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AIRCARFT STRUCTURAL MECHANICS CREDITS 4

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This course introduces the students to typical loads that act upon the
aerospace structures. It extends the concepts taught in solid mechanics. The
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main aim of this course is to furnish students with the knowledge of aircraft
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various loads acting on the aircraft and aerospace structures and prepare
them for a possible career as a structural engineer or a researcher.
 to find deflection of the truss using different methods
 to estimate the reaction forces and draw shear force as well as bending
moment diagrams for indeterminate beams using different methods
Course
 To determine the bending stresses in unsymmetrical sections using
Objective
different methods
 To compute crippling load of columns and rectangular shear panels
 To use various failure theories based on various materials
Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to
 Determine the deflection of the beams under complex loading
 Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams of indeterminate
beams numerically and using MATLAB code.
Course  Estimate the bending stress and draw the stress distribution of
Outcome unsymmetrical sections.
 Use Euler’s method and Rankine’s formula to compute crippling load of
columns with various end conditions
 Compute failure stress, allowable stress and safety factor for a material
using failure theories

Pre-requisites: SOLID MECHANICS

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1: Weakly related, 2: Moderately related and 3: Strongly related
MODULE 1: STATICALLY DETERMINATE STRUCTURES
(12L+6P)
Deflection of truss, frame and rings using unit load method.
Deflection of determinate beams under complex loading (elliptic,
parabolic and varying load)
Lab Experiments:
1. Deflection of plane truss using MATLAB CO-1
2. Deflection of space truss using MATLAB BTL-3
Software Required:
1. MATLAB
Suggested Readings:
Plane Truss and Space Truss

MODULE 2: STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURES

(12L+6P)
Shear force and bending moment of fixed-fixed beam, Propped
cantilever beam, Continuous beam, Clapeyron's Three Moment
Equation, Moment Distribution Method. Deflection of indeterminate
beams using energy method and unit load method.
Lab Experiments:
CO-2
3. Analysis of indeterminate beam using Clapeyron's theorem in
BTL-3
MATLAB
Software Required:
1. MATLAB
Suggested Readings:
Strain Energy, Supports and Reactions
MODULE 3: UNSYMMETRICAL BENDING
(12L+6P)
Bending stresses in beams of unsymmetrical sections, Bending of CO-3
symmetric sections with Skew loads, Principal axis method, Neutral BTL-3
 axis method, Generalized K method.
Lab Experiments:
4. Determination of Principal axis of Unsymmetrical beams.
Equipment Required:
1. Unsymmetrical beam setup
Suggested Readings:
Centroid, Moment of Inertia and Bending Moment Diagram
MODULE 4: BUCKLING OF COLUMNS AND PANELS
(12L+6P)
Columns with various end conditions, Euler's Column curve,
inelastic buckling, Rankine's formula, Bending of thin plates,
Rectangular sheets under compression, Local buckling stress of
thin walled sections, Crippling stresses by Needham's and Gerard's
methods. Thin-walled column strength. Sheet stiffener panels.
Effective sheet width, inter rivet and sheet wrinkling failures
Lab Experiments:
5. Column testing. CO-4
BTL-3
6. Buckling of stiffened sheet panel using ANSYS
Equipment / Software Required:
1. Column testing apparatus
2. ANSYS
Suggested Readings:
Failure in columns and panels subjected to compression
MODULE 5: FAILURE THEORIES
(12L+6P)
Failure theories – Maximum Principal Stress Theory, Maximum
Principal Strain Theory, Maximum Shear Stress Theory, Maximum
Strain Energy Theory, Maximum Shear Strain Energy Theory
Lab Experiments:
7. Beam Failure using ANSYS
Equipment / Software Required: CO-5
1. Column testing apparatus BTL-3
2. ANSYS
Suggested Readings:
Failure theories of ductile and brittle materials
TEXT BOOKS
1. Megson, T. H. G. “Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students”, Butterworth-
Heinemann, Sixth Edition, 2017.

2. Venkataraman, P., “Essential Mechanics-Statics and Strength of Materials

with MATLAB and Octave” Vol. 1, Five Cups of Copy Rochester, NY, 2020.

REFE REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Goodno, B. J., & Gere, J. M., “Mechanics of Materials”, Cl-Engineering, 9th
edition, 2020
2. Donaldson, B. K., “Analysis of Aircraft Structures: an Introduction”, Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
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ROCKET AND
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The students will learn the operational principles and

