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class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">Units to be arranged in accordance with work accomplished</span> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item"></span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Open to suitably qualified undergraduates and first-year graduate students under the direction of the staff. Credit is based on the satisfactory completion of a substantive research report, which must be approved by the Ae 100 adviser and by the option representative. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeaphceme-101-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Fluid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: APh 17 or ME 11 abc, and ME 12 or equivalent, ACM 95/100 or equivalent (may be taken concurrently).</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Microscopic and macroscopic properties of liquids and gases; the continuum hypothesis; review of thermodynamics; general equations of motion; kinematics; stresses; constitutive relations; vorticity, circulation; Bernoulli's equation; potential flow; thin-airfoil theory; surface gravity waves; buoyancy-driven flows; rotating flows; viscous creeping flow; viscous boundary layers; introduction to stability and turbulence; quasi one-dimensional compressible flow; shock waves; unsteady compressible flow; and acoustics. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Shepherd </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeamceme-102-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Mechanics of Structures and Solids </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ME 35 abc or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Static and dynamic stress analysis. Two- and three-dimensional theory of stressed elastic solids. Analysis of structural elements with applications in a variety of fields. Variational theorems and approximate solutions, finite elements. A variety of special topics will be discussed in the third term such as, but not limited to, elastic stability, wave propagation, and introductory fracture mechanics. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructors:</span> Ortiz, Pellegrino </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeaph-104-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/APh 104 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Experimental Methods </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6 a), (0-6-3 b and c)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ACM 95/100 abc or equivalent (may be taken concurrently), Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent (may be taken concurrently).</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Lectures on experiment design and implementation. Measurement methods, transducer fundamentals, instrumentation, optical systems, signal processing, noise theory, analog and digital electronic fundamentals, with data acquisition and processing systems. Experiments (second and third terms) in solid and fluid mechanics with emphasis on current research methods. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Ravichandran </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-105-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 105 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Aerospace Engineering </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: APh 17 or ME 11 abc and ME 12 or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Part a: Introduction to spacecraft systems and subsystems, mission design, fundamentals of orbital and rocket mechanics, launch vehicles and space environments; JPL-assisted design exercise; spacecraft mechanical, structural, and thermal design; numerical modeling, test validation. Part b: Introduction to guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), measurement systems, Kalman filtering, system analysis, simulation, statistical error analysis, case studies of JPL GNC applications; preliminary discussion and setup for team project leading to system requirements review. Part c: Team project leading to preliminary design review and critical design review. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructors:</span> Pellegrino, Davis, Scharf </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ceaeam-108-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> CE/Ae/AM 108 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Computational Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/ME/CE 102abc or Ae/GE/ME 160ab, or instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Numerical methods and techniques for solving initial boundary value problems in continuum mechanics (from heat conduction to statics and dynamics of solids and structures). Finite difference methods, direct methods, variational methods, finite elements in small strains and at finite deformation for applications in structural mechanics and solid mechanics. Solution of the partial differential equations of heat transfer, solid and structural mechanics, and fluid mechanics. Transient and nonlinear problems. Computational aspects and development and use of finite element code. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Kochmann </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-115-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 115 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Spacecraft Navigation </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: CDS 110 a.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> This course will survey all aspects of modern spacecraft navigation, including astrodynamics, tracking systems for both low-Earth and deep-space applications (including the Global Positioning System and the Deep Space Network observables), and the statistical orbit determination problem (in both the batch and sequential Kalman filter implementations). The course will describe some of the scientific applications directly derived from precision orbital knowledge, such as planetary gravity field and topography modeling. Numerous examples drawn from actual missions as navigated at JPL will be discussed. