Aerodynamics

Sketch of a blended-wing-body aircraft in flight.
Sketch of a blended-wing-body aircraft. (Image courtesy of NASA.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

16.100

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Features

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.


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