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Fundamentals of Supersonic and Hypersonic Flow
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| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 1000 | yes | IIT Kharagpur |
The Syllabus
- Introduction to supersonic and hypersonic flows
- Characteristics of the two flow regimes
- Where do these flows occur?
- Governing equations of inviscid compressible flow
- Small disturbance equations and local surface inclination theory for supersonic and hypersonic flow
- Brief introduction to waves
- Normal, oblique shocks, Expansion waves
- Shock and expansion wave relations in the high Mach number limit
- Shock-shock, shock-vortex interactions
- Governing equations of viscous compressible flow
- Compressible Boundary Layer Equations
- Aerodynamic heating
- Shock wave boundary layer interactions
- High temperature gas dynamics
- Thermodynamics and chemistry of high temperature gases
- Equilibrium chemically reacting gas mixture
- Basics of statistical thermodynamics
- Excitation of various molecular energy modes
- Macrostates and microstates
- Equilibrium composition of high temperature air
- Occurrence of non-equilibrium – at different scales, in atmospheric flight and astrophysical flows
- Vibrational rate equation
- Chemical rate equation
- High temperature air in chemical non-equilibrium
- Governing equations for inviscid high temperature equilibrium flow
- Inviscid equilibrium normal shock, oblique shock, nozzle flow, blunt body flow
- Equilibrium and frozen flow
- Some numerical simulation results using SU2/ OpenFOAM
- Governing equations for Inviscid high temperature non- equilibrium flow
- Distinction between equilibrium, frozen and non-equilibrium flow
- Inviscid non-equilibrium normal shock, oblique shock, nozzle flow, blunt body flow
- Some numerical simulation results using SU2/ OpenFOAM
- Basics of chemically reacting viscous flows with radiative effects- with examples from atmospheric flight and astrophysical flows
- 1. Revision and recapitulation of the main concepts
- 2. Discussion and comparison of supersonic and hypersonic flow over some standard geometries: flat plate, wedge, double ramp, blunt nose, hollow flare etc.
- Similarities and dissimilarities in the flow characteristics of the supersonic and hypersonic regimes- Aerospace vehicle design
- Other applications of shock waves: Brief discussion on medical applications, detonation waves, volcanic eruption, supernova and cosmic shock wave interaction etc
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28 Jul'25, 11:45 AM
28 Jul'25, 11:45 AM