Introduction – materials deformation and fracture phenomena – strength of materials: flaws, defects, and a perfect material, brittle vs ductile material behavior – the need for atomistic simulations – basic atomistic modeling – classical molecular dynamics – interatomic potential, numerical implementation – visualisation – atomistic elasticity – the virial stress and strain – multiscale modeling and simulation methods – deformation and dynamical failure of brittle and ductile materials – applications.

General features and applications of high temperature flows – equilibrium kinetic theory: Maxwellian distribution, collision rates and mean free path – chemical thermodynamics – mixture of perfect gases, law of mass action – statistical mechanics: enumeration of micro-states, energy distribution, contribution of internal structure – equilibrium flow: ideal dissociating gas, equilibrium shock wave relations, nozzle flows – vibrational and chemical rate processes – flows with vibrational and chemical non-equilibrium.

Introduction – linear programming – duality and sensitivity analysis – transportation and assignment problems – goal programming – integer programming – network optimization models – dynamic programming – theory of games – queuing theory – simulation – nontraditional optimization algorithms.

Basics of acoustics – general theory of aerodynamic sound – flow and acoustic interactions – feedback phenomenon – supersonic jet noise – sonic boom – noise radiation from rotors and fans – aeroacoustic measurements.

Introduction to Hypersonic Flows – Inviscid Hypersonic Flow: Newtonian flow, Mach number independence, Hypersonic similarity, Blast wave theory, Hypersonic small disturbance theory, Stagnation region flow – Viscous Hypersonic Flow: Similarity parameters, Self-similar solutions, Hypersonic turbulent boundary layer, Reference temperature method, Stagnation region flow field, Viscous interactions – Real Gas effects: Inviscid equilibrium and non-equilibrium flows, Viscous high temperature flows – Experimental facilities – Hypersonic design considerations.

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.