README.md

# Computational Mechanics

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](https://ryan-c-cooper.uconn.edu) at the University of
Connecticut Mechanical Engineering Department and the [Engineering Computations
Modules](https://github.com/engineersCode/EngComp) from Prof. Lorena A. Barba
and doctoral student Natalia C. Clement at the George Washington University,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. 

Each learning modules is made up of three or four lesson, written as a 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 learn to frame engineering problems as
computational methods. Once we can communicate our engineering problems to
Python code (or any other computer language) we can use standardized
computational methods to solve those problems. 

[View the Syllabus](./syllabus.html)

[Print the Syllabus](./docs/me3255S2020_syllabus.pdf)

[CompMech01-Getting
Started](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/CompMech01-Getting-started)

- Getting comfortable with Python

- Quantifying error in computational methods

[CompMech02-Analyze-data](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/CompMech02-Analyze-data)

- Describing and plotting data

- Some statistics

- Monte Carlo modelling

[CompMech03- Initial Value
Problems](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/CompMech03-IVPs)

- Creating functions that are physical models

- Solving ordinary differential equations

- Solving nonlinear equations

[CompMech04- Linear
Algebra](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/CompMech04-LinearAlgebra)

- Define sets of equations as matrix algebra

- Solve for multiple equations for multiple unknown variables

[CompMech05- Boundary Value
Problems](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/CompMech05-BVPs)

- Continue creating functions that are physical models

- Solve 1D and 2D partial differential equations with finite difference
  approximations


## License

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is under BSD-3
clause](https://github.uconn.edu/rcc02007/Computational_Mechanics/LICENSE). We are
happy if you re-use the content in any way!

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