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Term:    Spring Text: Finite Elements Computational Engineering Sciences, A.J. Baker (2012)
Course No.:    ME 452w Refs: select undergraduate mechanics texts
 Instructor:     Dr. A. J. Baker Time:  anytime - online!
 
class date topics courseware text Ch. prob due lab due
 
JAN 9  Website tour, course requirements, content, grading, schedule, labs, reporting, comp.engr. sciences intro. FE.1-5 1        
14  Problem statements in engineering, DM, DP, DE, physics closure, PDE+BCs PS.1-12 2      L-1  
16  Heat conduction, GWSh for DE,n =1,FE form, BCs, accuracy, convergence. HC.1-12 4  P-1      
21  DE study problem, Matlab computer lab, GWSh, online reporting HC.13-15 4, 5      L-2  L-1
23  Steady heat transfer, convection, radiation BCs, IC engine cylinder HT1.1-7 5, 6  P-2       
28 
IC engine cylinder, Matlab computer lab, online reporting HT1.7-11 6    P-1  L-3  
30 

Multi-dimensional heat transfer, DP, DE,non-D groups, mixed convection, element geometries, FE formulation

HTn.1-8 5, 7        L-2
FEB 4  Mixed convection on cylinder, buoyancy, COMSOL design study HTn.9 11    P-2  L-4  
COMSOL design study completion HTn.9 11        L-3
10  11  Structural mechanics, beam, column, dP forms, Euler-Bernoulli & Timoshenko FE formulations SM1.1-6 5  P-3      
11  13  Euler-Bernoulli, Timoshenko beams, Matlab computer lab SM1.6 5      L-5  L-4
12  18  Multi-dimensional structural mechanics, DP, DE for elasticity, FE implementation, stiffness & load matrices SMn.1-5 11  P-4  P-3    
13  20  GWSh structural mechanics, plane stress/strain, FE matrices, template SMn.6-10 11        L-5
14  25  Plane stress, plate in tension with hole, COMSOL design study SMn.10-11 11    P-4  L-6   
15  27  Mechanical vibrations, dP for spring-damper-mass for 1 and >1 DOF systems, time integration, Lagrangian, normal mode solution MV1.1-6  P-5      
16  MAR 4  Mechanical vibrations, continuum systems, Lagrangian, GWSh for vibrating E-B beam MVn.1-8 5        L-6
17  Vibrating E-B beam, GWSh, FE Hermite basis, normal mode solution, Matlab computer lab MVn.8-10 5      L-7  
18  11  L-shaped membrane, FE normal mode solutions, COMSOL design study MVn.10-11 11      L-8  
19  13  Fluid mechanics, laminar, DM, DP, DE, non-D, simplifications, aerodynamics FM.1-7 2  P-6  P-5    L-7
   18  Spring Break - no class            
   20  Spring Break - no class            
20  25  Aerodynamics, potential flow, Matlab computer lab, boundary layer flow, turbulence FM.7-14 5      L-9  
21  27  Navier-Stokes, laminar, incompressible stream-function vorticity, BCs, GWSN FM.15-23 11          L-8
22  APR 1  NS(omega, psi), GWSh, Newton, step-wall diffuser, COMSOL design study FM.23 11        L-10  L-9
23  Unsteady scalar transport, DE,  GWSN, time integration, GWSh, error estimates ST1.1-1.7 9  P-7  P-6    
24  Steady ST, Pe problem, unsteady ST, traveling wave, Matlab computer lab ST1.8-1.9 9      L-11  L-10
25  10  Multi-dimensional unsteady heat/mass transport, GWSh, dispersion error control STn.1-7 9, 10        
26  15  n-D scalar transport, Pe problem, rotating cone, Matlab computer lab  STn.8-11 10      L-12  L-11
27  17  Conjugate heat-mass transport, COMSOL computer lab STn.12 11    P-7  L-13  L-12
28  22  Course content summary SU.1-14          
29  24  student assessment,
Take-home final exam
         L-13
30   May 6  Final exam due mounted by midnight            
 
 

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