Software Lab                                                                                                                                                                           Mar. 12, 2007

Objective: To expose students to the use of available packages for solving engineering problems of moderate complexity having a real world flavour. Problems may be analysis problems of slightly higher complexity, or design problems of slightly lower complexity.

Mode: Students spend upto three weeks working on problems in each of the following areas using available software packages (preferably open source) relevant to the area.
  1. CFD: exercise to include grid generation, solution, post-processing, display (Problem: Not all students will have taken CFD)
  2. FEM: exercise to include discretization, solution, post-processing, display (Problem: not all studemts will have taken FEM)
  3. Trajectory optimization/ orbit design: either launch vehicle trajectory optimization, or orbit design for a spacecraft (Problem: all students won't have optimization).
  4. A small engineering optimization problem involving some mutidisciplinary analysis (Problem: not all students will have taken optimization)
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