207 Spencer Lab, 831-8160, lwang@udel.edu

Office hours: Tue & Thurs 3:00pm - 5:00pm or by appointment

Meeting Time and Place: Tues and Thurs: 9:30AM-10:45AM, eCALC-I, 046 Colburn Lab
 

Catalog Description: Overview of numerical modelings in continuum mechanics.  Case studies in fluid and solid mechanics using commercially available software packages.

Course Philosophy and Objectives: Solve complex engineering problems of interest to the students with commercial software packages and use this as a way to review and consolidate fundamental knowledge in engineering mechanics.  This also allows students to explore common features, capabilities, and limitations of these application packages.

Course Coverage and Format:  The course consists of lectures and hands-on computer sessions. The lectures will review basic principles of continuum mechanics applied to solids and fluids, different mathematical formulations of these principles, discrete representations (finite element method, finite volume method, finite difference method, etc.), numerical methods for solving a discrete system, problem recognition, and system conceptualization. The hands-on computer sessions will introduce students to two commercial software packages ANSYS (for solid/structural, fluid/thermal problems) and FIDAP/FLUENT (for fluid mechanics and thermal problems).  Example problems will be solved together at these sessions.

Homework problems will be assigned, graded and returned on a biweekly basis. A midterm exam will be given. There will be no final exam. During the fifth or sixth week, each student will be assigned a computer project. A written report and a final presentation are required for the computer project.

Resource Material:

1. Required Text: The Finite Element Method and Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS. E. Madenci and I. Guven, Springer, 2006.

2. Class lecture notes and handouts at https://www.udel.edu/mycourses/ (always check online for updates)  

3. Handbook of Computational Solid Mechanics. M. Kleiber (Ed.), 1998, Springer, on reserve in Morris library, Call# TA 350 .H225 1998.

4. Handbook of Computational Fluid Mechanics. Roger Peyret (Ed.), 1996, Academic Press, on reserve in Morris library, Call# QA 911 .H36x 1996.

5. The Finite Element Method - Basic concepts and applications, by D.W. Pepper & J.C. Heinrich (1992), Hemisphere Pub. Corp., on reserve in Morris library, Call# TA 347.F5 P46 1992

Grading Policy:

Homework 30%

Midterm exam 30%

Computer Project 20%

Class attendance and participation 20%
 

Final Project presentation: Date and place to be arranged.