A course emphasizing the use of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer principles in thermal environmental design. Building energy requirements will be computed and thermal comfort criteria will be studied.
A detailed investigation of a topic of current significance in mechanical engineering such as: computer-aided manufacturing, special topics in robotics, and current topics in heat transfer. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of nine credits. A particular topic may be offered at most twice under the ME 599 number.
Applications of small-oscillation shell theory to continuous mechanical systems modelled by shells, plates, rings, arches, membranes, beams, etc. Study of natural frequencies, modeshapes, forced-vibration characteristics, system dampings, dynamic influence function, combination of subsystems, active and passive vibration controls and dampings.
The need to increase quality, productivity, efficiency and sustainability in manufacturing operations spanning the product, process and systems (manufacturing systems as well as supply chain) domains is essential for companies to be successful. The increased globalization of markets and manufacturing operations, declining natural resources and negative consequences of some manufacturing practices as well as increased legislation in many regions has led to many new challenges that companies must overcome to be successful in competitive markets.
Advanced study of metal cutting involving the mechanics of metal cutting including cutting forces, tool-wear/tool-life and temperature analysis, surface finish and integrity, chip control, machinability assessments and advances in cutting tool technology.
Phase-change heat transfer including boiling and condensation. Phenomenological treatment of boiling using hydrodynamic instability. Theory of two-phase flow and its application to forced flow boiling. Film and dropwise condensation.
A continuation of ME 531 with emphasis on viscous flow. Exact and approximate solutions, boundary layer theory. Jets, wakes, rotating systems, compressible boundary layer and hydrodynamic stability.
A brief review of vectors and an in-depth discussion of tensors and tensor calculus. Stress, deformation and strain. Continuum balance principles of mass, momentum and energy, the equations of motion and the energy equation. Entropy, the principles of material frame indifference and material symmetry. Various constitutive models, including elasticity (linear and/or non-linear), plasticity and viscoelasticity. Thermoelasticity, hyperelasticity, hypoelasticity, and electroelasticity may also be addressed.
Many physical systems in engineering involve rigid bodies in translation and rotation. Such motions are studied in this course by the use of Euler's Laws. The kinematical description of the motions utilize the concept of reference frames. The inertia properties of rigid bodies, and the energy functions for rigid bodies are covered. Analytical and numerical solutions of dynamical systems of engineering interest are considered.
Conceptual development and study of complex systems; their synthesis and design; analysis and optimization of system parameters. Input-output relationships; formulation of mathematical models, parameters and constraints on physical systems.
