SYDE 555Modelling of Continuum Systems
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1991–92 to 1994–95 (before that, 1977–78 to 1988–89 used the number for Introduction to Physical Systems); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Finite difference methods as they are applied to boundary value problems in solid mechanics and heat transfer analysis. Use of the finite difference method in the solutions of systems of higher order differential equations. The finite element method as it is applied to problems from structural and thermal analysis. Foundations and important principles of the finite element methods.
As printed in the 1991–92 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1977–78 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1991–92 to 1994–95 4 calendars
Finite difference methods as they are applied to boundary value problems in solid mechanics and heat transfer analysis. Use of the finite difference method in the solutions of systems of higher order differential equations. The finite element method as it is applied to problems from structural and thermal analysis. Foundations and important principles of the finite element methods.
Offered Fall · 3 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1989–90 to 1990–91 calendars.
1977–78 to 1988–89 11 calendars
Another title: Introduction to Physical Systems, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
This course introduces students to a unified approach to Physical System Theory, using a graph-theoretical modelling technique. Specific topics include; component modelling, the system graph and its matrices, system modelling by the branch, chord and branch-chord methods power, energy, Telegen’s theorem, multi-terminal representations, piecewise analysis of systems through subsystems, multiport representations, formulation and solutions of state models, introduction to advanced topics.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit