Guest Lecturer (Jan-apr 2022)

Foundation of Modelling and Simulation

Mechanical Engineering Department, YCCE, Nagpur

This course was offered as a TA credit course for third year UG students.

Here is a brief outline of the course:

• Introduction and applications for materials engineers (1 hour)
• Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations and their physical significance through examples (1 hour)
• Steady-state heat transfer in 1D (2 hours)
• Tutorial on Python basics (2 hours)
• Tutorial on simulating steady-state heat conduction in 1D (2 hours)
• Steady-state heat transfer in 2D (2 hours)
• Tutorial on simulating steady-state heat transfer in 2D (2 hours)
• Transient heat transfer problems in 1D and Python tutorial (2 hours)
• Applications through commercial and open-source software packages (2 hour)

15 students received credit points and certificates for attending and participating in continuous assessment through assignments.