Propulsion. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

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Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. Application of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to the analysis of problems related to the propulsion of aerospace vehicles. Development of control volume analysis techniques for compressible flow problems, with applications in the design and analysis of rocket nozzles and state-of-the-art propulsion systems like ramjets, scramjets, and detonation cycle systems. This course has Differential Tuition.