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Jousef Murad

Sep 24, 2023

🏗️ Finite Element Analysis in the Browser using Google Collab

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🎨 Great for Engineers! Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib

This book is organized into 4 parts. The first part considers the fundamental principles of the Matplotlib library. This includes reviewing the different parts that constitute a figure, the different coordinate systems, the available scales and projections, and the authors also introduce a few concepts related to typography and colors.

The authors explore the different types of plot available and see how a figure can be ornamented with different elements. The third part is dedicated to more advanced concepts, namely 3D figures, optimization, animation and toolkits.

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🤓 Solve Real World Problems Using Simulation + AI

This latest upgrade our Inductive Research Lab’s coastal dynamics simulation capabilities, by adding a new easy-to-use simulation scenario named CoastalArea (see video) and methods for conveniently manipulating bathymetries.

Whether you're an engineer or researcher, Inductiva API empowers you to explore the world of simulation at scale.

💧Turbulence Modeling Resource from NASA

The purpose of this site is to provide a central location where Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models are documented. This effort is guided by the Turbulence Model Benchmarking Working Group (TMBWG), a working group of the Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

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Product Preview: AI-Based Physics Predictions in Your Web-Browser

In this webinar, SimScale will show you a preview of its fully integrated AI-based physics simulations and how they will disrupt the engineering world. SimScale’s mission to bring simulation to every engineer now extends to AI tools which will sit right next to the physics solvers, giving designers easy access to both via a simple login from a web browser.

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💻 Engineering Tool of the Week – Sparselizard

Sparselizard is a high-performance, multiphysics, hp-adaptive, open source C++ finite element library running on Linux, Mac and Windows. A fast algorithm for mesh-to-mesh interpolation and a general implementation of the mortar finite element method allow to easily work with non-matching meshes and provide general periodic conditions. FEM simulations can be weakly or strongly coupled to lumped electric circuits.

Sparselizard can handle a general set of problems in 3D, 2D axisymmetric, 2D and 1D such as mechanical (anisotropic elasticity, geometric nonlinearity, buckling, contact, crystal orientation), fluid flow (laminar, creeping, incompressible, compressible), stabilized advection-diffusion, nonlinear acoustic, thermal, thermoacoustic, fluid-structure interaction, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, piezoelectric, superconductor,... problems with a transient, (multi)harmonic or damped/undamped eigenmode analysis.

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📚Book of the Week

A First Course in the Finite Element Method, Enhanced Edition

This unique book is written so you can easily comprehend content without the usual prerequisites, such as structural analysis. This book is ideal, whether you are a civil or mechanical engineering student primarily interested in stress analysis and heat transfer, or you need a foundation for applying FEM as a tool in solving practical physical problems.

New and expanded real-world examples and problems demonstrate FEM applications in a variety of engineering and mathematical physics-related fields. Each chapter uses a consistent structure with step-by-step, worked-out examples, ideal for undergraduate or graduate-level study. A new WebAssign digital platform provides additional online resources to clarify concepts and assist you in completing assignments.

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