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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

436-451 Advanced Computational Mechanics

Credit Points:

7.1

Coordinator:

Dr M. S. Chong

Prerequisite/s:

421-303 Mathematics for Engineers Unit 3.1

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

26 hours of lectures and 13 hours of practice classes

Objectives:

On completion students should be able to comprehend a wide variety of numerical computational techniques for solving ordinary and partial differential equations frequently encountered in engineering problems and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the various competing computational methods.

Content:

Modelling engineering systems using ordinary and partial differential equations; finite different schemes; finite element schemes; finite volume schemes; boundary element methods; vortex element methods; spectral and general basis function methods; chaotic behaviour of nonlinear systems; supercomputer architecture; vector and parallel processing.

Assessment:

A three-hour end-of-semester examination (60%); assignments to a maximum of 5000 words or equivalent on the computer (40%).
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