Advanced Modeling and Simulations.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students with graduate standing in the School of Engineering or by permission of instructor. Use of finite element method to solve applied engineering problems at an advanced level. Special focus will be largely on solid mechanics and, to a lesser degree, on thermal problems. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, material and geometric nonlinearities, contact problems, dynamic problems and application of constraint equations. Commercially available finite element method software ANSYS will be utilized. Students will learn how to use ANSYS at an advanced level through utilizing commands and basic programming features.