Principles of Flight 1

Garant předmětu:

Vladimír Socha

Lecturer:

Přemysl Vávra

Tutor:

Marek Veselý

Supervisor:

Department of Air Transport

Synopsis:

Aerodynamic drag, relation between drag and speed, streamline, boundary layer, formula of continuity, formula of Bernoulli, lift and drag, air flow and pressures around wing, angle of attack, reactions of wing in air flow, lift and drag of a wing and an aircraft, coefficient of lift and drag, critical angle of attack, wing with final span, induced drag, interference, devices for lift and drag increase.

Requirements:

Written and oral exam

Syllabus of lectures:

The course content is based on the requirements of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011. Numbers in brackets are the topics specified in Appendix "Subject 081 - Principles of Flight - Airplanes' to AMC1 FCL.310; FCL.515 (b); FCL.615 (b).

•Basics of airflow, Aerodynamic forces on aerofoils, Wing shape (081 01 01 00)

•Two-dimensional airflow around an aerofoil, Stagnation point, Influence of angle of attack (081 01 02 00)

•The lift & drag coefficient (081 01 03 00)

•Three-dimensional airflow around an aeroplane, Induced drag (081 01 04 00)

•Total drag, Parasite drag, Variables affecting the total drag-speed graph (081 01 05 00)

•The relationship between lift coefficient and speed in steady, straight, and level flight (081 01 07 00)

•The stall, CLMAX augmentation (081 03 01 00, 081 01 09 00)

•Ground effect, Effect on lift coefficient (081 01 06 00)

•Means to reduce the CL-CD ratio (081 01 10 00, 081 01 12 00)

•Flight mechanics - forces acting on an aeroplane, Straight, horizontal, steady flight (081 08 01 01)

•Straight, steady climb, descent and glide (081 08 01 02 - 081 08 01 04)

•Steady, coordinated turn (081 08 01 05)

•Propellers - conversion of engine torque to thrust (081 07 01 00)

•Propellers - engine failure, secondary effects (081 07 02 00 - 081 07 04 00)

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

The goal of the course is to explain principles of aerodynamics with the intention of low-speed aerodynamics.

Study materials:

BROŽ, Václav: Aerodynamika nízkých rychlostí. Vydavatelství ČVUT. 1995

DANĚK, Vladimír, FILAKOVSKÝ, Karol: Základy letu. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno 2006

John D. Anderson: Fundamentals of Aerodynamics. McGraw-Hill Education 2016

John J. Bertin, Russell M. Cummings: Aerodynamics for Engineers. Pearson 2013

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2023/2024:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2023/2024:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomHO:B-304 Veselý M. 08:00–09:30 EVEN WEEK (parallel nr.199) Horská 3 (nová budova)roomHO:A349 Vávra P. 18:30–20:00 (lecture parallel1) Horská 3 (stará budova)
Wed	roomHO:A270 Veselý M. 15:00–16:30 EVEN WEEK (parallel nr.198) Horská 3 (stará budova) Počítačová učebnaroomHO:B-301 Veselý M. 16:45–18:15 EVEN WEEK (parallel nr.280) Horská 3 (nová budova)
Thu
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The course is a part of the following study plans: