CE 620: Introduction to the Finite Element Method

CE 620: Introduction to the Finite Element Method

Instructor

Mandar M. Inamdar
Room # 136, Civil Engineering Building
Phone: 7314, Email: minamdar AT iitb DOT ac DOT in

Notice: Download the introductory Handout.
Download the notes based on Fish and Belytschko Notes (till in-class instructions) or the Mathematica Notebook .

Download the notes for 2D linear elasticity based on Fish and Belytschko 2D Elasticity or the Mathematica Notebook .

Download the notes for 2D linear elasticity based on Fish and Belytschko Beams or the Mathematica Notebook .

Class Hours:

Slot 1: Room 228, Civil Engineering

Office Hours:

Drop by or write an email to fix a time
Teaching Assistants:

General Information:

80% attendance is compulsory
Course involves solving a number of computational problems using FENiCS using Python programming
Around 5-6 programming assigments during the semester

Course Documents:

Some Useful Links:

Basic Python

Basic introduction to Python programming from Chapter 1 of Numerical Methods With Python by Jaan Kiusaalas.
Basic introduction to Python Programming for usage in FEniCS finite element libraries.
More detailed introduction to python programming from the point of view of FEniCS.
A general introduction to python.

FEniCS References

Download and Install FEniCS on different OS (very easy on Mac and Ubuntu Linux).
Install FEniCS on Windows 10 using Ubuntu App.

Interesting FEA links