MSc Race Car Aerodynamics

Postgraduate

In Southampton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
This postgraduate masters course emphasises the fundamentals of aerodynamics as a subject by focusing on analysis, computation and measurement of turbulent flows associated with high performance race cars. It will suit graduates or similarly qualified individuals from engineering, scientific and mathematical backgrounds, with some experience of fluid dynamics who are aiming for advanced specialisation in aerodynamics.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Credit

Course programme

Year 1

The first 8 months are normally spent mainly on the taught component, with lectures divided into two 12-week periods (semesters 1 and 2), and with exams at the end of each semester. You will select a total of 30 credit points from the list below. The final 4 months are spent full-time on a research project.

Semester One

Additionally to the compulsory modules, you normally take 1 or 2 optional modules in semester 1.

Compulsory

FEEG6005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applications of CFD

SESA6038Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Race Car Design/GDP

SESA6061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Turbulence: Physics and modelling

SESA6070Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Experimental Methods for Aerodynamics

Optional

SESM3031Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Automobile Systems

FEEG6002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Advanced Computational Methods I

MATH6141Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Numerical Methods

SESA6067Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Flow Control

FEEG6006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Systems Reliability

SESA6077Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Aeroelasticity

Semester Two

Additionally to the compulsory modules, you normally take 1 or 2 optional modules in semester 2.

Compulsory

SESA6038Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Race Car Design/GDP

SESA6072Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Race Car Aerodynamics

Optional

SESA3033Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Wing Aerodynamics

FEEG6003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Advanced Computational Methods II

SESM6037Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Automotive Propulsion

FEEG6009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Design Search and Optimisation (DSO) - Principles, Methods, Parameterizations and Case Studies

Additional information

Study Locations: and Highfield Campus

MSc Race Car Aerodynamics

Price on request