Topic:Aerospace engineering
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Welcome to the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
Aerospace Engineering deals specifically with aircraft and spacecraft, as well as any other types of machines that can fly. Topics within aerospace engineering include, but are not limited to, aerodynamics, structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, propulsion, and control systems. These topics can be applied to missiles, space structures, satellites, and all aspects related to atmosphere and space flight.
Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the production of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.
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[edit] Areas of study
[edit] General Prerequisites
- Basic Mathematics - differentials, integrals, basic mechanics, vector algebra, matrices and matrix manipulation, total derivative (for mass and momentum equations, among others)
- Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer - Zereoth, First, Second and Third Laws, Enthalpy, Entropy, Clausius Inequality and ??, Steady State Equation, Modelling Gas Turbines/Engines, Conduction, Convection, Radiation (Black Body, Grey Body)
- Circuits/Electronics
- Physics - Forces, Gravity Equation
[edit] Statics
- Structural Analysis
- Mechanics - Friction on a surface, Rolling bodies, Stability, Pure/Damped/Forced Harmonic Motion, Orbits (reaching orbit, geostationary point, changing orbit, escape velocity)
[edit] Fluid mechanics
- Aerodynamics - Derivation of shear stress on a fluid, perfect gas equation, Bernoulli equation, Langrangian and Eulerian reference frames, control volumes and control surfaces, Conservation of mass up to 3-d, balance of momentum equations up to 3-d, Aerofoils, Circulation, Mach Number & Reynolds Number, laminar and turbulent flow, Propulsion & Turbomachinery
[edit] Aircraft Structures
- Basic Strength of Materials
- Aircraft Structures - Basic
- Aircraft Structures - Advanced
- Structural Analysis
- Recent Topics
[edit] Materials Science
- Material Classes - Metals, Ceramics, Composites, Polymers, Ionic and Covalents
- Material Microstructure
- Properties of Materials - Strength, Stiffness, Young's Modulus, Elasiticity and Modulus of Elasticity, Hardness, Toughness, Electrical Properties?
- Materials Selection
- Material Processes - Annealing, Quenching, Precipitaiton Hardening, Case Hardening
- Failure - Fatigue, Creep, Fracture, Case studies (aircraft)
- Composites - matrix and fibers, explanation of directional properties, case studes (carbon fibre, kevlar, fibreglass)
[edit] Aircraft Design
- Basic Aircraft Performance - Air density at altitudes, Perfect Gas equation,
- Dynamics and Control - Control Surfaces,
[edit] Aviation engines
- Hydraulic gas dynamics - characteristics of gas flowing through
- Theory of impeler machines - profiling blades of compressor and turbine, multistage compressor and multistage turbine
- Theory of jet engines - modeling turbojet engines
- Construction of jet engines
[edit] Aeroelasticity
- Introduction
- Static Aeroelasticity
- Dynamic Aeroelasticity
- Flight Testing
[edit] Rover Design
[edit] Department news
The Aerospace Department is concerned with the technology that constitutes of Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering.
[edit] Related news
- (2008) 'Avoiding wind tunnels, computer simulations pave way for hypersonic flight'
- April 26, 2007 - Paper on hyperdrive system wins award at conference and is examined by US Government researchers...[1]
- March 27, 2007 - NASA seeks research proposals.
- March 20, 2007 - Private company to launch rocket.
[edit] Topics
- Topic:Fluid mechanics
- Topic:Aerodynamics
- Topic:Aeronautics
- Topic:Astrodynamics
- Topic:Orbital mechanics
- Topic:Statics
- Topic:Engineering mechanics
- School:Mathematics
- Topic:Electrotechnology
- Topic:Turbomachinery
- Topic:Control engineering
- Topic:Aircraft flight control systems
- Topic:Aircraft structures
- Topic:Materials science
- Topic:Solid mechanics
- Topic:Aeroelasticity
- Topic:Avionics
- Topic:Reliability engineering
- Topic:Noise control
- Topic:Flight testing
[edit] External links
- Personal Air Vehicle Page at Cafe Foundation (in affiliation with NASA)
- Open avionics
- Boeing's electric plane using fuelcells.
- OpenAvionics
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Projects at Standford's Aerodynamics Design Group
- A Project to create a supersonic homebrew rocket

