Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics

Course code: AE3-030

Summary Grade: 7

The files below form a summary of the fluid part of the course (the first half). It contains about all of the important parts of the reader, plus a few extra explanations.
For those who are wondering: there is no summary present of the solid part of the course (the second half). I tried summarizing it, but the reader lacks too much clarity to ever be summarizible.

  • Approximations and their errors (71kb)
    What are Landau symbols? And how we can use them to describe errors? That's what this file is all about.
  • Hyperbolic and elliptic equations (136kb)
    What is the difference between hyperbolic and elliptic equations? And how can we solve them using finite-difference schemes? Let's find that out!
  • Time dependent problems (73kb)
    Numerical methods often differ from reality. In this file we ask ourselves, what happens to the errors as time progresses?
  • The panel method (72kb)
    What are source distributions? And what role do they play in the panel method? Read it here!
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