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The idea of Aerodynamics and Aeronautical Engineering might be connected to aeroplanes but without a thorough understanding and knowledge of the engineering behind every mechanism which is driven and influenced by the operations of the air and wind; it might be really tough to follow aeronautics. Industrial Aerodynamics paper has 10 short answer questions each holding 2 marks and 5 long answer questions having a weightage of 12 marks each. Thus, short questions form 25% of the paper while long questions form 75%. Some of the topics covered under it are types of winds, atmospheric boundary layers, vertical and horizontal axis machines and their differences, drag coefficient, pressure distribution on high rise building, building codes and their uses, wake formation and their bluff bodies, causes of variation of winds, effect of Terrain on gradient height, special features of industrial and stationery gas turbines, power coefficient, momentum theory, effect of aerodynamics on trans and hovercrafts, building ventilation and the architectural aerodynamics, effect of Reynolds number on wake formation of bluff shapes, Vortex induced vibrations, galloping, windmill and wind turbine and their differences, horseshoe vortex, problem of a high rise building etc.