ENGR 530 Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Transport Phenomena
Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Transport Phenomena aims to fulfill the requirements of a general mathematics course for graduate-level engineering programs, while presenting topics and mathematical tools which address the needs of materials science and engineering students and which are often not available in extant graduate-level mathematics courses. The emphasis of this course is twofold: first, mathematical concepts and techniques are presented which are used to describe the dynamical behavior of materials, namely, the materials¿ response to acoustic and electromagnetic fields, and to mechanical systems of forces, which may all vary with time in an arbitrary manner. Included are also time-retardation effects and hysteresis phenomena. This content complements the mathematics generally covered in courses such as mechanics of materials and theory of elasticity, in which a static or quasi-static regime is usually envisioned. Secondly, the course includes the mathematics of transport phenomena, expressly energy, momentum, and mass transport, which underlie the synthesis and processing of materials, as well as materials¿ behavior in extreme environments.
Cross Listed Courses
ENGR 530 &
MSE 530
Prerequisite
open to Engineering graduate students