Tag Archives: Computational Science and Engineering

What would you choose as the Top 5 Equations? Top 10?

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

I was going to write my thoughts on the issue of “Universe: Finite or Infinite?” this weekend. Though the weekend has technically already begun, I have been busy at my day-job. Further, though I have been hurriedly jotting down my … Continue reading →

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How to supply a visualization for the displacement gradient tensor

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

[This post was initially posted at iMechanica. After posting it, I realized there was some inconsistency with it, and I noted so at the thread at iMechanica. What I am posting below is a slightly modified version.] It all began … Continue reading →

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Economics—A Bit from the Past, and Something New and Exciting!

Posted on September 5, 2010 by

1. A Bit from the Past While attending IIT Madras (July 1985–Jan 1987), apart from engineering etc., one of the subject areas that I tried to better get acquainted with was business and economics. So, first, I went through some … Continue reading →

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Mohr’s Circle—When Was the Last Time You Used It in Your Professional Engineering Work?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

As a consultant in computational mechanics, I currently help write some FEM-related code, and while doing this job, an episode from a recent past came to my mind. Let me go right on to the technical issue, keeping aside the … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Fast FEA Solvers…

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

Summary: I am thinking of informally conducting a specific case-study concerning the FEA solvers. The reference problem is a very simple but typical problem from stress analysis, leading of course to the linear systems: Ax = b and Ax = … Continue reading →

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