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Originally Posted by Vman455
Why do you presume I'm entering as a first-year? 
UIUC has several student motorsports teams for which aerodynamics is a primary focus, including a solar car, Supermileage car, Shell Ecomarathon car, and Formula SAE. The aerospace curriculum includes incompressible flows, compressible flows, viscous flows and heat transfer, aeroelasticity, computational aerodynamics, and applied aerodynamics. I'm excited for the opportunity to get as much hands-on experience as I can to complement and expand on what I've already been doing on my own.  |
That's good to hear. You've easily got enough time in for a master's. Seems like cutting you at least a two - year break or somethin' would be considerate.
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That's really funny about solar, Supermileage, SHELL, and SAE.
The website mentions 'motorsports' as if it were just a footnote, from some previous, random research. I would think that the department might play that up their automotive activities some. The only reason I ever went to school was to learn about automotive-related engineering. 'Solar' didn't even exist until seven years after I graduated.
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* As far as car stuff is concerned, I would think that the 'incompressible' flow regime fluids would be the most applicable, unless you're gonna get into transonic speeds.
* Viscous flows, ditto, 'cause that's what we drive in.
* Computational aerodynamics is ( has been ) the future. Love it!
* Applied aero, especially if they get off into automotive material.
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All of it sounds great.