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 |
1 | JAN 9 | Website tour, course requirements, content, grading, schedule, labs, reporting, comp.engr. sciences intro. | FE.1-5 | 1 | ||||
2 | 14 | Problem statements in engineering, DM, DP, DE, physics closure, PDE+BCs | PS.1-12 | 2 | L-1 | |||
3 | 16 | Heat conduction, GWSh for DE,n =1,FE form, BCs, accuracy, convergence. | HC.1-12 | 4 | P-1 | |||
4 | 21 | DE study problem, Matlab computer lab, GWSh, online reporting | HC.13-15 | 4, 5 | L-2 | L-1 | ||
5 | 23 | Steady heat transfer, convection, radiation BCs, IC engine cylinder | HT1.1-7 | 5, 6 | P-2 | |||
6 | 28 |
IC engine cylinder, Matlab computer lab, online reporting | HT1.7-11 | 6 | P-1 | L-3 | ||
7 | 30 |
Multi-dimensional heat transfer, DP, DE,non-D groups, mixed convection, element geometries, FE formulation |
HTn.1-8 | 5, 7 | L-2 | |||
8 | FEB 4 | Mixed convection on cylinder, buoyancy, COMSOL design study | HTn.9 | 11 | P-2 | L-4 | ||
9 | 6 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | Unsteady scalar transport, DE, GWSN, time integration, GWSh, error estimates | ST1.1-1.7 | 9 | P-7 | P-6 | ||
24 | 8 | 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 |