Monday, February 15, 2010

Finite Element Analysis



You may have seen images like the one above showing 3D models being deformed. FEA is an incredibly important tool in product design that involves solving extremely complicated mathematical problems by dividing them into simple parts that can be visualized as a dense mesh. The graphical outputs are excellent visual tools to see how parts will deform under certain conditions. Computational fluid dynamics in based on the same principal only with fluid as the medium. This is an evolving area that I'm very interested in and I'm becoming more familiar with this semester in my FEA course.

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