Minor Programme 2 Aerospace Analysis and Development

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Minor Programme 2Aerospace Analysis and
Development
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Akke Suiker

• Associate Professor and Acting Chair of
  Engineering Mechanics
• Lecturer of
• - Vibrations of Aerospace Structures (2nd
  year)
• - Statics (1st year)
• Supervisor of MSc and PhD projects
• - Strength and ductility of advanced metals
• - Microscale cracking in thermal barrier
  coating systems
• - Fracture and delamination in laminates
• Coordinator of minor 2

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RD aspects of Aerospace Engineering
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Objectives

• Get in touch with formal tools
• Methods
• Formulations
• Models
• Learn how to choose the proper tool
• Awake the skills required to develop new tools

Engineering
Innovation
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Courses

• Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
• Constitutive Modelling in Aerospace Engineering
• Aerospace Systems and Control Theory
• Modern Materials for Aerospace Applications
• Partial Differential Equations I
• Systems Engineering and Technical Management
  Techniques

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Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics

• Introduction to numerical methods
• Finite differences, finite volumes, finite
  elements

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Constitutive modelling in Aerospace Engineering

• Basic relations between force and deformation
• Failure of solids
• Viscous flows
• Turbulence

• Basic relations between force and deformation
• Failure of solids
• Viscous flows
• Turbulence
• Boundary layers

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Aerospace Systems and Control Theory

• Introduction to control theory
• Description of aerospace control systems
• Applications

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Modern Materials for Aerospace Applications

• Innovation in materials and material technology
• Active participation of students to define new
  developments
• Possible participation in Young Wild Ideas in
  Materials programme

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Partial Differential Equations I

• Solution methods for equations of physics
• Heat equation
• Wave equation
• Boundary conditions
• Insight into the mathematics of boundary value
  problems

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Systems engineering and Technical Management
Techniques

• Systems theory
• Engineering project management
• Risk assessment
• Indispensable for Design Synthesis Exercise

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Why would you choose Minor 2?

• Why did you choose Aerospace Engineering?
• Good in math and physics
• Social relevance
• Meaningful applications
• Interested in getting to know the driving
  processes?
• Interested in innovation rather than traditional
  design?

Then you should choose Minor 2