ENAE 635 Helicopter Stability and Control (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 631 and ENAE 642 or permission of department. Advanced dynamics as required to model rotorcraft for flight dynamic studies. Development of helicopter simulation models and specifications of handling qualities. Methods for calculation of trim, poles, frequency response, and free flight response to pilot inputs. ENAE 644 Optimal Control of Aerospace Systems (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 432, ENAE 403 or ENAE 404, or equivalents. Formal optimization of linear and non-linear dynamic systems, developed rigorously via the calculus of variations - first and second variations. Treatment of dynamic constraints, terminal conditions, fixed and free final times. Numerical techniques to the non-linear optimization problem are stressed. Investigation of optimal aerodynamic shapes, trajectory optimization, optimal flight guidance. Final project includes numerical analysis. ENAE 653 Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Continua (3) Prerequisite: ENAE 652 or equivalent. Finite element formulation of nonlinear and time dependent processes. Introduction to tensors, nonlinear elasticity, plasticity and creep. Application to nonlinear solids including aerospace structures, such as shells undergoing finite rotations. ENAE 656 Aeroelasticity (3) Prerequisite: ENAE 655 or permission of department. Topics in aeroelasticity: wing divergence; aileron reversal; flexibility effects on aircraft stability derivatives; wing, empennage and aircraft flutter; panel flutter; aircraft gust response; and aeroservoelasticity of airplanes. ENAE 661 Advanced Propulsion I (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 455 and ENAE 457. Special problems of thermodynamics and dynamics of aircraft power plants; jet, rocket and ramjet engines. Plasma, ion and nuclear propulsion for space vehicles. ENAE 662 Advanced Propulsion II (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 455 and ENAE 457. Special problems of thermodynamics and dynamics of aircraft power plants; jet, rocket and ramjet engines. Plasma, ion and nuclear propulsion for space vehicles. ENAE 674 Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluids (3) Prerequisite: ENAE 471 or permission of department. One-dimensional flow of a perfect compressible fluid. Shock waves. Two-dimensional linearized theory of compressible flow. Two-dimensional transonic and hypersonic flows. Exact solutions of two-dimensional isotropic flow. Linearized theory of three-dimensional potential flow. Exact solution of axially symmetrical potential flow. One-dimensional flow with friction and heat addition. ENAE 681 Engineering Optimization (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Methods for unconstrained and constrained minimization of functions of several variables. Sensitivity analysis for systems of algebraic equations, eigenvalue problems, and systems of ordinary differential equations. Methods for transformation of an optimization problem into a sequence of approximate problems. Optimum design sensitivity analysis. ENAE 682 Hypersonic Aerodynamics (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Hypersonic shock and expansion waves, Newtonian theory, Mach methods, numerical solutions to hypersonic inviscid flows, hypersonic boundary layer theory, viscous interactions, numerical solutions to hypersonic viscous flows. Applications to hypersonic vehicles. ENAE 683 High Temperature Gas Dynamics (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Aspects of physical chemistry and statistical thermodynamics necessary for the analysis of high temperature flows, equilibrium and nonequilibrium chemically reacting flows, shock waves, nozzle flows, viscous chemically reacting flow, blunt body flows, chemically reacting boundary layers, elements of
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