General Aptitude | 15% | 10 | - |
Engineering Mathematics | 14% | 9 | Complex variable Probability density, limit, Determinant function |
Basics of Flight Mechanics | 8% | 5 | - |
Airplane Performance | 5% | 3 | Drag polar; take-off and landing; steady climb and descent; absolute and service ceiling; range and endurance, load factor, turning flight, V-n diagram. Winds: head, tail and crosswinds. |
Basic Fluid Mechanics | 8% | 5 | Conservation laws: Mass, momentum and energy (Integral and differential form); Dimensional analysis and dynamic similarity |
Airfoil and Wings | 9% | 6 | Airfoil nomenclature; Aerodynamic coefficients: lift, drag and moment; KuttaJoukoswki theorem; Thin airfoil theory, Kutta condition, starting vortex; Finite wing theory: Induced drag, Prandtl lifting line theory; Critical and drag divergence Mach number |
Compressible Flows | 5% | 3 | Basic concepts of compressibility, One-dimensional compressible flows, Isentropic flows, Fanno flow, Rayleigh flow; Normal and oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer flow; Flow through nozzles and diffusers. |
Strength of Materials | 8% | 5 | Stress and strain: Three-dimensional transformations, Mohr’s circle, principal stresses, Three-dimensional Hooke's law, Plane stress and strain. Failure theories: Maximum stress, Tresca von Mises. Strain energy. Castigliano’s principles. Statically determinate and indeterminate trusses and beams. Elastic flexural buckling of columns. |
Flight Vehicle Structures | 5% | 3 | Characteristics of aircraft structures and materials. Torsion, bending and shear of thin-walled sections. Loads on aircraft |
Structural Dynamics | 6% | 4 | Free and forced vibrations of undamped and damped SDOF systems. Free vibrations of undamped 2-DOF systems. |
Basics of Propulsion | 3% | 2 | Thermodynamics, boundary layers, heat transfer, combustion and thermochemistry |
Aerothermodynamics of Blade Engines | 6% | 4 | Thrust, efficiency, range. Brayton cycle. |
Turbomachinery | 5% | 3 | Axial compressors: Angular momentum, work and compression, characteristic performance of a single axial compressor stage, efficiency of the compressor and degree of reaction, multi-staging. |
Space Dynamics | 5% | 3 | Central force motion, determination of trajectory and orbital period in simple cases. Kepler’s laws; escape velocity. |
