Spring 2023

Course Information

• Course Syllabus
• Contact Information / Office Hours
• Class Schedule / Textbooks
• Class Roster

Administrative

• Grading Policy

• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Permission Form

  • https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html
  • (docx) (pdf)
    • By Signing the Consent Form Student Authorizes Instructor to Post Grades to Course Web Page
    • Grades will be Posted By Separate Encryptian Key File that will be emailed to students
      • If a student does not choose to allow grades to be posted in a common format, their grades will be excluded from the posted list.
      • Students may request their scores on individual assignments, and their current class standing via email
      • @ Stephen.whitmore@usu.edu. Responses to individual requests may take up to two weeks to complete
    • Please place this completed form in your MAE 5540 course Dropbox or USU Box Folder
      • Failure to complete this form will be assumed as declined permission.

Distance Learning and Lecture Archival

• Zoom Classroom Link

NASA Intern and Fellowship Program for 2023

Student Resources

HISTORICAL

• History of Supersonic Flight (Selkirk College, School of Aviation)
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• Encyclopedia Astronautica

REFERENCE DATA

• MEGACONVERTER unit conversion
• 1976 US Standard Atmosphere (Ilan Kroo, Stanford U. )
• AIR -- air thermodyamic and transport properties; (W. M. Kays, Stanford U)
• FLIGHT -- calcs for aero/flight US Standard Atmosphere; (Rob Kennelly, NASA Ames )
• Aerodynamics for Students, (D. Auld, Univ. Sydney
• Aviation Weekly
• American Institude of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Engineering Student Survival Guide

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW CODE / CFD SOLVERS

• Compressible Flow Calculator I, Applet, (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech.)
• Compressible Flow Calculator II, WEB browser-based, Isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (Aerospace Web)
• Aerodynamic Flow Calculator; WEB browser applet, for isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech.)
• Compressible Flow Calculation Applets, (Purdue )
• Compressible Flow Spreadsheet, (R. Ribando, U Va.)
• Shock Calculator for perfect and real gases, WEB browser-based applet, for isentropic 1-D flow plus normal and oblique shocks; (W. Devenport, Virginia Tech. )
• Supersonic Wing calculation by shock-expansion theory, (E. Kudriavitski )
• JAVA VIRTUAL WIND TUNNEL from MIT.
• NOZZLE, applet for computing 1-D nozzle flows, (Prof. Devenport, Virginia Tech)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics ("CFD") software list (commercial, shareware, public domain, freeware)
• Transonic Small Disturbance Solver, (K. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School )

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW VISUALIZATION

• Condensation on F-14 in water fly-over
• eFluids extensive library of flow vis images
• Shock wave dynamics movie clips provided by ITS Corp.
• Gallery of Fluid Dynamics at Virginia Tech
• Schlieren Photography Principles
• NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center's Dryden Photo Gallery

ROCKET PROPULSION

• Nozzle Design
• Nozzle Design Code
• Apogee Rocket's Model Rocket Design Homepage
• Experimental Rocketry Web Site