Computational Mechanics

Computational Mechanics#

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Greetings!

Thanks for joining us for UConn’s Computational Mechanics course. This is a hands-on, portfolio-based course. The course website is built with an open source license so after you fork the repository its yours! You can build your own website, notebooks, etc. and share them with anyone you meet. Just make sure you link back to this course website.

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Welcome to Computational Mechanics!

This project is a collection of learning modules in engineering computations for undergraduate students. These materials are a combination of work from Prof. Ryan C. Cooper at the University of Connecticut Mechanical Engineering Department and the Engineering Computations Modules from Prof. Lorena A. Barba and doctoral student Natalia C. Clement at the George Washington University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department.

Each learning module is made up of three or four lessons, written as Jupyter notebooks. We address an area of application or skills in computing in each notebook and each module has an overall objective. We use Python as the programming language.

The overall goal of the course is to frame engineering problems as computational methods. Once we can communicate our engineering problems to Python code (or any other computer language) we use standard computational methods to solve those problems.