Description:  Thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion processes, premixed and diffusion flames, ignition, characterization and combustion of gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels, environmental aspects of combustion.

 

Description: Friction, wear, and lubrication in design of machine components and other surface interactions, with emphasis on optimizing tribological performance. May count MECH 5230 or MECH 6230/6236.

Description: Basic concepts, fabrication and operation of micro machined semiconductor, piezoelectric, piezoresistive, capacitive and fiber-optic sensors.

 

Description: Basic concepts in robotics such as kinematic analysis, coordinate transformation. Lagrange and Newton Euler equations of motion.

 

Description: Mass Conservation, Linear and Angular Momentum Equations; Energy Equation for Fluid Systems; Foundations of Inviscid Flows.

 

Description: Advanced topics in finite element and finite difference methods; solution techniques, stability and convergence.

 

Description: Stress and strain analysis in 3-D, constitutive behavior of elastic solids, orthotropy and isotropy, stress compatibility equations, Navier's equation, stress functions, applications.

 

Description: Experimental methods for measurement of stress, strain and displacement. Strain gauges, transducers and brittle coatings. Transmission photoeleasticity and photoelastic coatings. Introduction to moire' and coherent optical techniques.

Description: Energy methods in solid mechanics. Virtual work, stationary potential energy, and variational calculus. Elastic strain energy. Applications to bars, trusses, beams, frames, and plates. Castigliano's Theorem and the Ritz Method.

 

Description: Introduction, geometrical concepts, analytical methods, Poincare' maps, strange attractors, bifurcation, normal forms, center manifold theory, Liapunov stability, Liapunov exponents, linearization about periodic orbits, Floquet theory, bifurcation analysis.