Missiles provide the essential accuracy and standoff range capabilities that are of paramount importance in modern warfare. Technologies for missile propulsion are rapidly emerging, resulting in the frequent introduction of new missile propulsion systems. The capability to meet essential requirements is often driven by missile propulsion.
This course provides a system-level, integrated approach for missile propulsion design, propulsion development, and propulsion system engineering. The methods presented are generally simple closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide insight into the primary driving parameters. Sizing examples are presented for rocket-powered, ramjet-powered, and turbo-jet powered baseline missiles. Typical values of missile propulsion parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems and technologies for missile propulsion and the current/projected state-of-the-art. Each student will design, build, and fly (DBF) a small air rocket in a DBF competition. Videos illustrate missile propulsion development activities and performance.
The instructor’s textbook Missile Design and System Engineering (Fleeman, AIAA, 2012) will be provided on-site as part of the course registration.
Synopsis:
This short course is based on the very successful graduate-level Weaponeering course developed by Professor Driels and taught at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, and has been given about 30 times at various customer locations. The course will give an overview of the fundamentals of the Weaponeering process and its application to air-to-surface and surface-to-surface engagements. The course explains the analytical basis of current weapon effectiveness tools known as the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEM) produced by the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME). The JMEM are used by all services to plan offensive missions, and allow the planners to predict the effectiveness of selected weapon systems against a variety of targets. The course provides an introduction to the effectiveness of such conventional weapons on a variety of ground targets.
Synopsis:
The objective of the course is to present an overview of the preliminary design of air breathing engine systems that is determined primarily by the aircraft mission, which defines the engine cycle – and different types of cycle are investigated. Preliminary design activities are defined and discussed in the context of the overall engine development process and placed in perspective. Some basic knowledge of aerodynamics and thermodynamics is assumed, so the mathematical material that appears in many good textbooks is minimized and the question “What do you actually do as an engine designer?” is addressed. The practical means and processes by which thermodynamic concepts are turned into hardware are covered and some design techniques are demonstrated. Finally, the fact that an air breathing engine is much more than the flowpath component is discussed and the future of engine design methods is raised. Class participation is encouraged throughout.
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The course covers all five aspects of flight dynamics and control in an integrated format – the equations of motion; aerodynamic modeling; steady-state analysis and control power; dynamic and modal analyses including modal approximations; and synthesis of stability-augmentation and autopilot control laws. The course contains a clear, rigorous, yet practical treatment of conventional topics dealing with rigid vehicles, while also extensively addressing the flight dynamics and control of elastic vehicles. Key topics include: the rigorous derivation of the equations of motion for rigid and flexible aircraft via Newton and Lagrange; a review/tutorial on lumped-mass vibrations including rigid-body degrees of freedom; modeling the effects of static and dynamic elastic deformation on the forces and moments; modal analysis of rigid and flexible vehicles; elastic effects on vehicle control (e.g., filtering, sensor and actuator placement); a case study on active structural mode control; plus other examples involving a flexible hypersonic vehicle and large flexible aircraft. The material on flexible vehicles is presented from a “flight-dynamics” rather than a “structural-dynamics” perspective.
The dynamics-based synthesis of stability-augmentation control laws is strongly connected to the natural modes, and specifically addresses the multi-input/multi-output character of the dynamic system. An integrated treatment of linear dynamic models is used throughout, including transfer functions, state-variable models, and polynomial-matrix representations. Typical autopilot control laws are synthesized using loop-shaping techniques, including discussions of typical sensors and gain scheduling. Finally, the student is briefly introduced to the classical “crossover” pilot model and its implications regarding flight control. MATLAB® and Simulink are used extensively in the many examples involving real aircraft.
Synopsis:
This course examines the computational issues that are unique to aeroacoustics. Course materials consist of three parts: (a) Introduction; (b) CAA Methods; and (c) Applications. The purpose of the introduction is to provide a brief review of the field of aeroacoustics, including current issues and problem areas (10% of the course). CAA methods form the main component of the course (70%). A number of applications are discussed to illustrate how CAA methods are used in realistic and practical problems (20%). CAA problems are, by definition, time dependent and usually contain high frequency components. Because of the nature of sound one would like to be able to compute CAA problems with as few number of mesh points per wavelength as possible. These characteristics of CAA problems are very different from fluid flow problems. Thus specially developed CAA methods are needed. The students are introduced to these methods.
Instructed by experts from the AIAA Pressure Gain Combustion Technical Committee
Instructed by Dr. Dianne DeTurris and Dr. Shannon Flummerfelt
- New fundamental course covers all of the most important and relevant topics in Complex Systems Engineering
- All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course
SYNOPSIS
This 1-day post-forum course is intended to introduce the concept of survivability to engineers, analysts, and program managers working in the aerospace industry. Students should get an introduction to the basic concepts of susceptibility and vulnerability and how these concepts affect aerospace design. Additionally, students will see examples of how the survivability design discipline is incorporated into modern military platforms to highlight the key attributes of survivability.
