Last Updated: 8/24/09

MAE 4120 Air Breathing Propulsion Prerequisite Skills List

Students entering MAE 4120 are expected to have a fundamental understanding of the following topics:

Basic Fluid Mechanics

Control volumes and conservation equations

Mass (continuity)

Linear momentum

Incompressible flow

Lift & drag

Compressible flow concepts

Ideal gases

Stagnation properties

Mach number

Isentropic flow with area change

Dimensional analysis

Thermodynamics

1^st Law for an open system

Processes

Adiabatic

Isentropic

Non-isentropic

T-s diagrams

p-v diagrams

Properties

Enthalpy

Internal Energy

Specific Heats

Entropy

Ideal Gases

Gas Cycles

Otto Cycle

Diesel Cycle

Rankine Cycle

Brayton Cycle

Efficiency

Other

Elementary ordinary differential equations

Numerical/I.T. skills

Presentation (graphing) skills with Excel or other package

Solution of single and multiple algebraic equations using Excel or other solver routine

Principles of design

Chemistry

Balance Equations