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Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft and related topics. It is often called aeronautical engineering, particularly when referring solely to aircraft, and astronautical engineering, when referring to spacecraft.
Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles and supervise the manufacture of these products. Those who work with aircraft are called aeronautical engineers, and those working specifically with spacecraft are astronautical engineers. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.
Some of the elements of aerospace engineering are:
- Fluid Mechanics - the study of fluid flow around objects. Specifically Aerodynamics concerning the flow of air over bodies such as wings or through objects such as wind tunnels (see also lift and aeronautics).
- Dynamics and engineering mechanics - the study of movement, forces, moments in mechanical systems.
- Mathematics - as most subjects within aerospace engineering involve equations and mathematical manipulation and derivations, a solid and comprehensive study of mathematics is required to enable effective learning in the other modules.
- Electrotechnology - the study of electronics within engineering.
- Propulsion - the energy to move a vehicle through the air (or in outer space) is provided by internal combustion engines, jet engines and turbomachinery, or rockets (see also propeller and Spacecraft Propulsion).
- Control engineering - the study of mathematical modelling of systems and designing them in order that they behave in the desired way. As aircraft flight control systems are becoming increasingly complex, they can be studied as a separate module.
- Aircraft Structures - design of the physical configuration of the craft to withstand the forces encountered during flight. Aerospace engineering aims very much at keeping structures lightweight.
- Materials science - related to structures, aerospace engineering also studies the materials of which the aerospace structures are to be built. New materials with very specific properties are invented, or existing ones are modified to improve their performance.
- Aeroelasticity - the interaction of aerodynamic forces and structural flexibility, potentially causing flutter, divergence, etc.
- Avionics - specifically concerning the design and programming of any computer systems on board an aircraft or spacecraft and the simulation of systems. Navigation equipment may be the focus of this study.
- Risk and reliability - the study of risk and reliability assessment techniques and the mathematics involved in the quantitative methods.
- Noise control - the study of the mechanics of sound transfer. Required as noise levels are a massive consideration in the current aerospace industry.
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Midasjohn (John Lee Blackwell) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:39:33 -0000
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@AstroGeek_US You should hear them struggling to connect this to NASA, b/c his company worked in engineering, *possibly* aerospace.
heathermg (Heather Goss) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:03:19 -0000
@AstroGeek_US You should hear them struggling to connect this to NASA, b/c his company worked in engineering, *possibly* aerospace.
Thanks for the clarification RT @MegaNerdRuns: @kwidrick They are civil engineering/design not aerospace #orlando
kwidrick (Katy Widrick) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:05 -0000
Thanks for the clarification RT @MegaNerdRuns: @kwidrick They are civil engineering/design not aerospace #orlando
@kwidrick They are civil engineering/design not aerospace
MeganerdRuns (Megan M) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:49:18 -0000
@kwidrick They are civil engineering/design not aerospace
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ASTOS - The Aerospace Trajectory Optimization Software is a tool for solving launcher, reentry and orbit trajectory problems without any programming. ASTOS is a special aerospace model of GESOP, which solves optimization problems using SNOPT or SOCS.
DARcorporation - Airplane design, analysis drafting Software. Also offers consultancy and testing services. List of references and clients. FAQ and evaluation programs.
Diversified International Sciences Corporation - Specializing in Air Traffic Control (ATC) Services, Information Technology Services and the Atom System. Provides systems, services and consulting expertise.
Flight Dynamics and Control Toolbox - Matlab/Simulink toolbox for flight simulation, flight dynamics research, and flight control system design. Free downloads of the toolbox and user-manual, including extensive background information.
Meta Description: [ An open-source Matlab/Simulink toolbox for flight simulation, aircraft dynamics analysis and flight control system design. Includes a detailed simulation model of the Beaver aircraft and autopilot, plus documentation. ]
Flight Gear Flight Simulator - Open Source flight simulator. Source code is available here, and it can run on Windows, Linux, Mac platforms.
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FlightGear Flight Simulator - An open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. The goal of the project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments.
Hanley Innovations - Aerodynamics and Airfoil Analysis Software for Windows. Test airfoils, eBooks about aerodynamics, plot airfoil sections for airplane constructions.
Meta Description: [ CFD Software, Aerodynamics Conceptual Design and Analysis Software
for airplane wings, propellers, rudders, keels, hydrofoils, turbines and other aerodynamics surfaces. ]
High Plains Engineering - Offers tools for flight control system design and flight test simulators, handling qualities, aircraft dynamics, data analysis and tests.
International Aerospace - Supplies software tools and training for the space, intelligence and military communities.
JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model - A free, open source, multi-platform flight dynamics model written in C++. New aircraft models do not require additional code.
Meta Description: [ JSBSim Home Page, Open Source C++ Flight Dynamics Model for FlightGear ]
NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), v 2.0 - Search NASA technical report database. Many reports available online as PDF files.
Public Domain Aerospace Software - Software for the Aerospace Engineer. Site has free sample downloads. CD for sale containing many useful programs, including Digital DATCOM.
Meta Description: [ Valuable computer programs for
aeronautical engineering.
Many programs originally from NASA or USAF.
All complete with public domain source code, instructions and sample cases
on CD-ROM. New release (version 12.0) available now. $295. ]
RocFlight Rocket Trajectory Software - Windows based, planar rocket trajectory software for launch vehicles traveling through the standard earth atmospheric model. Includes a database of common high power/model rocket motors, an optimal mass calculation feature, and custom graphing capabilities
Meta Description: [ Windows based, planar rocket trajectory software for launch vehicles traveling through the standard earth atmospheric model. Includes a database of common high power/model rocket motors, an optimal mass calculation feature, and custom graphing capabilities. ]
Rotordynamics-Seal Research - Offers consulting in rotordynamics as well as seal and bearing analysis software for hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, foil, magnetic and rolling element bearings.
Meta Description: [ Rotordynamics-Seal Research offers consulting in rotordynamics as well as seal and bearing analysis software for hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, foil, magnetic and rolling element bearings. ]
Satellite Tool Kit - Analytical engine to calculate data and display multiple 2-D maps to visualize various time-dependent information for satellites and other space-related objects such as launch vehicles, missiles, and aircraft.
Meta Description: [ AGI provides COTS software to national security and space professionals for integrated analyses and visualization
of land, sea, air, and space assets. Application areas include battlespace management, geospatial intelligence, space operations, and missile defense. ]
Scientific Engineering Research - Offers programs for vibration analysis of non-linear rotor-bearing-foundation systems. By linearization in the vicinity of a stable equilibrium position or by direct solution of the non-linear differential equations of motion in the time domain. Detailed description of programes and services offered.
Supersonic wing simulator - A Java Applet that simulates the supersonic flow over a wing. To explore the quasi two-dimensional calculation of the supersonic flow over a wedge-shaped infinity-span wing.
Meta Description: [ Supersonic flow over the Wing ]
Synaps - Offers a graphical analysis automation and numerical optimization framework. Allows engineers to couple their analysis codes without programming.
Meta Description: [ Synaps, Inc. and its Epogy and Pointer software provide process integration ]
Xpatch - High-frequency radar signature analysis and prediction software.
Meta Description: [ Xpatch 4.6 is the premier electromagnetic (EM) code suite for predicting and analyzing high-frequency radar signatures. ]
Zona Technology - Advanced aeroelastic, aeroservoelastic, flutter and flight loads software products.
Meta Description: [ Table of Contents for ZONA Technology, Inc.'s Web Site -
features information about aeroelasticity, aeroservoelasticity, flutter analysis, unsteady / steady aerodynamics, flight loads and other structural and aeroelastic applications. ]
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