Teaching

New York Institute of Technology

• Propulsion/Advanced Propulsion (Spring '24)
  Review of fluid mechanics principles including shock waves. Details of air-breathing  propulsion including analysis of diffusers and nozzles, compressors and turbines, and  combustion processes. Overall vehicle analysis treating turbojets, turbofans, turboprops,  ramjets. Discussion of rocket performance.

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• Advanced thermodynamics (Fall '23)
  Properties of pure substance, basic definitions of thermodynamics terms. Ideal gas equation and other equations of state. First and second laws of thermodynamic efficiency, reversible work and irreversibility. Gas and vapor mixtures, chemical reactions and the combustion process. Chemical equilibrium, Gibbs phase rule and simultaneous reactions.  Maxwell equations and generalized charts.

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• Heat transfer (Fall '23, Spring '24)
  Steady-state conduction; unsteady-state heat conduction; mathematical, graphical empirical and numerical methods of analysis. Principles of convection, numerical methods of analysis. Principles of convection, dimensionless numbers. Forced convection. Natural convection. Radiation heat transfer. Heat exchangers.

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New York University Tandon School of Engineering

• Linear Control Theory I (Fall '22, Spring '23)
  This course presents the theory of linear systems, with a focus on traditional topics in classical control theory, and application to mechanical systems. Topics include state space representation and analysis, stability, control systems design, controllability, observability, realizability, and linear state feedback.