aerodynamics for Engineers, John J. Bertin & Michael L. Smith,
Prentice Hall.
•Aerodynamics, Aeronautics and Flight Mechanics,
Barnes W. McCormick, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
•Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Daniel P. Raymer,
AIAA Education Series.
•Fundamental of Flight, Richard S. Shevell, Prentice Hall.
•Introduction to Aircraft Performance, Selection and Design,
Francis J. Hale, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
•An Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, McGraw-Hill.
•Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mark Lambert (Ed.),
Jane's Information Group Inc.
•Theory of Wing Sections, I.H. Abbott and A.E. Von Doenhoff,
Dover Publications, Inc.
See “Course Outline” on Learn
Topics
• Introduction (Drag/Lift/Moment)
• Aerodynamics (Theory)
– 2-D airfoil
– 3-D finite wing
• Propulsion
• Aircraft performance
& design
Cruise

Takeoff & Landing


ac (aerodynamic center) at c/4
Cl NACA2412


NACA Airfoil
Reference:
Theory of Wing Sections, I.H. Abbott and
A.E. Von Doenhoff, Dover Publications, Inc.
Lift Payload of Aircraft

Drag Engine Selection

Moment Stability & Control


Lwing
Ltail

W
Cambered Airfoil
Cl NACA2412


Wing Planform Area
Two of NASA’s Wind
Tunnels

Langley
Ames 80’ x 120’
W(1,2)
See Learn Course Website
Weekly Reading
Assignment #1
Homework with Solutions
Topics
• Introduction (Drag/Lift/Moment)
• Aerodynamics (Theory)
– 2-D airfoil
– 3-D finite wing
• Propulsion
• Aircraft performance
& design
Dynamic Similarity
• Geometrically Similar
• At same angle of attack, 
• Same CL(M,Re) for both free
flight (cruise) and wind tunnel
conditions
Same M,Re for both free flight
(cruise) and wind tunnel conditions
http://gis.larc.nasa.gov/historic/Variable_Density_Tunnel
Cambered Airfoil

LE: leading edge


TE: trailing edge
Symmetric Airfoil
Tail
In general, cl(M,Re,)
• Incompressible Flow
cl(Re,)
• < stall
cl()=2π
Can be derived from thin-airfoil
theory.
Cl NACA2412


Flow separation

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