Written for students who want to use ANSYS software while learning the
finite element method, this book is also suitable for designers and
engineers before using the software to analyse realistic problems. The
books presents the finite element formulations for solving engineering
problems in the fields of solid mechanics, heat transfer, thermal stress
and fluid flows. For solid mechanics problems, the truss, beam, plane
stress, plate, 3D solid elements are employed for structural, vibration,
eigenvalues, buckling and failure analyses. For heat transfer problems,
the steady-state and transient formulations for heat conduction,
convection and radiation are presented and for fluid problems, both
incompressible and compressible flows using fluent are analyzed.
The book contains twelve chapters describing different analysis
disciplines in engineering problems. In each chapter, the governing
differential equations and the finite element method are presented. An
academic examples used to demonstrate the ANSYS procedure for solving it
in detail. An application example is also included at the end of each
chapter to highlight the software capability for analysing practical
problems.
