"This undergraduate class is designed to introduce students to the physics that …
"This undergraduate class is designed to introduce students to the physics that govern the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere. The focus of the course is on the processes that control the climate of the planet.AcknowledgmentsProf. Ferrari wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. John Marshall."
This first part of the course Introduction to Aerospace Engineering presents an …
This first part of the course Introduction to Aerospace Engineering presents an overall picture of the aeronautics domain. This overview involves a number of different perspectives on the aerospace domain, and shows some basic principles of the most important concepts for flight. Then the basic aerodynamics are covered, followed by flight mechanics.Study GoalsHave an overview of the history of flightApply basic/constitutive principles of mechanics of fluids - a.o. Bernoulli.Apply control volume approachesExplain flow regimes (viscous/non-viscous; compressible/incompressible aerodynamics) and to estimate viscous and thermal effects Compute lift/drag of simple configurationsDescribe reference frames and derive general equations of motion for flight and orbital mechanicsApply equations of motion to determine aircraft performance in steady gliding, horizontal and climbing flightDerive aircraft performance diagram and flight envelope, in relation to aircraft morphology, lift-drag polar and engine performance
This is an open-source graduate level textbook covering the fundamentals of incompressible …
This is an open-source graduate level textbook covering the fundamentals of incompressible fluid flow. The topics cover the derivation of conservation mass, momentum, and energy equations, kinematics of fluid motion, non-dimensionalization and order-of-magnitude analysis, Stokes flows, potential flows, and boundary layers. The textbook was developed for a graduate level course at the Colorado School of Mines Department of Mechanical Engineering. We try to build from the typical math proficiency of incoming grad students, many of whom have never taken a course in PDEs, and may not be comfortable with vector operations such as the gradient, divergence, and Laplacian. Please feel free to contact Nils Tilton at ntilton@mines for any suggested revisions. We can share the latex files as well if you wish to modify the textbook for your own purposes.
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