Numerical Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering

This book introduces the concepts and methodologies related to the modelling ofthe complex phenomena occurring in materials processing. After a short reminderof... » 

This book introduces the concepts and methodologies related to the modelling ofthe complex phenomena occurring in materials processing. After a short reminderof conservation laws and constitutive relationships the authors introduce themain numerical methods finite differences finite volumes and finite elements.These techniques are developed in three main chapters of the book that tacklemore specific problems phase transformation solid mechanics and fluid flow.The two last chapters treat inverse methods to obtain the boundary conditionsor the material properties and stochastic methods for microstructuralsimulation. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students inmaterials science and engineering mechanical engineering and physics and forengineering professionals or researchers who want to get acquainted withnumerical simulation to model and compute materials processing. «