Academic Catalog

ME582 FINITE ELEMENT ANALY. IN THERMOFLUIDS

Course Code: 5690582
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. CÜNEYT SERT
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Variational techniques, method of weighted residuals, Ritz method, Galerkins technique. Review of 2-D finite elements. Lubrication problems. Heat transfer problems. Inviscid incompressible flows, inviscid compressible flows, incompressible viscous flows without inertia and incompressible viscous flows with inertia. 3-D isoparametric finite elements. 3-D unsteady Euler equations.