NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Aircraft Design (Aerospace Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rajkumar Pant


Lecture 1 - What is Aircraft Design

Lecture 2 - Aircraft Design Process

Lecture 3 - Design Stages

Lecture 4 - Phases in Aircraft Design

Lecture 5 - The Design Spiral

Lecture 6 - Importance of Cost in Aircraft Design

Lecture 7 - Basic Laws of Aircraft Design

Lecture 8 - Requirements Capture

Lecture 9 - Quality Function Deployment

Lecture 10 - House of Quality Chart

Lecture 11 - Example of HoQ for HALE UAV

Lecture 12 - Illustration of HOQ-GA aircraft

Lecture 13 - Airliners

Lecture 14 - Key Issues in Design of Airliners

Lecture 15 - Design Considerations - Future Airliners

Lecture 16 - Supersonic Transport Aircraft

Lecture 17 - Airliner and Supersonic Aircraft, some additional concepts

Lecture 18 - Design Considerations - Cargo Aircraft

Lecture 19 - Design Considerations - GA Aircraft

Lecture 20 - Types of Military Aircraft

Lecture 21 - Cargo, GA and Military Aircraft, Some additional concepts

Lecture 22 - Aircraft Configuration Design

Lecture 23 - Podded Engines on Wings

Lecture 24 - Wing Sweep

Lecture 25 - Canards and Flying Wing

Lecture 26 - Three Surface Aircraft

Lecture 27 - Winglets

Lecture 28 - Thrust Vectoring

Lecture 29 - Few Novel Concepts_01

Lecture 30 - Aircraft Configuration Design - Closing Remarks

Lecture 31 - Choices in Aircraft Layout

Lecture 32 - Wing Geometry Definitions

Lecture 33 - Options for Wing layout

Lecture 34 - Propulsion System Layout

Lecture 35 - Tail Plane Layout

Lecture 36 - Landing Gear Layout - Part 1

Lecture 37 - Landing Gear Layout - Part 2

Lecture 38 - Landing Gear of some Famous Aircraft

Lecture 39 - Tutorial on OpenVSP

Lecture 40 - Initial Sizing in Aircraft Design

Lecture 41 - Estimation of Empty Weight Fraction

Lecture 42 - Estimation of Mission Segment Weights

Lecture 43 - Estimation of Fuel Weight Fractions

Lecture 44 - Estimation of maximum L/D

Lecture 45 - Estimation of engine parameters

Lecture 46 - Estimation of Design gross weight

Lecture 47 - Take-off weight build up

Lecture 48 - Tutorial on Initial Sizing of Transport Aircraft

Lecture 49 - Tutorial on Initial Sizing of Military Aircraft

Lecture 50 - Subsonic Parasite Drag Estimation

Lecture 51 - Component Buildup Method

Lecture 52 - Drag Estimation of Military Aircraft

Lecture 53 - Tutorial on Drag Polar Estimation of Military Aircraft

Lecture 54 - Estimation of Lift Coefficient

Lecture 55 - Estimation of Maximum Lift Coefficient

Lecture 56 - Flaps as High Lift Devices

Lecture 57 - Tutorial on Lift Coefficient Estimation of Transport Aircraft

Lecture 58 - Tutorial on Lift Coefficient Estimation of Military Aircraft

Lecture 59 - Constraint Analysis- Introductory Remarks

Lecture 60 - Constraint Analysis- Transport Aircraft - Part 1

Lecture 61 - Constraint Analysis- Transport Aircraft - Part 2

Lecture 62 - Tutorial on Constraint Analysis of Transport Aicraft - Part 1

Lecture 63 - Tutorial on Constraint Analysis of Transport Aicraft - Part 2

Lecture 64 - Constraint Analysis- Military Aircraft

Lecture 65 - Tutorial on Constraint Analysis of Military Aicraft - Part 1

Lecture 66 - Tutorial on Constraint Analysis of Military Aicraft - Part 2

Lecture 67 - Refined Sizing

Lecture 68 - Tutorial on Refined Sizing of Jet Fighter Aircraft

Lecture 69 - Cost Estimation in Aircraft Conceptual Design

Lecture 70 - Aircraft Life Cycle Cost Estimation

Lecture 71 - Tutorial on RDT&E and Production Cost Estimation of Transport Aircraft

Lecture 72 - Tutorial on DT&E and Production Cost Estimation of HALE UAV

Lecture 73 - Estimation of Direct Operating Cost

Lecture 74 - Fighter Aircraft Life Cycle Cost Estimation Model

Lecture 75 - Range Payload Diagram - Part 1

Lecture 76 - Range Payload Diagram - Part 2

Lecture 77 - Tutorial on Range Payload Diagram of Transport Aircraft

Lecture 78 - Environmental issues in Aircraft Design

Lecture 79 - Limit Manoeuvre Envelope

Lecture 80 - Effect of Gust

Lecture 81 - Aircraft Loads

Lecture 82 - Tutorial on V-n Diagram of Transport Aircraft

Lecture 83 - High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Aircraft

Lecture 84 - Morphing of Aircraft Configurations

Lecture 85 - Guest Lecture on Air Power and Multi-role Fighter Aircraft - Part 1

Lecture 86 - Guest Lecture on Air Power and Multi-role Fighter Aircraft - Part 2