Week - 1 |
Overview of Aircraft Design: History of aircraft design, evolution of aircraft types and technologies, key milestones in aviation history |
Week - 2 |
Overview of Aircraft Design: Basic aerodynamics, fundamental principles of aerodynamics, aircraft performance metrics |
Week - 3 |
Conceptual Design: Defining mission requirements, preliminary design and trade-offs, design specifications and constraints |
Week - 4 |
Competitor study, initial sizing estimates |
Week - 5 |
Selection of airfoil and geometry |
Week - 6 |
Thrust-to-weight ratio and wing loading |
Week - 7 |
Initial sizing, configuration layout |
Week - 8 |
Propulsion and fuel system integration |
Week - 9 |
Propulsion and fuel system integration |
Week - 10 |
Landing gear and subsystems |
Week - 11 |
Structural design and material selection |
Week - 12 |
Design of basic aircraft components |
Week - 13 |
Detailed design analysis and optimization, systems engineering and integration |
Week - 14 |
Computational methods and simulations |