MECH&AE 150C
Combustion Systems
Description: Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Enforced requisites: courses 103, 105A. Chemical thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures, premixed and diffusion flames, explosions and detonations, combustion chemistry, high explosives. Combustion processes in rocket, turbine, and internal combustion engines; heating applications. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2009 - Professor Smith made an OBVIOUS and BRUTAL Mistake during this class ! He does not understand the basic of dynamics! In the design project, the airplane we designed was too small to overcome the torque generated by the engine and the only two solutions (which I suggested to him): 1. Was to use two motor spin counter clockwise of each other. He rejected that by saying that would cost too much ! (LMFAO) 2. Use a wing with much larger wing span to resist the torque. He once again rejected my suggestion by saying that the wind tunnel was too small to accommodate that ! (ROFL) In the end, I had no choice but to do a complex CFD analysis and full CAD model to demonstrate my points. BTW, none of the students made a plane that can take off and fly for more than 2 seconds before spinning out of control, crash and burn ! I got my A in the class, but HATED this professor. He is rude, unintelligent and not care about this class and students ! Avoid him at all cost !
Spring 2009 - Professor Smith made an OBVIOUS and BRUTAL Mistake during this class ! He does not understand the basic of dynamics! In the design project, the airplane we designed was too small to overcome the torque generated by the engine and the only two solutions (which I suggested to him): 1. Was to use two motor spin counter clockwise of each other. He rejected that by saying that would cost too much ! (LMFAO) 2. Use a wing with much larger wing span to resist the torque. He once again rejected my suggestion by saying that the wind tunnel was too small to accommodate that ! (ROFL) In the end, I had no choice but to do a complex CFD analysis and full CAD model to demonstrate my points. BTW, none of the students made a plane that can take off and fly for more than 2 seconds before spinning out of control, crash and burn ! I got my A in the class, but HATED this professor. He is rude, unintelligent and not care about this class and students ! Avoid him at all cost !
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Winter 2023 - This class was very interesting. I took this as an elective, but was not ready for the MATLAB coding that used in the homework (as I never took the class for it). The TA’s tried to be very helpful with the code, I emailed and went to every office hour and was able to do the homework’s. Homework depending on how much coding there was could take between 2-4 hours, and the textbook and discussion sections were essential to doing them. The professor had great lecturers and multiple ways to get extra credit throughout the course. Each lecture there is an online poll which gives extra credit points. Also at the end of the quarter completing the evaluations and doing a report gives extra credit. Although I did not do well on the exams, there was a curve and with the extra credit gave me enough points to make up for what I missed. Overall I enjoyed the professor and the material, and both him and the TA’s made this class well worth the effort. Yi (my TA) is the goat!!
Winter 2023 - This class was very interesting. I took this as an elective, but was not ready for the MATLAB coding that used in the homework (as I never took the class for it). The TA’s tried to be very helpful with the code, I emailed and went to every office hour and was able to do the homework’s. Homework depending on how much coding there was could take between 2-4 hours, and the textbook and discussion sections were essential to doing them. The professor had great lecturers and multiple ways to get extra credit throughout the course. Each lecture there is an online poll which gives extra credit points. Also at the end of the quarter completing the evaluations and doing a report gives extra credit. Although I did not do well on the exams, there was a curve and with the extra credit gave me enough points to make up for what I missed. Overall I enjoyed the professor and the material, and both him and the TA’s made this class well worth the effort. Yi (my TA) is the goat!!
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