Course | Undergraduate |
Semester | Electives |
Subject Code | AE472 |
Subject Title | Experimental Aerodynamics |
Concept of similarity and design of experiments – measurement uncertainty – design of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, and high enthalpy test facilities – transducers and their response characteristics – measurement of pressure, temperature, velocity, forces, moments and dynamic stability derivatives – flow visualization techniques – optical measurement techniques – refractive index based measurements and scattering based measurements – data acquisition and signal conditioning – signal and image processing.
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2. Barlow, J. B., Rae Jr, W. H., and Pope, A., Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, 3rd ed., Wiley (1999).
3. Pope, A. and Goin K., High-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, Krieger Pub. Co. (1978).
4. Settles, G. S., Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques: Visualizing Phenomena in Transparent Media, Springer (2001).
5. Mayinger, F. and Feldmann, O. (Eds.), Optical Measurements: Techniques and Applications, 2nd ed., Springer (2001).
6. Doebelin, E. O., Measurement Systems: Application and Design, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill (2003).