The Aeronautical Concentration is comprised of five (5) courses.
Required Courses (6 credits)
Two of the five are the Required courses from the list below:
MECH 532
Aircraft Perform,Stablty&Cntl
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Aircraft performance criteria such as range, endurance, rate of climb, maximum ceiling for steady and accelerated flight. Landing and take-off distances. Static and dynamic stability in the longitudinal (stick-fixed and stick-free) and coupled lateral and directional modes. Control response for all three modes.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 533
Subsonic Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Kinematics: equations of motion; vorticity and circulation, conformal mapping and flow round simple bodies. Two-dimensional flow round aerofoils. Three-dimensional flows; high and low aspect-ratio wings; airscrews. Wind tunnel interference. Similarity rules for subsonic irrotational flows.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
At least one course (3 credits) from the list below:
MECH 535
Turbomachinery and Propulsion
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to propulsion: turboprops, turbofans and turbojets. Review of thermodynamic cycles. Euler turbine equation. Velocity triangles. Axial-flow compressors and pumps. Centrifugal compressors and pumps. Axial-flow turbines. Loss mechanisms. Dimensional analysis of turbomachines. Performance maps. 3-D effects. Introduction to numerical methods in turbomachines. Prediction of performance of gas turbines.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 536
Aerospace Structures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Aircraft and spacecraft structural components and loads. Bending, shear, torsion and buckling of thin-walled open and closed sections. Structural idealization. Principle of stiffener / web construction. Trusses and isogrid structures. Wing spars and box beams. Fuselage frames and wing ribs. Analysis of riveted, bolted and
adhesive joints. Sandwich structures analysis. Thermoelasticity analysis for spacecraft structures.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 432.
Two courses from the list below (6 credits) or one of the two courses can be replaced from the list above (MECH-535 or MECH-536):
MECH 531
Course not available
MECH 537
High-Speed Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Equations of compressible flows. Planar and conical shock waves. Expansion and shock wave interference; shock tubes. Method of characteristics. Supersonic nozzle design. Aerofoil theory in high subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows. Conical flows. Yawed, delta and polygonal wings; rolling and pitching rotations. Wing-body systems. Elements of transonic flows.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Pre/Corequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 533
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year
MECH 538
Unsteady Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Fundamental equations of unsteady compressible flows in fixed or moving reference frames. Unsteady flows past bodies in translation and having oscillatory motions. Oscillations of cylindrical pipes or shells subjected to internal flows. Vortex theory of oscillating aerofoils in incompressible flows. Theodorsen's method. Unsteady compressible flow past oscillating aerofoils.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 533
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year
MECH 539
Computational Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Fundamental equations. Basic flow singularities. Boundary element methods. Source, doublet and vortex panel methods for 2D and 3D incompressible and compressible flows. Method of characteristics. Euler equations for inviscid rotational flows. Finite-difference and finite-volume methods. Explicit and implicit time-integration methods. Quasi 1D solutions. Nozzle and confined aerofoil applications.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year
MECH 565
Fluid Flow &Heat Trans. Equip
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Pipes and piping systems, pumps, and valves. Fans and building air distribution systems. Basic thermal design methods for fins and heat exchangers. Thermal design of shell-and-tube and compact heat exchangers.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 566
Fluid-Structure Interactions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Pipes and cylindrical shells containing flow: fundamentals and applications in ocean mining, Coriolis mass-flow meters, heat exchangers, nuclear reactors and aircraft engines; chaos. Cylinders in axial flow and in cross-flow; vortex-shedding and galloping. Cylinder arrays in cross-flow; fluidelastic instabilities. Ovalling of chimneys.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2018 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2018 academic year
Note: Students should see their Academic Advisor and complete the Request for Course Authorization form to add this concentration.