A finite element model showing the temperature distribution of a turbine blade with cooling air channels, adapted from
Project 3. (Image courtesy of MIT OCW.)
This course serves as an introduction to computational techniques arising in aerospace engineering. Applications are drawn from aerospace structures, aerodynamics, dynamics and control, and aerospace systems. Techniques include: numerical integration of systems of ordinary differential equations; finite-difference, finite-volume, and finite-element discretization of partial differential equations; numerical linear algebra; eigenvalue problems; and optimization with constraints.
Technical Requirements
MATLAB® software is required to run the .m and .mat files found on this course site.
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