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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory and application of experimental techniques and instrumentation for aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. Computer data acquisition, wind tunnels, force balances, flow visualization, pressure probes, hot wire anemometry, laser Doppler velocimetry and turbulence measurements. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory, Lecture, Practice Study Observation, Recitation School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Aerodynamics, Upper Division
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Atmospheric flight dynamics of fixed- and variable-mass vehicles, over a flat or spherical, rotating earth. Quasi-steady analysis, energy state approximations, flight trajectory simulation. Effects of aerodynamic and propulsion system characteristics on flight performance. Point-mass as well as attitude dynamics; introduction to flexibility effects. Missile and aircraft application. 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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Credit Hours: 3.00. Orbit determination of near-earth satellites and various perturbations; libration and attitude control; orbit transfer and interception; lunar theory and interplanetary orbits; ascending mechanics and re-entry. 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. Intensive one-semester treatment of the aerospace propulsion component development process. Derivation of design requirements from mission objective to detailed components; the design process. Standard methods for thermostructural, life, performance, and combustion stability design analysis; combustor design. Experimental procedures; fabrication; test. Special topics according to student interest. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Laboratory, Lecture School of Aero and Astro Engr College Aeronautics & Astronautics Department Course Attributes: AE Design, AE Propulsion, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of advanced energy conversion processes, with a strong emphasis on thermodynamics, kinetics, and atomic physics, as applied to aerospace systems. Concepts in physical chemistry, including atomic phenomena, a review of thermodynamics, kinetics, and rate processes, electrochemistry, photochemistry, surface processes and catalysis, and colloidal phenomena, energy storage, thermoelectric and thermionic power generation, fuel cells, direct matter to energy conversion, field power generation, and electric fusion concepts. 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 Propulsion, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of advanced high speed air breathing propulsion concepts for hypersonic flight. Missions and trajectories. Engine/airframe integration. Aerothermodynamic analysis of ramjets, scramjets, and oblique detonation wave engines. On- and off-design of compression inlets and minimum length nozzles. Cryogenic fuels and skin cooling. Ram accelerator ballistic launch concepts. 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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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. (M E 538) Analysis of operating characteristics of turbojet, turbofan, turboshaft, afterburning, and ramjet propulsion systems. Analysis and design of inlet, diffuser, combustor, compressor, turbine, nozzle. Component matching and off-design performance. Inlet distortion, nozzle-afterbody, and installation losses. Mission analysis. 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 Propulsion, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Generalized internal compressible and incompressible flows. Thermochemistry and heat transfer in rocket applications. Advanced topics in solid rocket motor performance and internal ballistics. Liquid rocket engine cycle analysis and turbopump design. Combustion of liquid and solid propellants. Hybrid rockets and thermal-nuclear engines. 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 Propulsion, Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Description of orientation, angular velocity and angular acceleration in terms of angles, Euler parameters and direction cosines. Forces and moments acting on space vehicles. Attitude stability of various types of satellites in circular and elliptic orbits. Gyroscopic devices, energy dissipation. 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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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Dynamics of continuous systems: rod, beam, frame, and plate structures. General structural principles: virtual work, Hamilton's principle, Lagrange's equation, and Ritz method for discrete approximations. Modal analysis: eigenanalysis, mode shapes, mode superposition, and complex modes. Nonlinear vibrations: phase plane, Poincare, bifurcation plots, and chaos. Stability of the motion: classification of problems, follower loads, aerodynamic loads, divergence, flutter, pulsating compression, and gyroscopic systems. 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 Dynamics & Control, AE Structures, Upper Division
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