Aerodynamics (Option of Aerospace Dynamics MSc)

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Cranfield University

Comments about Aerodynamics (Option of Aerospace Dynamics MSc) - At the institution - Bedfordshire - England

• Objectives
  Suitable for ambitious graduates seeking a course with a significant element of choice and looking to work in the growing and challenging aerospace or related industries. Takes you on to excellent employment prospects. Recent graduates have found positions in the aerospace, automotive and related sectors. A significant number go on to do research and higher degrees. You will be taught by staff from the Aerospace Sciences Department. Teaching is supplemented by contributions from industry and other outside organisations which reinforce the applied nature of the modules.
• Entry requirements
  A 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree or equivalent in mathematics, physics or an engineering discipline. Applicants who do not fulfil the standard entry requirements can apply for the Pre-Master's Course in Engineering, successful completion of which will qualify them for entry to this course for a second year of study.
• Course description
  The Aerodynamics option is designed for students seeking a career in aerodynamic design, flow control, flow measurement or any sector in which an understanding of fluid flows plays a major role.
  
  The continuing search for aerodynamic refinement and performance optimisation for the next generation of aircraft and surface vehicle creates the need for specialist knowledge of fluid flow behaviour.
  
  Environmental issues will ensure that aerodynamic refinement will dominate the next generation of civil transport aircraft, placing even greater emphasis on flight control and flight dynamic aspects.
  
  In the military arena Cranfield has unparalleled experience in the design and development of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). This has drawn heavily on aerodynamic modelling, using both wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), as well as flight dynamics.
  
  Increasingly, skills in these areas are also in demand in sectors such as automotive, environmental, energy and medicine.
  
  Research thesis
  
  Recent aerodynamics research thesis topics have included:
  
      * the use of micro vortex generators to prevent or delay separation of a turbulent boundary layer
      * vortex trajectory mapping for slender bodies
      * optimisation of a hypersonic intake
      * aerostable carbon car, aerodynamic drag reduction
      * active flow control for high lift systems
      * transonic nonrectangular surface cavities
      * trailing edge geometry effects on aerofoil drag.
  
  Option of
  Modules:
  
      * Aircraft Navigation and Sensors
      * Air-Vehicle Modelling and Simulation
      * CFD for Aerospace Applications
      * Compressible Flow
      * Control Systems
      * Engine Aerodynamics
      * Experimental Aerodynamics
      * Flight Dynamics Principles
      * Flying Qualities and Flight Control
      * Fundamentals of Rotorcraft Performance, Stability and Control
      * Fundamentals of Supersonic Aircraft Design
      * Launch and Re-Entry Aerodynamics
      * Supercritical Aerofoil Design
      * Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
      * Introduction to Transonic Flow
      * Launch and Re-Entry Aerodynamics
      * Modelling of Dynamic Systems
      * Multivariable Control Systems for Aerospace Applications
      * Supercritical Aerofoil Design
      * Technology for Sustainable Aviation
      * Viscous Flow
      * Group Flight Test Report

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