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Internet provides the totally time- and distance-insensitive venue for academic outreach. Examine the following to ascertain their potential for meeting your needs in your time frame. Finite Element Analysis - ME 452w: An upper division undergraduate course introducing finite element analysis basics leading to computing practices. Finite element methods convert engineering conservation principles with physics closure models into "computable form" via weak form theory. ME 452w may be taken for credit or audit or for transfer credit by non-UT students admitted to their home university. It may also be taken for professional self-study directly through CFD Laboratory (touch Collaboratory). Your home site need have only a respectable PC with free software and a 56Kb Internet connection. All course lectures are digitally archived, hence those missed or desired reviewed are available at anytime! Check out the open front end. Computational Engineering Sciences - ES 551w: A thorough graduate-level exposition to weak form methods for multi-disciplinary applications in the engineering sciences. Course focus is on mathematical underpinnings hence comparative assessment of finite element / difference / volume discrete implementations via computer practice for solution quality assessments. Piped directly to your home or office, you need to have only a decent PC with sound card, Real Player and connection to Internet. The course is complete with built-in courseware, random-accessible archived lectures via video-streaming, computer lab experiments archive. It's available anytime and anyplace for professional self-study, or in fall semester in a classroom environment. Check out the open front end. Matrix Methods - ChE 507: This course presents the fundamental principals of matrix algebra methods applied in engineering systems analysis. The course will covers LU, QR, SVD and eigen decomposition of a matrix, and the role each plays in the solution of engineering problem statements. The approach employs geometric understanding and physical interpretation of linear algebra manipulations as applied to analysis of a system, and its multivariate data, with respect to the degrees of freedom, input-output sensitivity, and process operability. Computational Fluid Dynamics - ES 552w: US industry has a burgeoning need for engineers truly skilled in application of computational fluid dynamics and numerical heat transfer (CFD) methods to engineering design. And, they are willing to pay for your training! Ordinarily one would attend a one week short course, or a commercial code training course, to get underway. Now, via Internet video streaming, you have available a thorough first-level graduate course in modern CFD/NHT methodology, ported directly to your home or office! The course is complete with built-in text courseware, random-accessible archived lectures, and computational experiments via the CFD Lab aPSE (a Problem Solving Environment) code. Help form your decision by reviewing the course open front end. Advanced Topics in Turbulence - ES 645w: Mathematical foundations for turbulence characterization, energy spectra, Kolmogorov stress tensor, eddy cascade structures, turbulent diffusion. Time averaging, Reynolds stress tensor, similarity solutions, algebraic and differential turbulence closure models for CFD. Space filtering, large eddy simulation, Gaussian filter approximations, Fourier transforms, Reynolds stress tensor extensions; Smagorinsky, multi-scale closure models for LES time-accurate CFD. Applications in external and internal flows with various computer projects. Check out the front end. CFD - a 3hr shortcourse: Originally developed for ASHRAE engineers interested in CFD prediction of indoor air motion, this Powerpoint-enabled short course provides a broadly sweeping, fast-paced overview of CFD practice issues for natural/mixed/forced convection flows in inhabited spaces. The available CD contains full text/VU-graph documentation including dynamic color graphics. Check it out. |
