Introduction to Aerospace Engineering/Flight

Week 1: Atmosphere and its properties

Week 2: Nomenclature of aircraft components

Week 3: Fluid Mechanics – I : Incompressible flow, Bernoulli’s Equation, Coanda Effect, and Mach No..

Week 4: Fluid Mechanics –II : Viscous Flow, Boundary Layer, Pressure Measurement

Week 5: Aerodynamics – I : Airfoils, and Lift Generation Theories

Week 6: Aerodynamics – II : Critical Mach no., Types of Drag

Week 7: Propulsion : Types of Aircraft Engines

Week 8: Aircraft Performance - I : Steady Level Flight and Altitude effects

Week 9: Aircraft Performance- II : Glide, Climb, Ceilings, Turn, and Pull up

Week 10: Aircraft Longitudinal Stability,and V-n Diagram

Week 11: Aircraft Performance- III : Takeoff and Landing, Range and Endurance, Range-Payload Diagram

Week 12: Flapping Wing Aerodynamics

1. Anderson, J. D., The Aeroplane, a History of its Technology, AIAA Education Series, 2002 

2. Eberhardt S, Anderson D., Understanding Flight. McGraw-Hill Publishing; 2009. 

3. Anderson, J. D., Introduction to Flight, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005 

4. Ojha S.K., Flight Performance of Aircraft, AIAA Education Series, 1995 Existing video clips of this course recorded by CDEEP in 2017 to be used with some editing.

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering. His areas of specialization include Aircraft Conceptual Design, Air Transportation, and Optimization. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, and PEC Chandigarh where he underwent his undergraduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3.5 years) and Nasik (1.5 years) Divisions. He has published and presented ~ 220 scientific papers, of which ~ 170 are in international journals and conferences. He has also visited several top ranking institutes and universities all over the world. Prof. Pant was a Visiting Professor at School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2015-16, visiting faculty at Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2010-11, and a visiting researcher at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. In November 2012, he was appointed as a Special Visiting Researcher under the Science Without Borders program of the Brazilian Government for three years

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