Aircraft Flight Mechanics

ID: 3675
Course type: scientific and vocational
Course coordinator: Peković M. Ognjen
Lecturers: Peković M. Ognjen
Contact: Peković M. Ognjen
Level of studies: Ph.D. (Doctoral) studies – Mechanical Engineering
ECTS: 5
Final exam type: oral

Lectures

Goal

Course introduces students to the problems related to complex motions of modern high-speed aircrafts in atmospheric and orbital flight. Performance and extreme maneuvers of aircraft will be studied.

Outcome

The student will gain enough theoretical knowledge to independently and creatively determine the extreme performance capabilities of modern high-speed aircraft, as well as identify all the flight capability limitations that arise from them.

Theoretical teaching

Problems of atmospheric and orbital flight mechanics at supersonic and hypersonic speeds. Performance of supersonic aircraft. Aircraft performance calculations based on energy methods. Optimal climbing program using the total energy method, steepest climbing, minimum fuel consumption. The effect of external stores on aircraft performance. Super-maneuvering characteristics of fighter planes. Agility of fighter planes. Flight envelopes and V-n diagrams of combat aircraft. Analysis of tall and spins. Aircraft characteristics in spins. Spin recovery. Flight mechanics of UAVs and their flight envelopes

Practical teaching

Flight modeling and simulation in the MATLAB and Simulink software packages. Simulation of flight parameters in wind tunnels.

Attendance requirement

There are no special conditions.

Resources

The necessary additional materials (handouts, project and seminar paper assignments, etc.) are given in the electronic form to students in direct contact.

Assigned hours

Total assigned hours: 65

Active teaching (theoretical)

New material: 40
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Active teaching (practical)

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Knowledge test

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 5
Test: 0
Test: 0
Final exam: 10

Knowledge test (100 points total)

Activity during lectures: 0
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 60
Final exam: 40
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 60

Literature

Z. Rendulić, Mechanics of Flight, Belgrade, VINC 1987; M. Nenadović, Aircraft Stability and Control, Part I and II, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, 1981