Course Description
performance of rocket, ramjet, and scramjet engines.
 1. To learn the principles and concepts of solid
propellant rocket motors.
2. To distinguish the operational features of liquid
propellant rocket engines.
3. To get acquainted with non-conventional
Course Objective
propulsion systems for outer space.
4. To calculate the ramjet engine performance
parameters.
5. To be familiar with the principles and operations
of scramjet engines and the challenges.
Upon completion of this course, the students will be
able to
1. Perform basic calculations of the solid propellant
rocket motors.
2. Estimate the performance parameters of liquid
rocket engines.
Course Outcome
3. Explain the working and design of non-
conventional propulsion systems.
4. Analyse the performance of the ramjet and the
working of each component.
5. Compare and explain the operation of scramjet
with that of ramjet
Prerequisites: Thermodynamics, Aircraft Propulsion
CO, PO AND PSO MAPPING
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3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 - 2 3

3 2 3 2 2 1 - 1 2 2 - 2 3

3 3 3 3 3 1 - 1 2 2 - 2 3
3 3 2 3 3 1 - 1 2 2 - 2 3
1: Weakly related, 2: Moderately related and 3: Strongly related
MODULE 1: CHEMICAL ROCKET PROPULSION (9L
+ 6P = 15)
Classification of rocket propulsion systems, Performance parameters,
Isentropic flow through nozzles, Nozzle considerations, Propellant
burning rate, Grain design and configuration, Propellant characteristics,
Combustion in a solid propellant rocket engine, Components of the
engine and rocket motor design, Numerical problems.
Suggested Readings: CO-1
Staging of rockets, Relation between throat area and exit area BTL-3
Lab Experiments
1. Propellant preparation and calorific value estimation of solid
propellant.
Software/Equipment Required
1. Bomb Calorimeter
MODULE 2: LIQUID PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINE
(9L + 6P = 15)
Fundamentals of liquid rocket engine - Propellant feed system, Gas
pressure feed system, Engine cycles, Tank pressurization, Liquid
propellants, Injectors, Combustion chamber and nozzle, Starting and
ignition, Variable thrust, Combustion, Hybrid rocket engine, Numerical
problems.
CO-2
Suggested Readings:
BTL-4
Liquid fuels, liquid oxidizers
Lab Experiments:
1. Determination of impinging angle of Laminar jet
Software/Equipment Required
1. Laminar jet injection system
MODULE 3: NON-CONVENTIONAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS
(8L)
Principles of electric propulsion, Thrusters – electrostatic,
electrothermal, electromagnetic - ion, hall thrusters. Nuclear Propulsion
– Principle of nuclear thermal propulsion, Nuclear thermal rocket CO-3
engine, Solar propulsion. BTL-3
Suggested Readings:
Nuclear fission process, the Ionization process
MODULE 4: RAMJET ENGINES
(9L + 6P = 15)
Performance parameters of a ramjet, Cycle analysis, Subcritical, critical
and supercritical operation of the inlet, Classification of the inlet,
Combustion in ramjet, Integrated rocket ramjet, Numerical problems.
Suggested Readings:
CO-4
Working of Brayton cycle, Isentropic relations
BTL-4
Lab Experiments
1. 2-D Simulation of flow through ramjet intakes.
Software/Equipment Required
Solidworks, ANSYS
MODULE 5: SCRAMJET
(7L)
Operating principle of the scramjet, Challenges in hypersonic
airbreathing propulsion, Comparison of performance with subsonic and
supersonic propulsion vehicles, Design issues in hypersonic vehicles,
Inlet design – isolator, shock train, types of the inlet, Combustor inlet
CO-5
interaction.
BTL-3
Suggested Readings:
Difference between subsonic and supersonic flow, Thermodynamic
relations for isentropic flow

TEXTBOOKS
1. El-Sayed, . (2017). A. F. Aircraft propulsion and gas turbine
engines. CRC press

2. Sutton, G. P., and Biblarz, O,“Rocket propulsion elements”. (2016).

John Wiley & Sons, Ninth Edition,

3. Farokhi, S, (2014) “Aircraft propulsion”, John Wiley & Sons,

Second Edition,

REFERENCE BOOKS
1 Oates, G. C. (1989) “Aircraft propulsion systems technology and
design”, AIAA,
 2 Heiser, W. H., Pratt, D. T., & Daley, D. H.. (1994) “Hypersonic
airbreathing propulsion”, AIAA,
3 Turner, M. J , (2008) “ Rocket and spacecraft propulsion: principles,
practice and new developments”,Springer Science & Business
Media,

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COURSE
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CREDITS 3
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Course This course deals with aspects of computationally solving various flow
Descripti problems applying different methods suitable for a given situation and also
on familiarizes the students to the commercial solvers.
1. To study the basics of numerical discretization and grid generation for flow
problems.
Course 2. To discretize the flow field using finite difference method.
Objectiv 3. To utilize the finite volume method for analyzing the flow field.
es 4. To apply the upwind and central schemes in finite volume method.
5. To explain the various turbulence models and employ the appropriate
model.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Differentiate the explicit and implicit formulations of the difference
Course equations.
2. Apply finite difference method to the solution of basic flow problems.
Outcom
3. Apply SIMPLE algorithm and its variants to analyze the flow field.
es 4. Utilize upwind and central schemes to solve the inviscid and viscous flows
in finite volume method.
5. Distinguish the appropriate turbulence model to analyze the flow.
Prerequisites: Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Methods
CO vs PO / PSO MAPPING
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1: Weakly related, 2: Moderately related, and 3: Strongly related
MODULE 1: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
(6L+ 6P = 12)

