As of Fall 2021, the Aeronautical Concentration is no longer available, instead the McGill Institute of Aerospace Engineering (MIAE) is offering Minor in Aerospace Engineering
The Aeronautical Concentration is comprised of five (5) courses.
Required Courses (6 credits)
Two of the five are the Required courses:
MECH 532
Aircraft Perform,Stablty&Cntl
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Aircraft performance criteria such as range, endurance, rate of climb, maximum ceiling for steady and accelerated flight. Landing and take-off distances. Static and dynamic stability in the longitudinal (stick-fixed and stick-free) and coupled lateral and directional modes. Control response for all three modes.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 533
Subsonic Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Kinematics: equations of motion; vorticity and circulation, conformal mapping and flow round simple bodies. Two-dimensional flow round aerofoils. Three-dimensional flows; high and low aspect-ratio wings; airscrews. Wind tunnel interference. Similarity rules for subsonic irrotational flows.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
Three additional courses from the list below:
MECH 535
Turbomachinery and Propulsion
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to propulsion: turboprops, turbofans and turbojets. Review of thermodynamic cycles. Euler turbine equation. Velocity triangles. Axial-flow compressors and pumps. Centrifugal compressors and pumps. Axial-flow turbines. Loss mechanisms. Dimensional analysis of turbomachines. Performance maps. 3-D effects. Introduction to numerical methods in turbomachines. Prediction of performance of gas turbines.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 536
Aerospace Structures
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Aircraft and spacecraft structural components and loads. Bending, shear, torsion and buckling of thin-walled open and closed sections. Structural idealization. Principle of stiffener / web construction. Trusses and isogrid structures. Wing spars and box beams. Fuselage frames and wing ribs. Analysis of riveted, bolted and
adhesive joints. Sandwich structures analysis. Thermoelasticity analysis for spacecraft structures.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 432.
MECH 537
Course not available
MECH 538
Course not available
MECH 539
Computational Aerodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Fundamental equations. Basic flow singularities. Boundary element methods. Source, doublet and vortex panel methods for 2D and 3D incompressible and compressible flows. Method of characteristics. Euler equations for inviscid rotational flows. Finite-difference and finite-volume methods. Explicit and implicit time-integration methods. Quasi 1D solutions. Nozzle and confined aerofoil applications.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 559
Eng. Systems Optimization
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to systems-oriented engineering design optimization. Emphasis on i) understanding and representing engineering systems and their structure, ii) obtaining, developing, and managing adequate computational (physics- and data-based) models for their analysis, iii) constructing appropriate design models for their synthesis, and iv) applying suitable algorithms for their numerical optimization while accounting for systems integration issues. Advanced topics such as coordination of distributed problems and non-deterministic design optimization methods.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
MECH 565
Fluid Flow &Heat Trans. Equip
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Pipes and piping systems, pumps, and valves. Fans and building air distribution systems. Basic thermal design methods for fins and heat exchangers. Thermal design of shell-and-tube and compact heat exchangers.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
MECH 566
Fluid-Structure Interactions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Pipes and cylindrical shells containing flow: fundamentals and applications in ocean mining, Coriolis mass-flow meters, heat exchangers, nuclear reactors and aircraft engines; chaos. Cylinders in axial flow and in cross-flow; vortex-shedding and galloping. Cylinder arrays in cross-flow; fluidelastic instabilities. Ovalling of chimneys.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
MECH 567
Struct Dyn of Turbomachines
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: Fundamentals of turbomachines from the standpoint of structural dynamics and vibration analysis, with preference given to aerospace applications involving
aircraft and helicopter engines. Topics include: introduction to the finite element method, aircraft/helicopter engines architecture and main components, general equations of motion in rotordynamics, advanced modal analysis, Campbell diagrams and critical rotational velocity, mistuning and cyclic symmetry, fluid-structure coupling, flutter analysis, high-cycle fatigue.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
MECH 579
Multidisciplinary Design Optim
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mechanical Engineering: A comprehensive introduction to important algorithms in sensitivity analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization of large systems. Topics include: unconstrained and constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis, gradient-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, and various multidisciplinary algorithms and approaches for design optimization.
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
* Students cannot get credit for both MECH 559 and MECH 579.
Note: Students should see their Academic Advisor and complete the Request for Course Authorization form to add this concentration.