Structural components of aircraft, loads and material selection – introduction to Kirchhoff’s theory of thin plates: bending and buckling of thin plates – unsymmetric bending of beams – bending of open and closed thin walled beams: shear of and torsion of thin walled beams – combined open and closed section beams – structural idealization – introduction to composite materials.
Introduction to combustion and flames – introduction to air breathing propulsion systems – engine thrust and performance parameters – aircraft engine types – ideal and real gas turbine cycle analysis – performance measures – engine-aircraft matching – aerothermodynamics of inlets, nozzles, combustion chambers and after burners – basics of turbomachinery – compressor and turbine blade flow path analysis (axial and centrifugal types) – engine component matching and off-design analysis – ram jets – hypersonic air-breathing engines.
Exercises to study the fundamental aspects of machining operations applied in typical engineer- ing/aerospace applications.
Practices in traditional metal cutting operations – CNC simulation training – CNC machine tool exercises – grinding exercises and related analysis – exercises in non-traditional machining.
Metal forming practice: welding exercises and metallurgical analysis/ NDT of weld joints.Understanding the basics of cutting force/ cutting temperature measurement – flexible manufacturing system – machining centre and additive manufacturing.
Overview of aerodynamics, propulsion, atmosphere and aircraft instrumentation – aircraft performance: gliding, cruise and climbing flight, optimal cruise trajectories, take-off and landing, V-n diagrams – stability and control: static longitudinal, directional and lateral stability and control, stick fixed and stick free stability, hinge moments, trim-tabs, aerodynamic balancing – effect of manoeuvres – stability control and performance characteristics of sounding rockets and launch vehicles.
Governing equations – quasi-one-dimensional flows – acoustic waves and waves of finite ampli- tude – normal shocks – R-H equations – shock tube problem – oblique shocks – Prandtl-Meyer expansion – wave drag – reflection and interaction of waves – conical flows – flows with friction and heat transfer – linearized potential flow and its applications – transonic flows.
Introduction to heat transfer – steady state heat conduction – transient heat conduction – introduc- tion to convective heat transfer – external forced convection – internal forced convection – natural/ free convection – introduction to boiling and condensation – heat exchangers – blackbody radiation and radiative properties – radiative exchange between surfaces.
Integral Transforms: The Fourier transform pair – algebraic properties of Fourier transform – con- volution, modulation, and translation – transforms of derivatives and derivatives of transform – inversion theory. Laplace transforms of elementary functions – inverse Laplace transforms – linearity property – first and second shifting theorem – Laplace transforms of derivatives and in- tegrals – Laplace transform of Dirac delta function – applications of Laplace transform in solving ordinary differential equations.
Fluid properties – fluid statics – integral control volume formulation – applications of Bernoulli equation – fluid kinematics – differential formulation, continuity and momentum equations – exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation– dimensional analysis – pipe flow – potential flow – boundary layer theory.
Concepts of stress, strain – torsion – axial force, shear, and bending moment – pure bending – shear stress in beams – transformation of stresses and strains – deflection of beams columns; Euler loads, beam-columns, eccentrically loaded columns – energy methods, virtual displacement method, virtual force method.
Introduction to applications – basic concepts and definitions – thermodynamic properties of pure substances – saturated and other states– work and heat, definition and applications – first law, internal energy and enthalpy, applications to non-flow and flow systems – second law, corollaries, Clasius inequality, entropy – availability, irreversibility and exergy – thermodynamic cycles – basics of gas-vapor mixtures and reacting systems – thermodynamic relations – combustion thermodynamics, stoichiometry, first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics applied to combustion.
Time complexity analysis. Big-Oh, Big-Omega, and Big-Theta notations.
Data Types, ADTs, Various types of ADTs such as List, Set Ques, circular queue, trees, graphs etc. 2-3 tree, red-black trees, binary trees, search trees, n-ary trees.
Graph traversals, searching on graph, BFS, DFS, Spanning Tree, Minimum Spanning Tree, paths, shortest paths, TSP.
Data structures for maintaining ranges, intervals and disjoint sets with applications.
Binary heap, binomial and fibonacci heaps, skip lists, Hashing, universal hashing, integer sorting algorithms with analysis.
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