HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

School of Engineering & Architecture

Aeronautical Engineering Program
Instructional Material in AERODYNAMICS 1

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3. BASIC AERODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES AND

APPLICATIONS
MODULE 3 ASSIGNMENT (PROBLEM SOLVING)
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1. A uniform current of air with a speed of 100 ft. per sec flows around a circular cylinder. At a
distance from the cylinder the pressure is atmospheric. What is the pressure on the cylinder
surface at a 90o arc from the direction of airflow?

2. A cylinder 1.22 m in diameter and 3.5 m long is rotating at 100 rpm in an airstream of 18 m/s.
Determine the total lift of the cylinder at standard sea level conditions.

3. Consider the stabilizer on a light airplane as a flat plate for the purpose of determining its skin-
friction drag. If the transition RN is 750,000, what is the skin-friction drag of a rectangular
stabilizer having a span of 1.83 m and a chord of 0.91 m at a speed of 44.7 meters per second?
Assume standard sea level conditions.

4. An airplane is flying at a density altitude of 4,500 m at an ambient temperature of 234 K. If the

wing chord is 1.83 m and the equivalent airspeed is 103 meters per second, what is the overall
Reynolds number of the wing?

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