LIFTING FLOWS AND PROPELLER THEORY


General Info


  • Course Title: Lifting Flows And Propeller Theory
  • Course Code: ΝΑΟMΕ1360
  • Semester: 9th
  • Course Type: S.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 5 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 6
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NA228/
  • Professors: E. Filippas


Course Content / Syllabus


Euler equations, Navier Stokes Equations. Helmholtz laws for the conservation of vorticity in curvilinear coordinate systems. Wake models, free vortex sheets. Kutta-Joukowski theorem. Kutta Condition. Bound and free vorticity fields on the foil surface and the wake of the foil. Mathematical modeling of the flow around foils. Steady and unsteady lifting flow hydrodynamic problems. Potential Theory. Representation theorems of the velocity potential. Numerical treatment of lifting flow problems with Boundary Element Methods. Viscosity corrections exploiting boundary layer theory.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