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| Welcome to the Department of Aerospace Engineering.
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| Aerospace Engineering deals specifically with aircraft and spacecraft, as well as any other types of machines that can fly. Topics within aerospace engineering include, but are not limited to, aerodynamics, structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, propulsion, and control systems. These topics can be applied to missiles, space structures, satellites, and all aspects related to atmosphere and space flight. | | * [[Aerospace engineering research]] |
| | * [[Aerospace structures and materials]] |
| | * [[About scram jets]] |
| | * [http://wikademia.org/Special:Search?search=aerospace+engineering&fulltext=Search Search] |
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| Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the production of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.
| | == Readings == |
| == Areas of study == | | * [[About aerospace engineering]] |
| [[Image:F-l3 lift fan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|X-35B lift fan; the VTOL propulsion system is designed and manufactured by [[w:Rolls-Royce plc|Rolls-Royce plc]]]]
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| ===General Prerequisites===
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| * [[Basic Mathematics]] - differentials, integrals, basic mechanics, vector algebra, matrices and matrix manipulation, total derivative (for mass and momentum equations, among others) | |
| ** [[wikibooks:Calculus | Calculus]]
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| ** [[wikibooks:Differential Equations | Differential Equations]]
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| * [[Thermodynamics]]/Heat Transfer - Zereoth, First, Second and Third [[laws of thermodynamics|Laws]], [[Enthalpy]], [[Entropy]], Clausius Inequality and ??, Steady State Equation, Modelling Gas Turbines/Engines, [[Conduction]], [[Convection]], [[Radiation]] ([[Black Body]], Grey Body)
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| ** [[wikibooks:Engineering Thermodynamics | Engineering Thermodynamics]]
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| * Circuits/Electronics
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| * Physics - Forces, Gravity Equation
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| ** [[wikibooks:Physics Study Guide/Gravity | Gravity]]
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| === Statics === | | ==External links== |
| * [[Structural analysis]] | | * December 2008 ''[http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/December/22-28/dec2508-Futuristic-flying-bike-video/?&R=EPI-105247 Futuristic flying bike video ] |
| * [[Mechanics]] - Friction on a surface, Rolling bodies, Stability, Pure/Damped/Forced Harmonic Motion, Orbits (reaching orbit, geostationary point, changing orbit, escape velocity)
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| ** [[wikibooks:Solid mechanics | Solid Mechanics Wikibook]]
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| === Fluid mechanics ===
| | [[Category:Aerospace engineering|Aerospace engineering]] |
| * Aerodynamics - Derivation of [[shear stress]] on a fluid, [[perfect gas equation]], [[Bernoulli equation]], [[Langrangian and Eulerian reference frames]], [[control volumes]] and control surfaces, [[Conservation of mass]] up to 3-d, [[balance of momentum equations]] up to 3-d, [[Aerofoils]], [[Circulation]], [[Mach Number]] & [[Reynolds Number]], [[Laminar flow|laminar]] and [[turbulent flow]], [[Propulsion]] & [[Turbomachinery]]
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| ** [[wikibooks:Jet Propulsion/Aerodynamics | Aerodynamics]]
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| ** [[wikibooks:Jet Propulsion | Jet Propulsion]]
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| ** [[wikibooks:Rocket Propulsion:Contents | Rocket Propulsion]]
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| ===Aircraft Structures===
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| * [[Basic strength of materials]]
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| * [[Basic aircraft structures]]
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| * [[Advanced aircraft structures]]
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| * [[Structural analysis]]
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| * Recent Topics
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| === Materials Science ===
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| * [[Material classes]] - Metals, Ceramics, Composites, Polymers, Ionic and Covalents
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| * [[Material microstructure]]
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| * [[Properties of materials]] - Strength, Stiffness, Young's Modulus, Elasiticity and Modulus of Elasticity, Hardness, Toughness, Electrical Properties?
