Hongtao Zhong

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

MAE 335 Fluid Dynamics
Princeton University, 2020 - 2021 Fall

• Instructor: Professor Daniel M. Nosenchuck

•   Syllabus

  Part 1: Compressible Inviscid Flow
  concept of compressibility, propagation of small disturbances (sound speed), normal shocks, oblique shocks and expansions, compressible flows through nozzles, diffusers and wind tunnels, unsteady effects, heat addition and friction
  Part 2: Incompressible Inviscid Flow
  potential flow theory (potential and streamfunctions), vorticity and circulation, thin-airfoil and finite-wing theory, basic forces on aircraft (lift and drag) and force distributions (moments)

MAE 426 Rocket and Air-Breathing Propulsion Technology
Princeton University, 2019 - 2020 Spring

• Instructor: Professor Yiguang Ju

•   Syllabus

  1. Principles of jet propulsion: thrust and rocket equations
  2. Space mission and Mars maneuver
  3. Review of thermaldynamics, chemical equilibrium, and compressible flow
  4. Rocket nozzle design
  5. Liquid rocket fundamentals, mono-propellant and bi-propellant, combustion instability
  6. Turbopump
  7. Solid rocket and propellants
  8. Nuclear rockets, electrical propulsion
  9. Hypersonic propulsion, ramjet/scramjet engine
  10. Air breathing engines

MAE 221 Thermodynamics
Princeton University, 2019 - 2020 Fall

• Instructor: Professor Lamyaa El-Gabry

•   Syllabus

  1. Thermodynamics concepts and definitions
  2. Properties
  3. First law of thermodynamics
  4. Second law of thermodynamics
  5. Internal combustion engines
  6. Gas turbine cycle
  7. Jet propulsion cycle
  8. Rankine cycle
  9. Refrigeration and heat pump systems

MAE 340 Junior Independent Work
Princeton University, 2018 - 2019 Spring

• Instructor: Professor Luigi Martinelli