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aphphae-116"> <div class="course-description2__label"> APh/Ph/Ae 116 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Physics of Thermal and Mass Transport in Hydrodynamic Systems </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">12 units (3-0-9)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ACM 95 or equivalent and APh/Ph 115 or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Contemporary research in many areas of physics requires some knowledge of how momentum transport in fluids couples to diffusive phenomena driven by thermal or concentration gradients. This course will first examine processes driven purely by diffusion and progress toward description of systems governed by steady and unsteady convection-diffusion and reaction-diffusion. Topics will include Fickian dynamics, thermal transfer in Peltier devices, Lifshitz-Slyozov growth during phase separation, thermocouple measurements of oscillatory fields, reaction-diffusion phenomena in biophysical systems, buoyancy driven flows, and boundary layer formation. Students must have working knowledge of vector calculus, ODEs, PDEs, complex variables and basic tensor analysis. Advanced solution methods such as singular perturbation, Sturm-Liouville and Green's function analysis will be taught in class as needed. First term is APh/Ph 115. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Troian </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeme-118"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/ME 118 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Classical Thermodynamics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ME 11 abc, ME 12, or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics. Basic postulates and laws of thermodynamics, work and heat, entropy and available work, and thermal systems. Equations of state, compressibility functions, and the Law of Corresponding States. Thermodynamic potentials, chemical and phase equilibrium, phase transitions, and thermodynamic properties of solids, liquids, and gases. Examples will be drawn from fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and thermal science applications. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Dimotakis </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeme-120-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/ME 120 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Combustion Fundamentals </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ME 119 a or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> The course will cover thermodynamics of pure substances and mixtures, equations of state, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, combustion chemistry, transport phenomena, and the governing equations for multicomponent gas mixtures. Topics will be chosen from non-premixed and premixed flames, the fluid mechanics of laminar flames, flame mechanisms of combustion-generated pollutants, and numerical simulations of multicomponent reacting flows. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Blanquart </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-121-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 121 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Space Propulsion </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Open to all graduate students and to seniors with instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Ae 121 is designed to introduce the fundamentals of chemical, electric and advanced propulsion technologies. The course focuses on the thermochemistry and aerodynamics of chemical and electrothermal propulsion systems, the physics of ionized gases and electrostatic and electromagnetic processes in electric thrusters. These analyses provide the opportunity to introduce the basic concepts of non-equilibrium gas dynamics and kinetic theory. Specific technologies such as launch vehicle rocket engines, monopropellant engines, arcjets, ion thrusters, magnetoplasmadynamic engines and Hall thrusters will be discussed. Ae 121 also provides an introduction to advanced propulsion concepts such as solar sails and antimatter rockets. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Polk </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-150-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 150 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Aerospace Engineering Seminar </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">1 unit</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Speakers from campus and outside research and manufacturing organizations discuss current problems and advances in aerospace engineering. Graded pass/fail. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> McKeon </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="eeae-157-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> EE/Ae 157 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Introduction to the Physics of Remote Sensing </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ph 2 or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> An overview of the physics behind space remote sensing instruments. Topics include the interaction of electromagnetic waves with natural surfaces, including scattering of microwaves, microwave and thermal emission from atmospheres and surfaces, and spectral reflection from natural surfaces and atmospheres in the near-infrared and visible regions of the spectrum. The class also discusses the design of modern space sensors and associated technology, including sensor design, new observation techniques, ongoing developments, and data interpretation. Examples of applications and instrumentation in geology, planetology, oceanography, astronomy, and atmospheric research. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> van Zyl </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-159"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 159 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Space Optical System Engineering </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">third term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ph 2, EE/Ae 157, or equivalent; APh 23 desirable.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Introduction to optical system engineering for remote sensing from space will be presented. End-to-end optical systems are discussed within the framework of the 10 scientific/technical disciplines required to build a successful system: optical engineering, physical optics of materials, solid-state physics/detectors, mechanics and mechanisms engineering, wavefront sensing and control, structures and dynamics, thermal engineering, spacecraft engineering, psychology of vision and software processing of images, and end-to-end system validation and calibration. Emphasis will be on the development of optical engineering tools. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aegeme-160-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Elements of Cartesian tensors. Configurations and motions of a body. Kinematics-study of deformations, rotations and stretches, polar decomposition. Lagrangian and Eulerian strain velocity and spin tensor fields. Irrotational motions, rigid motions. Kinetics-balance laws. Linear and angular momentum, force, traction stress. Cauchy's theorem, properties of Cauchy's stress. Equations of motion, equilibrium equations. Power theorem, nominal (Piola-Kirchoff) stress. Thermodynamics of bodies. Internal energy, heat flux, heat supply. Laws of thermodynamics, notions of entropy, absolute temperature. Entropy inequality (Clausius-Duhem). Examples of special classes of constitutive laws for materials without memory. Objective rates, corotational, convected rates. Principles of materials frame indifference. Examples: the isotropic Navier-Stokes fluid, the isotropic thermoelastic solid. Basics of finite differences, finite elements, and boundary integral methods, and their applications to continuum mechanics problems illustrating a variety of classes of constitutive laws. