Our Syllabus
In each of these sections, systematic emphasis will be placed on risk assessment and control, as well as on aerospace quality concepts and indicators.
- Key challenges in air transport, aircraft design and operations
- Environmental impact of aviation
- Air transport economics
- Airworthiness and certification
- Introduction to Air Traffic Management
- European research environment
- Engine design: from mission to specification
- Performance and cycles (on- and off-design)
- Design and experimental methodologies
- Aircraft integration: constraints and aircraft/engine interaction, with a focus on nacelles and auxiliary systems
- Multidisciplinary approach to space propulsion: chemical and electric propulsion
- Preliminary design and incremental and disruptive innovations
- Turbulence, instability and transition
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Advanced fluid dynamics (compressible and unsteady flows)
- Aeroacoustics
- Aeroelasticity
- Two-phase flows and combustion
- Turbomachinery aerodynamics
- Design case study (combustion chamber or turbomachinery stage)
- Integrating all aspects of a project: technical component, project management, and team management