Teaching

Courses Taught

AE8108 Aircraft Turbine Engines (Graduate)

This course is a graduate-level introduction to the analysis and design of aircraft propulsion. This course describes the working principles and major components of aircraft propulsion systems; diffusers, compressors, combustion chambers, turbines, and nozzles. Operation, design, and installation of gas turbine engines are studied. Emphasis is on air-breathing engines for civil and military aircraft, both subsonic and supersonic.

This course reviews select topics in aerodynamics and thermodynamics relevant to jet engines. Performance and one-dimensional parametric cycle analysis of different air-breathing engines are introduced. Environmental impact of aircraft powerplants and advances in fuel technologies are discussed. The design and construction of major engine components are studied as well.

AER710 Aerospace Propulsion (Undergraduate)

This course is a undergraduate-level introduction to the analysis and design of aircraft propulsion. This course describes the working principles and major components of aircraft propulsion systems; diffusers, compressors, combustion chambers, turbines, and nozzles. Operation, design, and installation of gas turbine engines are studied. An introduction to rocket propulsion is included. Advanced propulsion techniques for space applications are discussed.

AER309 Basic Thermodynamics (Undergraduate)

Introductory concepts and definitions: Thermodynamic systems, fluid properties. Energy, work, heat, power. First law. Cycles. Properties of a pure, simple compressible substance: substances that appear in different phases, ideal gas model. Control volume analysis: conservation of mass and energy. Second law: irreversible and reversible processes, Carnot cycle. Entropy: Clausius inequality, entropy change, entropy balance for closed and open systems, isentropic processes and efficiencies. Gas power systems; Air Standard ,Otto, Diesel, Dual and Brayton cycles.