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Ortiz </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="aece-165-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/CE 165 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (2-2-5)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 a or ME 65.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Introduction and fabrication technology, elastic deformation of composites, stiffness bounds, on- and off-axis elastic constants for a lamina, elastic deformation of multidirectional laminates (lamination theory, ABD matrix), effective hygrothermal properties, mechanisms of yield and failure for a laminate, strength of a single ply, failure models, splitting and delamination. Experimental methods for characterization and testing of composite materials. Design criteria, application of design methods to select a suitable laminate using composite design software, hand layup of a simple laminate and measurement of its stiffness and thermoelastic coefficients. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-200"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 200 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Advanced Research in Aerospace </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">Units to be arranged</span> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item"></span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Ae.E. or Ph.D. thesis level research under the direction of the staff. A written research report must be submitted during finals week each term. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-201-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 201 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Advanced Fluid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent; AM 125 abc or ACM 101 (may be taken concurrently).</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Foundations of the mechanics of real fluids. Basic concepts will be emphasized. Subjects covered will include a selection from the following topics: physical properties of real gases; the equations of motion of viscous and inviscid fluids; the dynamical significance of vorticity; vortex dynamics; exact solutions; motion at high Reynolds numbers; hydrodynamic stability; boundary layers; flow past bodies; compressible flow; subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flow; shock waves. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-204-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 204 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Technical Fluid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> External and internal flow problems encountered in engineering, for which only empirical methods exist. Turbulent shear flow, separation, transition, three-dimensional and nonsteady effects. Basis of engineering practice in the design of devices such as mixers, ejectors, diffusers, and control valves. Studies of flow-induced oscillations, wind effects on structures, vehicle aerodynamics. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-205-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 205 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Advanced Space Project </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (2-4-3)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae105 abc.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> This is an advanced course on the design and implementation of space projects and it is currently focused on the flight project Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope (AAReST). The objective is to be ready for launch and operation in 2015. Each student will be responsible for a specific activity, chosen from the following: optimization of telescope system architecture; design, assembly and testing of telescope optics; telescope calibration procedure and algorithms for wavefront control; thermal analysis; boom design and deployment test methods; effects of spacecraft dynamics on telescope performance; environmental testing of telescope system. Each student will prepare a survey of the state of the art for the selected activity, and then develop a design/implementation plan, execute the plan and present the results in a final report. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Pellegrino </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-208-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 208 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> GALCIT Colloquium </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">1 unit</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> A seminar course in fluid, solid, space, and bio mechanics. Weekly lectures on current developments are presented by staff members, graduate students, and visiting scientists and engineers. Graded pass/fail. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructors:</span> Kochmann, McKeon </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="aeammsme-213"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/MS/ME 213 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Mechanics and Materials Aspects of Fracture </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc (concurrently) or equivalent and instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Analytical and experimental techniques in the study of fracture in metallic and nonmetallic solids. Mechanics of brittle and ductile fracture; connections between the continuum descriptions of fracture and micromechanisms. Discussion of elastic-plastic fracture analysis and fracture criteria. Special topics include fracture by cleavage, void growth, rate sensitivity, crack deflection and toughening mechanisms, as well as fracture of nontraditional materials. Fatigue crack growth and life prediction techniques will also be discussed. In addition, "dynamic" stress wave dominated, failure initiation growth and arrest phenomena will be covered. This will include traditional dynamic fracture considerations as well as discussions of failure by adiabatic shear localization. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="aeamceme-214-abc"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/CE/ME 214 abc </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Computational Solid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: AM 125 abc or equivalent; ACM 100 abc or equivalent; CE/AM/Ae 108 abc or equivalent or instructor's permission; Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc or equivalent; Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab desirable or taken concurrently.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Introduction to the use of numerical methods in the solution of solid mechanics and materials problems. First term: geometrical representation of solids. Automatic meshing. Approximation theory. Interpolation error estimation. Optimal and adaptive meshing. Second term: variational principles in linear elasticity. Finite element analysis. Error estimation. Convergence. Singularities. Adaptive strategies. Constrained problems. Mixed methods. Stability and convergence. Variational problems in nonlinear elasticity. Consistent linearization. The Newton-Rahpson method. Bifurcation analysis. Adaptive strategies in nonlinear elasticity. Constrained finite deformation problems. Contact and friction. Third term: time integration. Algorithm analysis. Accuracy, stability, and convergence. Operator splitting and product formulas. Coupled problems. Impact and friction. Subcycling. Space-time methods. Inelastic solids. Constitutive updates. Stability and convergence. Consistent linearization. Applications to finite deformation viscoplasticity, viscoelasticity, and Lagrangian modeling of fluid flows. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="aeamme-215"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/ME 215 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Dynamic Behavior of Materials </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ACM 100 abc or AM 125 abc; Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Fundamentals of theory of wave propagation; plane waves, wave guides, dispersion relations; dynamic plasticity, adiabatic shear banding; dynamic fracture; shock waves, equation of state. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeme-218"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/ME 218 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Statistical Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/ME118, or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Overview of probability and statistics, and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Overview and elements of Quantum Mechanics, degenerate energy states, particles in a box, and energy-state phase space. Statistics of indistinguishable elementary particles, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, partition functions, connections with classical thermodynamics, and the Law of Equipartition. Examples from equilibrium in fluids, solid-state physics, and others. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Dimotakis </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-220"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 220 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Theory of Structures </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Fundamentals of buckling and stability, total potential energy and direct equilibrium approaches; classification of instabilities into snap-through type and bifurcation type; rigid-elastic structures, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors of stiffness matrix; elastic structures; approximate estimates of buckling load; Rayleigh quotient; lateral buckling of columns: Euler strut, imperfections, Southwell plot, beam-columns, stability coefficients, buckling of frames; elasto-plastic buckling: tangent-modulus, double-modulus, Shanley's analysis; lateral-torsional buckling of beams; buckling of plates; buckling of cylindrical shells. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aece-221"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/CE 221 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Space Structures </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> This course examines the links between form, geometric shape, and structural performance. It deals with different ways of breaking up a continuum, and how this affects global structural properties; structural concepts and preliminary design methods that are used in tension structures and deployable structures. Geometric foundations, polyhedra and tessellations, surfaces; space frames, examples of space frames, stiffness and structural efficiency of frames with different repeating units; sandwich plates; cable and membrane structures, form-finding, wrinkle-free pneumatic domes, balloons, tension-stabilized struts, tensegrity domes; deployable and adaptive structures, coiled rods and their applications, flexible shells, membranes, structural mechanisms, actuators, concepts for adaptive trusses and manipulators. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Pellegrino </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeamme-223"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/ME 223 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Plasticity </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc or instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Theory of dislocations in crystalline media. Characteristics of dislocations and their influence on the mechanical behavior in various crystal structures. Application of dislocation theory to single and polycrystal plasticity. Theory of the inelastic behavior of materials with negligible time effects. Experimental background for metals and fundamental postulates for plastic stress-strain relations. Variational principles for incremental elastic-plastic problems, uniqueness. Upper and lower bound theorems of limit analysis and shakedown. Slip line theory and applications. Additional topics may include soils, creep and rate-sensitive effects in metals, the thermodynamics of plastic deformation, and experimental methods in plasticity. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Andrade </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeamme-225"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/AM/ME 225 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Special Topics in Solid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">Units to be arranged</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Subject matter changes depending upon staff and student interest. (1) Stress Waves in Solids. 9 units (3-0-6); second term. Stress waves will be introduced by considering plane waves which allow the principal features of stress wave propagation to be explored without introducing the geometric complexities of waves in 3D. Formulation will include elastic materials and dissipative materials that are modeled as viscoelastic or viscoplastic. For elastic materials, we will consider waves in unbounded anisotropic media, refraction at plane boundaries, surface waves, wave guides, phase velocity and group velocity, waves in periodic media, energy transport, and diffraction. For dissipative materials, we will consider frequency- dependent attenuation, elastic precursor decay, and nonlinear waves in 1D. Examples, and opportunities to explore more advanced topics, will be chosen to try to respond to student interests. