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Numerical Methods

This lecture provides a practice-oriented introduction in numerical and computational methods for simulating continuum mechanical problems, like they occure typically in engineering applications. The application of these methods gain in importance in industrial practice. The lecture imparts knowledge about the fundamentals in modelling, discretizing schemes and solving algorithms, just as the for practical usage important questions of accuracy, costs and efficiency. The important industrial domains of fluid and structural mechanics are handled as well as heat transfer problems.

From the Content

  • Basics of continuum mechanical modelling, simple field problems
  • Finite volume methods, discretization of convective and diffusive fluxes, Galerkin method, finite element methods, simple elements and shape functions.
  • Time discretization, explicit and implicit approaches
  • Characteristics of numerical solvers, stability, consistence, convergence, conservatism and error estimation

Details

Lecture name: Numerical methods
Term: Summer
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. M. Schäfer
Responsible assistant: M. Edelbluth, M.Sc.
Start of lectures: expected April 17th 2024
Lecture dates: expected Wednesdays 12:35 – 14:15h
Room: presumably L4|02 1
Credit points: 4
Examination: written examination
Next examination date: March 6th, 2024
Related tutorial: Numerical methods tutorial

Recommended literature

Title: Computational Engineering – Introduction to Numerical Methods Edition: 2nd Edition Author: Michael Schäfer Publisher: © Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 2022 ISBN: 978-3-540-30685-6

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Information on the Exam

The exam will take place in presence on March 6th 2024 from 12:30 – 14:30 in building L4|02 room 201+202 for all students who registered for this

Further information about the exam are available in the PDF document NBV exam information winter term 23/24 (opens in new tab) .