AERO 351: Aerothermodynamics and Propulsion
Aerothermodynamics of gases; laws of thermodynamics; equilibrium conditions; mixtures of gases; combustion and thermochemistry; compressible internal flows with friction, heat transfer, and shock; turbojet cycle analysis and performance; chemical rockets.
AERO 417: Aerospace Propulsion
Air-breathing propulsion; design and analysis of inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, and nozzles; application to aeronautical and ground transportation.
AERO 615: Computational Fluid Dynamics for Aerospace Applications
Present methods for solving internal and external flow problems for inviscid and viscous compressible flow; Euler, Navier–Stokes, and Large Eddy Simulation solvers; formulation of boundary conditions; introduction to domain decomposition and basics of parallel processing.
AERO 620: Unsteady Aerodynamics
Analytical and numerical methods for predicting unsteady flows on airfoils, wings, and turbomachinery cascades. Small disturbance linearization of the full potential equations. Vortex dynamics and impulse methods: unsteady vortex motion, Kelvin impulse, added mass/apparent mass concepts. Two-dimensional thin airfoil theory: Theodorsen and Wagner functions, indicial response, and gust response. Time-domain and frequency-domain methods. Three-dimensional unsteady wing/panel/lifting-surface methods. Reduced-order modeling using proper orthogonal decomposition.