3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionData from last updated 2/18/2026
Fall 2025
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Analysis of advanced high speed air breathing propulsion concepts for hypersonic flight. Missions and trajectories. Engine/airframe integration. Aerothermodynamic analysis of ramjets, scramjets, and oblique detonation wave engines. On- and off-design of compression inlets and minimum length nozzles. Cryogenic fuels and skin cooling. Ram accelerator ballistic launch concepts.
Learning Outcomes1Develop understanding of high-speed inlet systems.
2Develop understanding of mixing systems employed in airbreathing engines.
3Develop understanding of turbine-based combined cycle systems.
4Develop understanding of detonative-based propulsion systems.
5Develop understanding of ducted rockets.
6Develop understanding of ramjet and scramjet propulsion systems.
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