MEC551

Course Description

course provides a brief review of the variational, residual methods and Galerkin FE formulation methods, and then develops the Galerkin formulation in the application of conduction heat transfer with radiation and convection boundary conditions. Both steady state and transient conditions will be considered. Direct time integration schemes, treatment of nonlinearities, accuracy and convergence characteristics will be discussed. In the second area of application, the course provides a unified theoretical treatment for the formulation of the finite element, finite volume and finite difference methods in fluid dynamics. The formulation is presented for general engineering problems in incompressible fluid mechanics and convection diffusion analyses. The course is aimed at giving students an overview of the use, limitations and applications of various numerical techniques in the above fields. The use of a commercial program (ANSYS, FLUENT) in a project type of work will provide the students

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