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This first part of the course Introduction to Aerospace Engineering presents an overall picture of the aeronautics domain. This overview involves a number of different perspectives on the aerospace domain, and shows some basic principles of the most important concepts for flight.
Then the basic aerodynamics are covered, followed by flight mechanics.

- Have an overview of the history of flight
- Apply basic/constitutive principles of mechanics of fluids - a.o. Bernoulli.
- Apply control volume approaches
- Explain flow regimes (viscous/non-viscous; compressible/incompressible aerodynamics) and to estimate viscous and thermal effects
- Compute lift/drag of simple configurations
- Describe reference frames and derive general equations of motion for flight and orbital mechanics
- Apply equations of motion to determine aircraft performance in steady gliding, horizontal and climbing flight
- Derive aircraft performance diagram and flight envelope, in relation to aircraft morphology, lift-drag polar and engine performance

Lectures

Introduction to Flight, by John D. Anderson; 6th edition; ISBN-13: 978-007-126318-4.
Handouts

Written exam

Together with the course "Introduction to Aerospace Engineering II" (AE1110-II) this course is strongly related to the Project "Exploring Aerospace Engineering" (AE1111-I) which is running parallel in the first semester.