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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinematics, fundamental laws of mechanics, constraints, and generalized coordinates. Lagrange's equations, virtual work. Application to particle dynamics, rigid body motion, and spacecraft dynamics. Knowledge of differential equations required. The distance offering of this course originates from the West Lafayette campus, is offered through streaming video via ProEd, and may be made available at the Calumet campus. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Dynamics & Control, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Formulation of optimization problems encountered in aerospace engineering. Minima of functions and functionals, necessary conditions, calculus of variations, control formulation, two-point boundary-value problems. Applications to typical problems in aerospace engineering, such as optimal launch, minimum time to climb, maximum range, and optimal space trajectories. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Design, AE Dynamics & Control, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. The basic conservation equations are derived for a compressible viscous fluid, and then are specialized for applications in potential flow, viscous flow, and gas dynamics. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Finite difference methods for solving fluid flow problems. Review of classification of partial differential equations, well-posed problems, and discrete approximation of partial differential equations. Matrix and von Neumann stability analysis. Consistency and convergence. Grid generation: elliptic, hyperbolic, and transfinite mesh generation methods. Methods for solving the unsteady Euler equations: finite-volume formulations, flux-split and flux-difference formulations, shock-capturing, formulation of boundary conditions, artificial viscosity models, and multi-grid acceleration. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Characteristics of transonic flight. Supercritical airfoils. Nonlinear small disturbance theory. Similarity and area rules. Solution methods for small disturbance, full potential and Euler equations. Artificial viscosity. Relaxation and factorization schemes. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Thin airfoil theory and panel methods. Three-dimensional elementary solutions, lifting-line and lifting-surface models. Slender wing and slender body theory. Normal/oblique shock waves. One- and multi-dimensional flows and conical flows. Method of characteristics. Introduction to transonic flow, hypersonic flow, and airfoil design. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) concepts and configurations. Rotor kinematics. Momentum and blade element theory. Rotor wakes and noise. Airfoil design for rotorcraft. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques, rotorcraft performance, and design. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of inviscid fluid dynamics. Linearized flow theory; indicial and harmonic responses; panel methods for unsteady airfoils and wings. Simple applications to dynamic simulation and aeroelastic stability. Nonlinear theory for transonic flow; introduction to time dependent finite difference methods. FORTRAN programming used extensively. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and design for control of liquid propellants in weightlessness. Gravity and orbits review. Satellite and space-probe acceleration environments. Capillary-dominated fluid dynamics: contact angle, surface tension, curvatures, and solution methods. Industry practice and current topics. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Aerodynamics of satellites and planetary re-entry. Continuum hypersonic flow. Inviscid and viscous effects, boundary layers, and heat transfer. Shock and boundary-layer interactions. Equilibrium flow of high-temperature reacting gases. Nonequilibrium effects. Kinetic theory and rarefied flows. Direct simulation Monte Carlo techniques. Typically offered Spring. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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