AMUSE

Date: October 24, 2018

Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Mohammad Aramfard, PhD Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Title: “Heaven of Mathematicians”; An Introduction to Numerical Methods in Mechanics

Abstract: Mechanics is considered to be a fertile field for many branches of mathematics to be born or flourish including calculus of variation and partial differential equations, among others. In this presentation some main branches of mathematics used in mechanics are explained and an overview of numerical methods is presented. Numerical methods are used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible to be solved analytically. Among famous numerical methods used to study systems at atomistic scales, Molecular Dynamics is versatile and easy to use. This method can be used to model individual atoms in different systems from biological to metallic materials.