Aeronautical Concentration (15 credits)

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

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite (Undergraduate): (MECH 412 or MECH 419), MECH 533
• Prerequisite (Graduate): MECH 533

• Terms
  • Winter 2020
• Instructors
  • Jovan Nedic

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

• Terms
  • Fall 2019
• Instructors
  • Sivakumaran Nadarajah

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

• (3-0-6)
• Corequisites: MECH 430
• Prerequisite: MECH 331.

• Terms
  • Fall 2019
• Instructors
  • Wagdi George Habashi

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.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • Pascal Hubert

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 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year

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 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year

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

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 533.

• Terms
  • Winter 2020
• Instructors
  • Sivakumaran Nadarajah

Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to systems-oriented engineering design optimization. Emphasis on i) understanding and representing engineering systems and their structure, ii) obtaining, developing, and managing adequate computational (physics- and data-based) models for their analysis, iii) constructing appropriate design models for their synthesis, and iv) applying suitable algorithms for their numerical optimization while accounting for systems integration issues. Advanced topics such as coordination of distributed problems and non-deterministic design optimization methods.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-0-6)

• Terms
  • Fall 2019
• Instructors
  • Michael Kokkolaras

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

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 240, MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 331, MECH 341, MECH 346 or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year

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

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: MECH 315 or MECH 419 or equivalent.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year

Mechanical Engineering: Fundamentals of turbomachines from the standpoint of structural dynamics and vibration analysis, with preference given to aerospace applications involving aircraft and helicopter engines. Topics include: introduction to the finite element method, aircraft/helicopter engines architecture and main components, general equations of motion in rotordynamics, advanced modal analysis, Campbell diagrams and critical rotational velocity, mistuning and cyclic symmetry, fluid-structure coupling, flutter analysis, high-cycle fatigue.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite(s): MECH 321 and MECH 412 or MECH 419

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year

Mechanical Engineering: A comprehensive introduction to important algorithms in sensitivity analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization of large systems. Topics include: unconstrained and constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis, gradient-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, and various multidisciplinary algorithms and approaches for design optimization.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite(s): MECH 309 or MATH 317.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2019 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2019 academic year