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I've seen a few people build small ones, and all I can say is think twice about doing this in your own back yard or garage. One group set fire to a building, and another had theirs explode injuring a person. The temperatures for even a small rudimentary one are quite high, and so are the opportunities to hurt yourself. Close neighbors are not going to be happy with the fire hazard or the noise.
You want at least one fluids class-thermal fluids for example-under your belt tho all the math was basically algebra. Best book I can recommend for understanding practical problems with various engines and the math is Aircraft Propulsion. Keeps the fluids math pretty low level as it wasn't required for a class that was both for Mechies and Aeros. Could do all the math in excel. It covers a wide range of engines along with the multiple stages for turbine engines.
I don’t know of a single book that covers both of those topics in detail. My favorite astrodynamics reference is Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications by Vallado. The 4th edition especially has some good sections on gravity assists and interplanetary trajectory design and techniques.
For attitude dynamics and kinematics, I like Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control by Markley and Crassidis. Maybe someone else will know of a better single option, as neither book is especially cheap. I will say though, if you don’t mind the cost those two books are easily my most used references at work and are well worth the investment if you are or plan on doing GNC/ADCS work.
I highly recommend learning the Python language. Start by downloading the <strong>Anaconda distribution</strong> of Python 3 and installing it on your system. Once it's finished installing, run the Anaconda launcher and wait for it to load (it will take a minute), then start up qtPython or JupyterLab to get a Python interpreter.
Finally go to <strong>Automate the Boring Stuff With Python</strong> by Al Sweigart, and work your way through each chapter. In total it should take roughly 40 hours, maybe longer if this is your first programming language.
Professor Holger Babinsky at Cambridge university has fairly well explained the actual reasons. Here's a Google scholar linkHere's a Google scholar link to a PDF of his paper
I went to a lecture where he explained this at greater length and it made a lot of sense!
Completely agree. I only suggest MATLAB because a lot of my AE coursework specifically demanded it, and there are a lot of pockets in industry tied to various toolboxes and to Simulink. Python is a fantastic and versatile language. I've also been intrigued by the potential of Rust (/r/rust) lately.
Regarding learning another language, most of the world does business in English, Mandarin, or Spanish, but as an engineer (depending on your situation) you are very unlikely to be doing any business. If you have to/want to learn a new language anyway, choose one that interests you linguistically or culturally. It probably won't help your career directly, but it will probably make you a more interesting/fulfilled/worldly person. I recommend to anyone tools like Duolingo to try out different languages to see what you like (or your propensity for a new language at all) before committing to weeks- or months-long courses.
<strong>Anaconda</strong> is all you need for scientific development, and comes with a MATLAB-like IDE called Spyder. It's not as nice as other IDEs when it comes to auditing and development, but it's good for learning Python with the command/variable explorer and gets the job done.
Outside of that, I recommend <strong>Sublime Text</strong> over PyCharm any day of the week. It has a plugin library which makes gives it the feature richness of PyCharm, minus all the fluff you don't need or want. The biggest plus IMO is that while both have free trial versions, a permanent license of Sublime is only $80, whereas PyCharm is a subscription product for the professional version.
Intro/core/pre-req classes, where you're large classes with people who will pursue different majors than you, aren't the best experience. Starting sophomore year, and then more so in junior and senior years, you'll take classes in your major, and develop a close-knit group of friends who will become your "study buddies." You'll also develop working relationships with your aerospace professors, and I found they were receptive to input and recommendations from the students, since the class sizes were so small, and we took several classes with them.
Sophomore and senior level aerospace classes were my favorite, since they covered a lot of theory and you could directly see how the math related to its application. Junior year had several classes that were outside of the Aero dept, but were required to get a firm foundation for aerospace (thermo and EE). I found Junior year to be the toughest academically, but I still saw how what I was learning was applicable to aerospace.
It's not surprising to hear that you don't like the core/pre-req classes and online math programs, because not many people do. I'd stick it out until you've taken Intro to Aero, and if you're still not enjoying it, you still have time to switch majors. But keep in mind that there will be additional classes down the road that you may find more challenging than precalc.
Another idea would be to register classes with professors who have a good reputation for teaching. I would base my schedule each semester around getting professors with a good reputation using word of mouth or http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/. This works especially well for core classes, where there are usually multiple teachers to choose from, and the teacher you get can make all the difference in how you experience a class.
