Finite elements in mechanics and applications in fluid-structure interaction

• Grant number: 07/07713-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2008
• End date: December 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Gustavo Carlos Buscaglia
• Grantee: Epitácio Henrique Bastos de Miranda
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A comprehensive plan of studies is proposed concerning the use of finite element methods in mechanical problems, aiming at providing the student with the necessary background to understand scientific results in computational mechanics and possibly to do some research of his own in the future. The studies are organized as a series of weekly seminars and of computer implementations of both classical problems and a more advanced topic: Fluid-structure interaction.