Mathematical properties of PDEs and flow equations ‐ Elliptic, Parabolic and BTL-3
General form of a conservation law. Governing equations of fluid dynamics, CO-1

Hyperbolic equations‐ Initial and Boundary conditions ‐ Well posed‐ ill Posed
problems; Discretization of partial differential equations; Finite difference, finite
element and finite volume methods. Derivation of finite difference quotients;
Basic aspects of finite difference equations; Explicit and implicit approaches.
Grid generation – Introduction, types of grids – structured, unstructured, single
and multi‐block grids, hybrid and adaptive grids.

Case study:
Finite difference method on non-uniform grid.
Lab Experiments:
Grid generation – 2D and 3D grid generation for simple geometries.
 Software Required
Ansys Fluent
MODULE 2: DISCRETIZATION TECHNIQUES
(10L+ 6P = 16)
Application of finite difference method to wave equation, heat equation, Laplace
equation and Burgers equation; Errors, consistency, convergence and stability;
The Von Neumann stability analysis. Time integration method for space
discretized equation; Analysis of time integration methods; Forward Euler,
Central time differencing and Backward Euler methods, Diffusion and
dispersion errors of space and time discretizations; Nonlinear system of ODEs
and their linearization; Multistep methods, Importance of artificial dissipation
with central schemes; Implicit schemes for multidimensional problems. CO-2
BTL-4
Case study:
ADI method for the convection equation
Lab Experiments:
Simulation of flow over airfoil at different angles of attack – subsonic and
supersonic flows
Software Required
Ansys Fluent
MODULE 3: FINITE VOLUME METHOD
(10L + 6P = 16)
Conservative discretization; Finite Volume Techniques ‐ Cell centered and cell
vertex formulations ‐ Lax-Wendroff time stepping, Runge‐Kutta time Stepping ‐
Multi‐stage time stepping; FDM ‐like finite volume techniques ‐ Central and up‐
wind type discretizations ‐ Finite volume estimation of gradients; Finite volume
method for convection - diffusion problems ; Pressure - Velocity coupling; ‐
SIMPLE algorithm SIMPLER and SIMPLEC algorithms; PISO algorithm. CO-3
Case study: BTL-4
Numerical solution of lid driven cavity.
Lab Experiments:
Analysis of heat transfer through a turbine blade.
Software/Equipment Required
Ansys Fluent
MODULE 4: APPLICATIONS TO INVISCID AND VISCOUS FLOWS
(9L+ 6P = 15)
Finite volume discretization of the Euler equations; Space discretization, time
integration and boundary conditions; Upwind schemes for the Euler equations;
Roe’s flux difference splitting; Application to the flow around a cylinder, Internal
flow in a channel with a circular bump and supersonic flow on a wedge.
Numerical solution of viscous laminar flows; Density based methods for viscous
flows; Discretization of viscous and thermal fluxes; Boundary conditions;
CO-4
Application to Couette thermal flow and flat plate.
Case study: BTL-4
Total variation diminishing schemes
Lab Experiments
Analysis of flow through convergent and CD nozzles.
Software Required
Ansys Fluent
MODULE 5: TURBULENCE MODELLING
(10L+ 6P = 16)
Turbulence – Physical description, Transition, Characteristics of turbulent flow,
Effect of turbulent fluctuations on mean flow; Reynolds averaging, Unsteady
RANS, Closure problem, Turbulence models classification – Eddy viscosity
models: algebraic mixing length model, one and two equation models – RNG
model, Realizable k-epsilon model, k-omega and SST models; Reynolds stress
models; Detached eddy simulation model; LES and DNS. CO-5
Case study: BTL-4
Different linear turbulence models for simulation of a vortex tube.
Lab Experiments:
3D simulation of flow past a cylinder using various turbulence models.
Software/Equipment Required
Ansys Fluent
TEXTBOOKS
John F. Wendt, “Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction”, A von
1.
Karman Institute Book, 3rd Edition, 2009
W. Versteeg and H. Malalasekara, “An Introduction to Computational Fluid
2
Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method”, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2010.
REFERENCE BOOKS
Charles Hirsch, “Numerical Computation of Internal and External
1. Flows, Vol. 1, Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics “,
Butterworth Heinemann, Second Edition, 2007.
Dale Anderson, John C. Tannehill, Richard H. Pletcher, Ramakanth
2. Munipalli, Vijaya Shankar, “Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat
Transfer“, 4th Edition, CRC Press, 2020.
EBOOKS
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anderson-john-tannehill-ramakanth-munipalli-vijaya-shankar
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