Topic:Aerospace engineering/Areas of study

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[edit] General Prerequisites

• Basic mathematics - differentials, integrals, basic mechanics, vector algebra, matrices and matrix manipulation, total derivative (for mass and momentum equations, among others)
  • Calculus (Wikibook)
  • Differential Equations (Wikibook)
• 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)
  • Engineering Thermodynamics (Wikibook)
• Circuits/Electronics
• Physics - Forces, Gravity Equation
  • Gravity (Wikibook)

Contents 1 General Prerequisites 2 Statics 3 Fluid mechanics 3.1 Wikibooks 4 Aircraft Structures 5 Aircraft Systems 6 Materials Science 6.1 Wikibook 7 Aircraft Design 8 Aviation engines 9 Computational fluid dynamics 10 Aeroelasticity 11 Rover design

[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)
  • Solid Mechanics (Wikibook)

[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] Wikibooks

• Aerodynamics
• Jet Propulsion
• Rocket Propulsion

[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, Precipitation Hardening, Case Hardening
• Failure - Fatigue, Creep, Fracture, Case studies (aircraft)
• Composites - matrix and fibers, explanation of directional properties, case studies (carbon fibre, kevlar, fibreglass)

[edit] Wikibook

• Material Science

[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, multi-stage compressor and multi-stage turbine
• Theory of jet engines - modeling turbojet engines
• Construction of jet engines

[edit] Rover design

• Rover Mission Analysis and Design