MECH&AE 150B · MAE 150BAerodynamics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Advanced aspects of potential flow theory. Incompressible flow around thin airfoils (lift and moment coefficients) and wings (lift, induced drag). Gas dynamics: oblique shocks, Prandtl/Meyer expansion. Linearized subsonic and supersonic flow around thin airfoils and wings. Wave drag. Transonic flow.
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Requisites: courses 103, 150A.
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MECH&AE 150B
- MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MECH&AE 150AIntermediate Fluid Mechanics
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
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MECH&AE 150B
- MECH&AE 154SFlight Mechanics, Stability, and Control of Aircraft
- MECH&AE 154APreliminary Design of Aircraft
- MECH&AE 154BDesign of Aerospace Structures
- MECH&AE 250CCompressible Flows
- MECH&AE 250FHypersonic and High-Temperature Gas Dynamics
- MECH&AE 250DComputational Fluid Dynamics for Compressible Flows
- MECH&AE 252CFluid Mechanics of Combustion Systems
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.