Sketch of a blended-wing-body aircraft. (Image courtesy of
NASA.)
Course Highlights
This course features a full set of problem sets in the
assignments section, as well as resources and a full description of the final project in the
projects section.
Course Description
This course extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to the aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. 16.100 generally has four components: subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, including laminar and turbulent boundary layers; aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, including thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, and panel method/interacting boundary layer methods; and supersonic and hypersonic airfoil theory. Course material varies each year depending upon the focus of the design problem.