AE 4043 - AERONAUTICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

(Intake 31 – AE/ME Stream/2015)

TUTORIAL - 1 (12 Aug 2015)

1. Theonest is flying in a hot air baloon over KDU and measures the outside
pressure and temperature to be 9.5 x 10 4 N/m2 and 283 K respectively. Calculate the
pressure and density altitudes at which he is flying.

2. A high –speed subsonic McDonnell – Douglas DC – 10 airliner is flying at a

pressure altitude of 10 km. A Pitot tube on the wing tip measures a pressure of 4.24 X
104 N/m2. Calculate the Mach number at which the airplane is flying. If the ambient air
temperature is 230 K, calculate the true airspeed and the calibrated airspeed.

3. An experimental rocket – powered aircraft is flying at a velocity of 4828.03 kmph

at an altitude where the ambient pressure and temperature are 0.0723 bar and 216.66
K, respectively. A Pitot tube is mounted in the nose of the aircraft. What is the pressure
measured by the Pitot tube?

4. Consider an airplane flying at a velocity of 250 m/s. Calculate its Mach number if
it is flying at a standard altitude of (a) sea level, (b) 5 km, (c) 10 km.

5. Consider isentropic flow over an airfoil. The free stream pressure, velocity and
density are 1.013 bar, 804.7 kmph, and 1.23 kg/m 3. At a point on the airfoil (top surface),
the pressure is 0.7167 bar. What is the Mach number and velocity at this particular
point?

6. At a point in an airflow the pressure, temperature and velocity are 1 atm, 320 K
and 1000 m/s. Calculate the total temperature and total pressure at this point.

7. Write a brief essay on what you understand by “total conditions”.

Note: All these problems can be solved with the relationships we have obtained so far. You can
discuss the problems, but do calculations on your own. Due on 25 Aug 2015.

Sqn Ldr JI Abeygoonewardene , Dept of AE