Another along these lines is Orbiter which is completely free.
Focused more on realism. No cute Kerbals, more physics & programming. Graphics are dated though.
Yeah, also make one here http://www.airbus-group.com/airbusgroup/int/en/work-for-airbusgroup/apply/search-for-vacancies.html . They have more than a thousand positions open there at any given time. And here http://www.4shared.com/zip/ooCgGceP/internships.html Ive put some of our uni listings for another guy, you could also check it out. Its all in the Netherlands.
I used Jan Roskam's books for my UAV design project. The first book contains enough info to do major structure sizing produce a very good college design project.
This is probably beside the point, but the "search and rescue" goal doesn't really seem to fit with the "exclusively uses runways" parameter. If the person that needs to be found and rescued can make it to a runway, do they still need to be rescued? Most SAR operations take place in rugged terrain where there are no flat runways. Aircraft only help if they can hover or VTOL for pickup or serve as a spotter platform to direct ground personnel from the air.
Maximizing loiter time, as you would want for a plane that has to search for something, would produce a different wing design that one that maximizes range. This may not matter much since your prompt does not mention loiter time, just range and speed.
Also, the fuel fraction for cruising 3200km at 2800m is going to be a lot.
It sounds like the prompt is very unrealistic, but you can run the numbers anyway.
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I know I'm a few days late to this thread, but I can totally relate to your feeling left behind. My advice would be to not worry about having less general knowledge than your peers. If you want to catch up and probably surpass them, you should really just commit yourself to a plan. Maybe decor an hour or two per week identifying you weaknesses/knowledge gaps and working on the ones you think will benefit you the most.
If you are focused with a learning/improvement plan like this for any extended period of time, you will easily catch up and surpass your peers.
Another important factor to keep in mind is that early in Univeristy, broad general knowledge is obvious because you study many different topics and courses, even engineering courses, are very broad. In your career you will focus your attention more narrowly, and the general knowledge shortcomings you feel now will probably not apply. In fact, you probably perceive them to be larger than they are now.
Your still young. Plenty of time. If your interested, there's a pretty good business book that has lots of good advice about how to build your career. The basic advice is hat you should focus on acquiring skills that interest you rather than going for a specific job or company that you THINK interest you.
On modile so I can't really link easily, but the book is: So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport.
Good luck.
I’d suggest Crucial Conversations and Influencer as part of the summer reading list.
Regarding the jet propulsion I would certainly recommend “The Jet Engine” by Rolls Royce. It’s a good place to start if you wanna know the principles of jet propulsion and learn some history as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Jet-Engine-Rolls-Royce/dp/1119065992
You may also find a pdf online
The solar panels were designed in a way to allow printing with multiple colours. In Cura you can define a command to pause the print and change the filament and then resume the print (Post Processing-> Filament Change) and I believe that in other slicers as well. So I set multiple pause/resume and changed the filament colour at each one. I did the same in a different model I made before but this one has mode changes. Quite satisfied with the result :)
The model is available here.
What issues do you seem to be having? I can't offer much help on the Fluent front, but I am pretty comfortable with VSP. Good first places to look for solutions to your VSP problems are the wiki or the Google group. There's a meshing tutorial on the wiki that gives a pretty good background for all of the settings and some basic best practices. I'd also look through the VSP to Cart3D tutorial, as it goes over the differences in some of the meshing options available.
Looks like the guys on solar impulse did this constantly: link. Solar impulse only travels like 50 km/h though so makes more sense than the photo you've shown!
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The best publications I've come across on injectors is from the 70s, but seems like a very good and still relevant source of information.
And publication of deep throttling of engines.
I did a quick search and can confirm that it doesn't appear to be available in any electronic form. However, that doesn't surprise me. There is a very small chance of proceedings from 1958 being scanned. I've had trouble finding proceedings from the 1990s!
However, a search of WorldCat shows that a number of academic libraries (in the US) have a hard copy of this book. If you have access to any of those libraries, you may be able to find it there or to have your local research library request to borrow the book.
I would recommend the component drag build up method. It is probably the most accurate way to estimate drag without doing detailed analysis.
