MECH-4671

Course Description

Analysis of aircraft configurations. Viscous and compressibility effects. Manoeuvering loads and load factors; implications of maneuverability on thrust requirements. Aircraft stability and control.

Class and lab information

• Lecture: 3 hours/week

• Laboratory or tutorial: 1.5 hours/week

• Additional, approximate study hours: 5 hours/week, as student requires

• Estimated division of Learning hours

  • hands-on labs and activities: N/A

  • group work: N/A

  • lecture: 20%

  • individual work (including homework, project, and tutorials): 55%

  • class discussion (during lecture time): 25%

• Credit weight: 3.0

• Course format: face-to-face content summaries, examples, and questions with online and textbook-based readings, videos, tutorials, etc.

• Pre-requisites

  • MECH-3220, MECH-3670, and Semester 7 or higher standing

Resources

• Course Blackboard site: available via student Blackboard login

• Course Whiteboard site

• Interactive in-class activities via tools discussed at the beginning of the course.

  • There should be no costs to students for using these interactive tools.

• Primary text

  • Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 6th Ed. By John D. Anderson, Jr. (Mc Graw Hill Connect Portal, see registration instructions )

• Additional resources

  • Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics, by Mark Drela (MIT Press). Available to order as a physical or e-book. This book is optional but the first and last thirds of the course will draw on it so it may be of use.

• Web resources

  • MIT Open CourseWare, specifically:

    • Unified Engineering, 16.01-04 (Fluid Mechanics)

    • Aerodynamics, 16.110

    • Aircraft Stability and Control, 16.333

  • NASA Principles of Flight: Axes/Control Surfaces

• Software

  • Athena Lattice Vortex (AVL) by Mark Drela

  • XFoil by Mark Drela

  • Aero Console by Afshin Rahimi on GitHub