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16.003 Unified Engin: Fluid Dynamics
This course presents fundamental principles and methods of fluid dynamics for aerospace engineering, and engineering analysis and design concepts applied to aerospace systems. Topics include aircraft and aerodynamic performance, conservation laws for fluid flows, quasi-one-dimensional compressible flows, shock and expansion waves, streamline curvature, potential flow modeling, an introduction to three-dimensional wings and induced drag. Lab and aerospace system projects provide additional aerospace context. The course follows the online MITx content Introduction to Aerodynamics. In addition to reading, this online content has hundreds of auto-graded problems including solution videos which will be very useful to help you learn. An organization of the online content is described here.