Yes you can do it in COMSOL, will it be simple? probably not. You won't find a package that will handle it automatically that I know of. I think you would start with the heat transfer add on package, create a time dependent study, then model the surface. You would then apply the radiation from the sun, IR form earth, and everything else, you can couple the different modes of heat transfer, and then run the simulation. I assume you have significant knowledge in the area of the simulation so you can tell if the results are realistic or not.
Also, COMSOL offers a bunch of free tutorials in major cities, you get a 2 week free trial of COMSOL with ALL the add on packages unlocked, and they usually have a very well versed engineer or scientist doing the demo so you may be able to get a more detailed explanation from them on how you could set up the simulation. This manual also has a few tutorials on how to set things up if you haven't seen it already:
http://www.comsol.com/shared/downloads/IntroductionToCOMSOLMultiphysics.pdf
Here is a link to the hands on demo's:
No, that is not a website. It's a proposal for a new Q&A site on http://stackexchange.com/sites#name set of sites. A new Q&A site for all subdivisions of remote sensing including thermal, radar, hyperspectral, ets together with remote sensing. You can follow the proposal as a GPS remote sensing expert and you can add comments and discussions and example questions there in order to help me decide on the content of the new site. You can also promote the proposal yourself and encourage your colleagues to follow it. If you read some parts of http://area51.stackexchange.com/, you will understand what I'm telling. We need supporters, followers and committers in order to convince stack exchange authorities to build a new site for remote sensing
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Robert-Zubrin-ebook/dp/B004G8QU6U
TL;DR:
Radiation isn't *that* much of an issue.
People live in inhospitable locations.
Dust covers are a thing.
i found a newer version on amazon for around $11,000, without requesting pricing for a new one directly form their website, i can deduce that the one in the image is much older and used, with that said, depending on how much its been used and how efficient it is running today i would price that between $6,000 and $8,000
I highly recommend reading Kelly Johnson's autobiography (https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/0874744911) alongside this. The difference in management style and different perspective of the overlapping portions of their careers is very interesting
They're designing a plane that's profitable even if the laws about overland supersonic flight don't change, i.e. flying routes over water alone.
Also I agree it would be tough for a large aerospace company to do it, because they've gotten really good at doing what they do, so something different would have a lot of growing pains. A startup on the other hand can tailor its structure to the new product. Check out "The Innovator's Dilemma", it explains this concept better than I can.
Joe Sutter (father of the 747) wrote 2 books I believe.
I recommend McRuer, which you already listed, but if none of those is working for you, you could give Stevens and Lewis a try.
Aw shoot... that's one of the ones I don't have a good book on and am actually on the look-out for. I had Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion in college, but I found it confusing and non sequitur.
If you are moving toward aerospace propulsion systems, two frequently cited texts are Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines and Rocket Propulsion Elements
I really suggest you to read Chris Hadfield's book, "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", it's a really good book explaining all the sacrifices and requirement he did to become an astronaut, but that everything was well worth it in the end.
A really amazing book !
MATLAB is a large focus. Picking up a student edition for $100, and a book for $20 will be well worth it. I don't know how long the student license lasts, but it should be at least a year or two, and I think it allows you to continue use, but you don't receive free updates.
Past that it's a bunch of classes that all build on each other. If you like Aerospace an Intro to Aerospace book may help, but I never had a book when I was in that class.
Introduction to Flight was listed, however: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Flight-John-Anderson/dp/0073380245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441221275&sr=8-1&keywords=intro+to+aerospace+engineering+anderson
Thank you. I guess my mentors were genuinely impressed when they complemented me for my implementation.
Would you say the Control Handbook is kind of the "catch all" reference book for control systems engineering? I plan on reading through those volumes during summer.
Not necessarily a performance parameter, but if you're doing anything civil related $/RPM is going to be one of the most important metrics that gets left out of a lot of undergrad design projects and can really set your team apart.
As for performance books, check out Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators. Not as formal as some of the other books mentioned here, but gives a good understanding of flight performance from a pilot's perspective.
Bates, White, and Mueller are all co-authors of this book: Amazon link, which is commonly referred to as the "BMW" book because of their names.
Side note - it looks like there's a second edition, so might want to go for that. The first edition is fine so far to me, probably just has some outdated numbers or notations.
It really depends on what you want. Im a Student and we used Flight Dynamics by Jan Rosham http://www.amazon.com/Airplane-Flight-Dynamics-Automatic-Controls/dp/1884885179 Its pretty basic and easy to get.