Basic principles and laws application in the incompressible and compressible fluid flow.
Experimental aerodynamics, dimensionless similarity criteria used in the aerodynamics.
Basic flight performance and properties of the aircraft.
Aerodynamics of the profile, wings and aircraft at subsonic, transonic and supersonic flow.
Loads and stress of the aircraft structures.
Structural arrangement of the aircraft – wing, fuselage, tail surfaces, landing gear.
The strength and durability of the aircraft structures, fatigue failure, aeroelasticity.
Basic aircraft systems, control systems of the airplane.
Basic types of aircraft propulsion units and their properties, thrust and propulsive efficiency.
Structural arrangement of the turbojet and turbofan aircraft engine, basic properties and characteristics, thrust and power control systems of jet engines.
Sensors, signal processing and buses
Analog signal processing and digitization. Digital filter design. Numerical data processing methods. Signal modelling and classification, time series prediction.
Signals, Laplace, z- and Fourier transforms
Aircraft buses ARINC, CSDB, ASCB, MIL STD and others.
Transmission media. Overview of used transmission path, environment based selection. Metallic and optical communication channels.
Distributed system control. Network topology. Media access control. Data transfer security.
Sensors for measuring of geometrical quantities and navigation, sensors and transducers for measurement of vibration, velocity, mechanical strain
Sensors of pressure, flowrate, level, temperature, force and torque