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Clifton </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-228"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 228 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Computational Mechanics Simulations Using Particles </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 214 or equivalent or Ae/ACM/ME 232 or equivalent, ACM 104, ACM 105, or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Particle simulations of continuum and discrete systems. Advances in molecular, mesoscopic, and macroscale simulations using particles, identification of common computing paradigms and challenges across disciplines, discretizations and representations using particles, fast summation algorithms, time integrators, constraints, and multiresolution. Exercises will draw on problems simulated using particles from diverse areas such as fluid and solid mechanics, computer graphics, and nanotechnology. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aeacmme-232-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/ACM/ME 232 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Computational Fluid Dynamics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent; ACM 100 abc or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Development and analysis of algorithms used in the solution of fluid mechanics problems. Numerical analysis of discretization schemes for partial differential equations including interpolation, integration, spatial discretization, systems of ordinary differential equations; stability, accuracy, aliasing, Gibbs and Runge phenomena, numerical dissipation and dispersion; boundary conditions. Survey of finite difference, finite element, finite volume and spectral approximations for the numerical solution of the incompressible and compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, including shock-capturing methods. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructors:</span> Pullin, Meiron </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-233"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 233 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Hydrodynamic Stability </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">third term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Laminar-stability theory as a guide to laminar-turbulent transition. Rayleigh equation, instability criteria, and response to small inviscid disturbances. Discussion of Kelvin-Helmholtz, Rayleigh-Taylor, Richtmyer-Meshkov, and other instabilities, for example, in geophysical flows. The Orr-Sommerfeld equation, the dual role of viscosity, and boundary-layer stability. Modern concepts such as pseudomomentum conservation laws and nonlinear stability theorems for 2-D and geophysical flows. Weakly nonlinear stability theory and phenomenological theories of turbulence. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> McKeon </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-234"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 234 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Hypersonic Aerodynamics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent, AM 125 abc, or instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> An advanced course dealing with aerodynamic problems of flight at hypersonic speeds. Topics are selected from hypersonic small-disturbance theory, blunt-body theory, boundary layers and shock waves in real gases, heat and mass transfer, testing facilities and experiment. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-235"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 235 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Rarefied Gasdynamics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">third term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Molecular description of matter; distribution functions; discrete-velocity gases. Kinetic theory: free-path theory, internal degrees of freedom. Boltzmann equation: BBGKY hierarchy and closure, H theorem, Euler equations, Chapman-Enskog procedure, free-molecule flows. Collisionless and transitional flows. Direct simulation Monte Carlo methods. Applications. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-237-a"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 237 a </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Nonsteady Gasdynamics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Part a: dynamics of shock waves, expansion waves, and related discontinuities in gases. Adiabatic phase-transformation waves. Interaction of waves in one- and two-dimensional flows. Boundary layers and shock structure. Applications and shock tube techniques. Part b: shock and detonation waves in solids and liquids. Equations of state for hydrodynamic computations in solids, liquids, and explosive reaction products. CJ and ZND models of detonation in solids and liquids. Propagation of shock waves and initiation of reaction in explosives. Interactions of detonation waves with water and metals. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-239-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 239 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Turbulence </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc; AM 125 abc or ACM 101.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Reynolds- averaged equations and the problem of closure. Statistical description of turbulence. Homogeneous isotropic turbulence and structure of fine scales. Turbulent shear flows. Physical and spectral models. Subgridscale modeling. Turbulent mixing. Structure of low and high Reynolds number wall turbulence. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="ae-240"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 240 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">Units to be arranged</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">first, second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Subject matter changes depending upon staff and student interest. (1) Educational exchange at Ecole Polytechnique. Students participating in the Ecole Polytechnique educational exchange must register for 36 units while they are on detached duty at Ecole Polytechnique. For further information refer to the graduate option information for Aerospace. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> McKeon </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="aebe-242"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/BE 242 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Biological Flows: Propulsion </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">third term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent or ChE 103 a.