Outline of Lecture Sessions

• Fundamental Concepts in Continuum Mechanics
• Approximate Formulation by Rayleigh-Ritz Method and Galerkin Method
• Finite Element Modeling
• Finite volume method
• Finite difference method
• Boundary element method
• Linear Elastic Solids (Hookean Solids)
• Linear Viscous Fluids (Newtonian Fluids)
• Plasticity
• Statics versus Dynamical problems
• Linear versus Nonlinear Problems
• Nonlinear Elastic Materials (Mooney-Rivlin)
• Non-Newtonian Fluids
• Mesh Generation
• Time Integration and Numerical Stability