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| * [[Materials selection]]
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| * [[Material processes]] - Annealing, Quenching, Precipitation Hardening, Case Hardening
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| * [[Failure]] - Fatigue, Creep, Fracture, Case studies (aircraft)
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| * [[Composites]] - matrix and fibers, explanation of directional properties, case studies (carbon fibre, kevlar, fibreglass)
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| ** [[wikibooks:Material science | Material Science Wikibook]]
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| === Aircraft Design ===
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| * Basic Aircraft Performance - Air density at altitudes, Perfect Gas equation,
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| * Dynamics and Control - Control Surfaces,
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| === Aviation engines ===
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| *Hydraulic gas dynamics - characteristics of gas flowing through
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| *[[Theory of impeler machines]] - profiling blades of compressor and turbine, multi-stage compressor and multi-stage turbine
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| *Theory of jet engines - modelling turbojet engines
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| *Construction of jet engines
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| === Computational Fluid Dynamics ===
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| [[Image:Dn8310-2_700.jpg|300px|right|thumb|‘Blended wing’ craft prototype]]
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| *Introduction
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| *Principles
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| *Solver Types
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| *Grid Generation
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| === Aeroelasticity ===
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| *Introduction
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| *Static Aeroelasticity
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| *Dynamic Aeroelasticity
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| *Flight Testing
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| === Rover Design ===
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| *[[Rover Mission Analysis and Design]]
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| ==Department news==
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| The Aerospace Department is concerned with the technology that constitutes of Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering.
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| ==Topics==
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| * [[Topic:Fluid mechanics]]
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| * [[Topic:Aerodynamics]]
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| * [[Topic:Aeronautics]]
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| * [[Topic:Astrodynamics]]
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| * [[Topic:Orbital mechanics]]
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| * [[Topic:Statics]]
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| * [[Topic:Engineering mechanics]]
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| * [[School:Mathematics]]
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| * [[Topic:Electrotechnology]]
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| * [[Topic:Turbomachinery]]
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| * [[Topic:Control engineering]]
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| * [[Topic:Aircraft flight control systems]]
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| * [[Topic:Aircraft structures]]
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| * [[Topic:Materials science]]
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| * [[Topic:Solid mechanics]]
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| * [[Topic:Aeroelasticity]]
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| * [[Topic:Avionics]]
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| * [[Topic:Reliability engineering]]
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| * [[Topic:Noise control]]
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| * [[Topic:Flight testing]]
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pav_home.php Personal Air Vehicle Page at Cafe Foundation (in affiliation with NASA)]
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| * [http://psas.pdx.edu/ Open avionics]
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| * [http://aerospace.me/ Aerospace Engineering - Students]
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| * [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/130398_electplane11.html Boeing's electric plane using fuelcells.]
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| * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/openavionics/ OpenAvionics]
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| * [http://www.aiaa.org/ American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]
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| * [http://aero.stanford.edu/adgprojects.html Projects at Standford's Aerodynamics Design Group]
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| * [http://dthrocket.blogspot.com/ A Project to create a supersonic homebrew rocket]
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| ===Books===
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| * [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1428996389&id=mViQar7gcfkC&dq=nanotechnology&as_brr=1 Research opportunities in advanced aerospace concepts]
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| *[[Wikibooks:Astrodynamics|Astrodynamics]]
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| ===Videos===
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| *[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A481C3DD60812502 MIT 16.01 Unified Engineering - Video Lecture]
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| *[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=35721A60B7B57386 MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering - Video Lecture]
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| ===Related news===
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| * (2008) [http://www.physorg.com/news127060603.html 'Avoiding wind tunnels, computer simulations pave way for hypersonic flight']
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| * '''April 26, 2007''' - [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200-take-a-leap-into-hyperspace.html Paper on hyperdrive system wins award at conference and is examined by US Government researchers...][http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/06/hyperdrive/]
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| * '''March 27, 2007''' - [http://www.physorg.com/news94233194.html NASA seeks research proposals.]
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| * '''March 20, 2007''' - [http://www.physorg.com/news93631842.html Private company to launch rocket.]
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