Introduction to Aircraft Design

By Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant | IIT Bombay

Learners enrolled: 2447

This course is designed to provide students an understanding of procedure followed in conceptual design of an aircraft, meeting the user-specified design requirements and safety considerations specified by the aircraft certification agencies.

The students will be exposed to types of aircraft and their features, requirements capture, configuration selection, initial sizing, determination of aerodynamic coefficients, constraint analysis, types of loads, V-n diagram, Range-Payload diagram, and Life Cycle Cost analysis.

A special feature of this course will be a series of tutorials which will run all along the course to give the participants a practical feel of conceptual sizing and of an existing civil transport aircraft.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Automobile Engineering

PREREQUISITES : Introduction to Aerospace Engineering, Flight Mechanics

INDUSTRIES SUPPORT : HAL, NAL, Mahindra Aerospace, ADE, ADA, Airbus, Boeing

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Aerospace Engineering Flight Mechanics
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	26 Jul 2021
End Date :	15 Oct 2021
Enrollment Ends :	09 Aug 2021
Exam Date :	23 Oct 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Aircraft Design & Requirements Capture

Week 2: Design Considerations in Airliners, Cargo, and SST

Week 3: Design Considerations in GA and Military Aircraft

Week 4: Aircraft Configuration Design

Week 5: Aircraft Layout Choices

Week 6: Initial Sizing

Week 7: Estimation of Lift Coefficient

Week 8: Estimation of subsonic parasite drag coefficient

Week 9: Constraint Analysis of Military Aircraft

Week 10:Constraint Analysis of Transport Aircraft

Week 11: Aircraft Loads and V-n Diagram

Week 12:Cost Estimation in Aircraft Design

Teaching Assistant
Nouman Uddin

Nouman Uddin currently working as a Project Research Assistant at Lighter-than-Air Systems Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering Department, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India under ISRO sponsored project. He has completed his B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow in 2020, and was consistently in the top student of his class during the four years of his B.Tech. He did a one-month summer training at ADRDE, DRDO in Agra, followed by a two-month project work at IIT Bombay. Later, he was selected as a Research Intern under the "IRCC Research Internship Award 2019-20" at IIT Bombay, where he worked on the Design of a Test Rig for a Phase Change based Lighter-than-Air System. He has cleared nine NPTEL exams under the domain of Aerospace Engineering. NPTEL recognizes as NPTEL Superstar, NPTEL Enthusiast, and NPTEL Discipline Star in Aerospace Engineering for the performance in December 2020. He also has been the Teaching Assistant for the course on "Lighter-than-Air Systems" in the past semester and Teaching Assistant for the two coursesnamely “Introduction to Aerospace Engineering” and “Introduction to Aircraft Design” in the current semester at NPTEL, IIT Bombay. He is a coordinator for the Fourth National Aerospace Conceptual Design Competition (aka NACDeC-IV). He received “Special recognition” for “Academic Excellence Award” in Students- UG (National) category” presented by the Institution of Engineers, India.He presented four research papers at International Conferences, one of which received the best paper award.

Shashwat Trivedi

Shashwat Trivedi completed his Dual Degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur (IITK) in 2017. During that time, he did a month summer training at ADE, DRDO in Bangalore and a two month research internship at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. He was the coordinator of the Society of Automotive Engineers IITK student chapter and contributed in developing the suspension of a Formula Student racing car. Later, he worked in a start-up incubated in IITK as a design and simulation engineer for one year and designed a novel water filtration system. He also worked in IITK on a project funded by Indian Railways studying undulations during the manufacturing of side-wallsfor railiway coaches. Currently, he is a PhD scholar at IIT Bombay working on propulsion systems for high altitude airships and application of AI and ML in aerodynamic shape optimization of airship envelope.

Books and references

Raymer, D. P., Aircraft Design - A Conceptual Approach, AIAA Educational Series, 4th Ed., 2006.
Leland M. Nicolai and Grant E. Carichner, Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design Volume I – Aircraft Design, AIAA Education Series, 2010
Brandt, S. A., Stiles, R. J., Bertin, J. J., Whitford, R., Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective, AIAA Educational Series, 2nd ed., 2004
Jenkinson, L. R., Simpkin, P. and Rhodes, D., Civil Jet Aircraft Design, Arnold Publishers, London, 1999.
Fielding, J., Introduction to Aircraft Design, Cambridge Aerospace Series, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant

IIT Bombay

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering. His areas of specialization include Aircraft Conceptual Design, Air Transportation, and Optimization. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, and PEC Chandigarh where he underwent his undergraduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3.5 years) and Nasik (1.5 years) Divisions. He has published and presented ~ 220 scientific papers, of which ~ 170 are in international journals and conferences. He has also visited several top ranking institutes and universities all over the world. Prof. Pant was a Visiting Professor at School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2015-16, visiting faculty at Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2010-11, and a visiting researcher at Instituto Tecnolgico de Aeronutica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. In November 2012, he was appointed as a Special Visiting Researcher under the Science Without Borders program of the Brazilian Government for three years

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 23 October 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Bombay.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

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