Introduction Spacecraft Thermal Control: need of spacecraft thermal control – temperature specification – energy balance in a spacecraft – modes of heat transfer – factors that influence energy balance in a spacecraft – principles of spacecraft thermal control.

Properties of materials: strength, hardness, fatigue, and creep – Ferrous alloys: stainless steels, maraging steel, aging treatments – Aluminum alloys: alloy designation and tempers, Al-Cu alloys, principles of age hardening, hardening mechanisms, Al-Li alloys, Al-Mg alloys, nanocrystalline aluminum alloys – Titanium alloys: α-β alloys, superplasticity, structural titanium alloys, intermetallics – Magnesium alloys: Mg-Al and Mg-Al-Zn alloys – Superalloys: processing and properties of superalloys, single-crystal superalloys, environmental degradation and protective coatings – Composites: met

Introduction to Turbomachines. Dimensional Analyses and Performance Laws.

Precision Engineering: concepts, materials, processes – high speed machining; CNC machine tools and machining centres, adaptive systems, multi axis CNC programming – micro/nano scale manufacturing – recent development in nontraditional machining.

Introduction to Turbomachines. Dimensional Analyses and Performance Laws.

Axial Flow Compressors and Fans: Introduction – aero-thermodynamics of flow through an axial flow compressor stage – losses in axial flow compressor stage – losses and blade performance estimation, radial equilibrium equation – design of compressor blades – 2-D blade section design, axial compressor characteristics – multi-staging of compressor characteristics – high Mach number compressor stages – stall and surge phenomenon – low speed ducted fans.

Refrigeration: introduction – analysis of VCR cycles – multistage, multi-evaporator, cascade systems – properties and selection of pure and mixed refrigerants – properties of binary mixtures – analysis of vapor absorption cycles – aqua ammonia and LiBr water cycles – air cycle refrigeration, vortex tube, thermoelectric refrigeration.

Launch vehicle ascent trajectory design – reentry trajectory design – low thrust trajectory design – satellite constellation design – rendezvous mission design – ballistic lunar and interplanetary trajectory design – basics of optimal control theory – mission design elements for various missions – space flight trajectory optimization – direct and indirect optimization techniques – restricted 3-body problem – Lagrangian points – mission design to Lagrangian point.

Overview of industrial manipulators and field robots – robot mechanisms: serial chains, regional and orientational mechanisms, parallel chains, reachable and dexterous workspace, mechanisms of wheeled and walking robots – spatial displacements, rotation matrices, Euler angles, homogenous transformation, DH parameters, forward and inverse problems for serial and parallel manipulators – task planning joint space and task-space planning – sensors: joint displacement sensors, force sensors, range finders, vision sensors – actuators, electric motors: stepper, PMDC and brushless DC motors, pneuma

Derivation of basic equations for viscous fluid flow, including heat conduction and compressibility – exact solutions.

Laminar boundary layer approximations – similar and non-similar boundary layers – momentum integral methods – separation of boundary layer – compressible boundary layer equations – recovery factor – Reynolds analogy – similar solutions.

Introduction to transition of laminar boundary layers.

Turbulent flows – phenomenological theories – Reynolds stress – turbulent boundary layer – momentum integral methods – turbulent free shear layer.

Introductory aspects of non-renewable and renewable energy sources – fundamentals of thermal radiation – resource assessment – solar radiation concepts – solar-earth geometry – models to predict global and daily and hourly irradiation.

Solar collection theory and technologies (non-concentrating): heat transfer in solar collectors – basic modeling aspects – steady and dynamic analysis – performance parameters.