2011-2012 SPRING SEMESTER

AE 410
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Instructor: Assoc.Prof.Dr. D. Funda Kurtulu (Room: 101, Tel: 210 42 91, Email: funda.kurtulus@gmail.com) Assistant : Talha Mutlu Course Hours: Wednesday 13:40-16:30 (Lectures and /or Labs); Room AE-AUD Description: Introduction. Experimental errors. Statistical Analysis of experimental data. Data acquisition and processing. Report writing and presentations. Wind Tunnels. Pressure, flow and shear stress measurements. Flow Visualization. Temperature measurement. Force, torque, strain measurement. Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of dynamic and controller systems. Laboratory experiments. Textbook: Holman, J. P. Experimental Methods for Engineers, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2001, ISBN:0-07-029622-7 Rae, W. and Pope, A., Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, 3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc.1999, ISBN: 0-471-55774-9 Reference Books: Experimental Fluid Mechanics, P. Bradshaw, Pergamon Press, 1970 Fluid Mechanics Measurements, R.J. Goldstein (Ed.), Taylor Francis, Washington 1996. TA357.F684. Handbook of Flow Visualization, W-J Yang, 2nd edition, Taylor and Francis, 2001 Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Tropea, Cameron; Yarin, Alexander L.; Foss, John F. Springer, 2007. Software Matlab LabView Fluent/Ansys, Star CCM+ or other CFD softwares Solidworks or other CAD drawing softwares Grading: Labs/Lab Reports 20% Project (Internal reports, Presentation, poster presentation, paper) 30% Attendance 10% 1 Midterm 25 April 2012 Wednesday @ 13:40 20% Final 20% Course Outline: 1. Introduction and Basic Concepts (2 weeks) Definition of Terms, calibration, standards, dimensions and units, the generalized measurement system, basic concepts in dynamic measurements, system response 2. Analysis of Experimental Data (2 weeks) Causes and types of experimental errors, error analysis, uncertainty analysis, evaluation of uncertainties for complicated data reduction. Statistical analysis of experimental data Probability distributions, the Gaussian and normal error distribution, method of least squares, the correlation coefficient, standard deviation of the mean, graphical analysis and curve fitting, general considerations in data analysis 3. Signal processing. Reduction of Variables- Dimensional analysis. (2 weeks) Signal processing. Fourier transformation, sampling and discretization, Discrete Fourier transformation, windows. The Buckingham-Pi theorem, selection of groups and variables, the choice of primary variables using dimensional analysis in experimentation, non-dimensional parameters 4. Data acquisition and processing. (1 week) The general data acquisition system, signal conditioning, analog to digital and digital to analog conversion, data storage and display.

Midterm1: 25 April 2012 Wednesday @ 13:40

5. Wind Tunnels and Wind Tunnel calibration (2 weeks) Important parameters for similarity. Types of wind tunnels. Aeronautical wind tunnels, smoke tunnels, automobile wind tunnels, aeroacoustic wind tunnels, water tunnels, general purpose wind tunnels, environmental wind tunnels. Test section flow calibration, wind tunnel boundary layers, wind tunnel data systems. 6. Pressure Measurement (1 week) 7. Flow Visualization (1 week) Path, streak, stream and timelines. Direct visualization. Surface flow visualization. Flow field visualization. Data driven visualization. Laboratories: All the lab reports are due to the following week of the laboratory work until 16:30. No late submission will be accepted. The hardcopy of the lab reports should be given to the instructor (softcopies or emails will not be accepted for any kind of excuse). Lab 1: Oscilloscope and Function Generator (14 March 2012- Dr. Melin Sahin) Lab 2: Longitudinal Waves in an elastic bar (28 March 2012- Dr. Altan Kayran) Use strain gauges and instrumentation to determine the velocity of elastic waves in steel, aluminum and/or brass bars. Calculate the modulus of elasticity of the bars from the experimental values of the wave velocity. Use large and small sample statistics and error analysis methods to evaluate uncertainties in time measurements and the elastic moduli Lab 3: Propulsion lab (18 April 2012- Dr. Oguz Uzol) Lab 4: Structure lab (2 May 2012- Dr. Demirkan ker) Lab 5: Control lab (16 May 2012-Dr. Ali Trker Kutay) Projects: You must submit 2 internal reports and a final project report in the format of one of the following journal types including introduction, computational results, conclusion and references parts. You should form group of 4 students. End of the semester, you will have project presentations, poster presentations and you should submit put all the computations, reports , paper and presentations in a DVD. Each team member should attend the Project Presentation of their own team and should present the part of the Project that he/she has contributed. You should prepare a project and write a paper in the format of one of the following journals according to your project: (Check the website of the Journals to see if there are similar works close to your Project in these journals published as a paper, give them as reference in your own paper.)
-AIAA Journal -AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Aeronautical Journal -Journal of Aerospace Engineering -PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART G-JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING -PROGRESS IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES -FLUID DYNAMICS RESEARCH -FLOW MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION -THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS -COMPUTERS & FLUIDS -EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS B-FLUIDS -INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS -INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Major Project topics are: Aerodynamics of simple geometries, bluff bodies, airfoils, wing geometries, different winglet shapes... One or two groups could work on Wind Tunnel Design of RUZGEM Aeroelastic analysis of a thin flat plate Mini/Micro UAV design, parametrical study. Manufacturing and test flights will be performed under strict regulations including the lab area usage procedures. You are obliged to clean the lab after each time that you work there and you should put anything that you have used back to its place. You will be responsible to find the sponsorship for your aircrafts motor, esc, servo, propeller and balsa. You will have a place in Hangar Building for the manufacturing of your aircraft. Experimental parts of the projects are highly encouraged.