AA 241B: Aircraft Design: Synthesis and Analysis

Course Description

The second part of the two-quarter graduate course on aircraft design, AA241B builds on students? initial design work in AA 241A, but focuses on propulsion system performance and integration, structures (loads and weight estimation), mission performance (e.g. range, climb, field lengths), environmental effects (noise, local emissions, climate impact), and economics. Each student evaluates a range of parameterized versions of their concept, then performs trade studies and numerical optimization to produce a final design. The optimized design and methodology from both quarters of AA241 are then summarized in a final presentation and report. Prerequisites: AA 241A and preferably some previous courses in the following fields: structures, propulsion, dynamics, and engineering optimization.