Course Objective:
- Knowledge to the students about the process & techniques of aerospace system design, meeting the specified design requirements
- They will also learn about carrying structural and aerodynamic analysis, performance evaluation of aircraft and stability analysis
- Understand the concept of missile system and its design requirements and process.
- Design an aerospace vehicle and articulate its benefits in written and verbal forms.
- Understand the methods for aero-elastic analysis, computational fluid analysis and advances in aero-dynamics.
- Understand the air to air, ground to air, air to ground weapon system, UAV mounted GW and UCAVs.
- Introduction (aero-elastic phenomena and design requirements), Introduction to missiles & systems, Design process.
- Structural requirement, Structural and aerodynamic stiffness, Static aero-elasticity: torsional divergence, Structural vibration and modal analysis.
- Aerodynamic loads on an oscillating lifting surface, Characteristics of flutter and important design parameters, Methods for aero-elastic analysis, Computational fluid dynamics, advances in aero dynamics (Hypersonic Flows and Aerodynamic Heating).
- Aircraft performance (cruising, climb, descent, takeoff, landing, maneuver, flight path)
- System’s stability & control, aerodynamics control, Introduction to dynamic stability, first and second order responses, Equations of motion and modal characteristics.
- Introduction to air to air, ground to air, air to ground weapon systems, UAV mounted GW and UCAVs
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