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Physical principles of unsteady fluid momentum transport: equations of motion, dimensional analysis, conservation laws. Unsteady vortex dynamics: vorticity generation and dynamics, vortex dipoles/rings, wake structure in unsteady flows. Life in moving fluids: unsteady drag, added-mass effects, virtual buoyancy, bounding and schooling, wake capture. Thrust generation by flapping, undulating, rowing, jetting. Low Reynolds number propulsion. Bioinspired design of propulsion devices. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Dabiri </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="medebeae-243"> <div class="course-description2__label"> MedE/BE/Ae 243 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Biological Flows: Transport and Circulatory Systems </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/APh/CE/ME 101 abc or equivalent or ChE 103 a.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Internal flows: steady and pulsatile blood flow in compliant vessels, internal flows in organisms. Fluid dynamics of the human circulatory system: heart, veins, and arteries (microcirculation). Mass and momentum transport across membranes and endothelial layers. Fluid mechanics of the respiratory system. Renal circulation and circulatory system. Biological pumps. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Pahlevan </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="ae-244"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae 244 </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Mechanics of Nanomaterials </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second term</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Basics of the mechanics of nanomaterials, including the physical and chemical synthesis/processing techniques for creating nanostructures and their relation with mechanical and other structural properties.Overview of the properties of various types of nanomaterials including nanostructured metals/ceramics/composites, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, nanopatterns, self-assembled colloidal crystals, magnetic nanomaterials, and biorelated nanomaterials. Innovative experimental methods and microstructural characterization developed for studying the mechanics at the nanoscale will be described. Recent advances in the application of nanomaterials in engineering systems and patent-related aspects of nanomaterials will also be covered. Open to undergraduates with instructor's permission. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 course-description2--not-offered" id="aecdsme-251-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> Ae/CDS/ME 251 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Closed Loop Flow Control </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6 a, 1-6-1- b)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: ACM 100abc, Ae/APh/CE/ME 101abc or equivalent.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> This course seeks to introduce students to recent developments in theoretical and practical aspects of applying control to flow phenomena and fluid systems. Lecture topics in the second term drawn from: the objectives of flow control; a review of relevant concepts from classical and modern control theory; high-fidelity and reduced-order modeling; principles and design of actuators and sensors. Third term: laboratory work in open- and closed-loop control of boundary layers, turbulence, aerodynamic forces, bluff body drag, combustion oscillations and flow-acoustic oscillations. Not offered 2014-15. </div> </div> <div class="course-description2 " id="megeae-266-ab"> <div class="course-description2__label"> ME/Ge/Ae 266 ab </div> <h2 class="course-description2__title"> Dynamic Fracture and Frictional Faulting </h2> <div class="course-description2__units-and-terms"> <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">9 units (3-0-6)</span>   |  <span class="course-description2__units-and-terms__item">second, third terms</span> </div> <div class="course-description2__prerequisites">Prerequisites: Ae/AM/CE/ME 102 abc or Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab or instructor's permission.</div> <div class="course-description2__description course-description2__general-text"> Introduction to elastodynamics and waves in solids. Dynamic fracture theory, energy concepts, cohesive zone models. Friction laws, nucleation of frictional instabilities, dynamic rupture of frictional interfaces. Radiation from moving cracks. Thermal effects during dynamic fracture and faulting. Crack branching and faulting along nonplanar interfaces. Related dynamic phenomena, such as adiabatic shear localization. Applications to engineering phenomena and physics and mechanics of earthquakes. </div> <div class="course-description2__instructors course-description2__general-text"> <span class="course-description2__instructors__label font-weight-bold">Instructor:</span> Lapusta </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="page-published-at"> Published Date: July 28, 2022 </div> </main> <footer class="footer-container"> <div class="footer d-flex flex-column flex-wrap flex-sm-row justify-content-sm-between"> <div class="footer__torch-box"></div> <img alt="Caltech Torch" class="footer__torch" src="/static/theme7/img/flame.png"> <div class="footer__left"> <img alt="Caltech Logo" class="footer__left__caltech-wordmark" src="/static/theme7/img/caltech-new-logo.png"> <div class="footer__left__caltech-title">California Institute of Technology</div> </div> <div class="footer__right"> <img class="footer__right__map-marker" src="/static/theme7/img/icon-footerpin.png" alt="map marker"> <div class="footer__right__contact-info-row">1200 East California Boulevard</div> <div class="footer__right__contact-info-row">Pasadena, California 91125</div> </div> <nav class="footer__menu w-100 d-flex flex-wrap justify-content-center" aria-label="Footer"> <a class="footer__menu__link" href="https://www.caltech.edu/privacy-notice">Privacy Notice</a> <span class="footer__menu__link">Site content Copyright @ 2025</span> <a class="footer__menu__link footer__menu__link--login" href="/admin/login/">Log In</a> </nav> </div> </footer> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/anchor-js@5.0.0/anchor.min.js" integrity="sha256-aQmOEF2ZD4NM/xt4hthzREIo/2PFkOX/g01WjxEV7Ys=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script> anchors.options = { visible: 'touch', titleText: 'Right-click here and choose "Copy Link" to get a link to this part of the page.', } anchors.add(); </script> </body> </html>

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