Preliminaries

S. P. Venkateshan () and Prasanna Swaminathan ()
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S. P. Venkateshan: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prasanna Swaminathan: Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord, Charge de recherche 2

Chapter Chapter 1 in Computational Methods in Engineering, 2023, pp 1-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We discuss in brief some general issues which will bear on the material presented in the rest of the book. Computational methods require the use of a computing machine such as a calculator, if the calculations are not too many, or a digital computer, if the calculations are many and possibly repetitive and hence dull. While studying the behavior of physical systems we may want to study the effect of many parameters that describe or model the physical system. This may require simulation involving the same set of calculations to be repeated, but each time with different parameter values. The calculations should have adequate precision to show the smallest effect the parameters may have on the result(s). We also introduce MATLAB so that the reader will appreciate many short programs written in MATLAB that are found throughout the book. We do not recommend a particular program or programming language to be used by the reader. This is left to the choice of the reader. Interested readers may use a spreadsheet program for many simulations and avoid writing a computer program.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08226-9_1

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