An overview book chapter of Computational Methods in Lagrangian and Eulerian Hydrocodes by David Benson.
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Category Archives: Tutorials
Tutorials for undergraduate and graduate students and for the general public.
Tutorial: Classical constitutive material models for engineering materials
An overview book chapter of classical constitutive material models by Kaspar Willam.
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Course Notes: Dan Segalman's Advanced Vibrations Lectures
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Resource: the "elas" program
FORTRAN source code for a program that computes all elastic constants when you give it any two independent ones. Continue reading
Resource: the "cnv" program
FORTRAN source code for a program that does simple pre-processing tasks, many of which are especially useful for converting fortran source code (e.g., changing all in-line comments to ANSI standard F77 style).
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Tutorial: the thermoelastic square
A very kewl mnemonic device for recalling thermodynamic identities (the Gibbsian relations, the Maxwell relations, the contact or Legendre transformations, etc.) I am working on a new version of this document that will clarify why property definitions for solids do NOT, in general, reduce to those for fluids when the tensors are isotropic. Stay tuned…
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Resource and Tutorial: thermostatics derivative simplification tables
When studying thermodynamics, do you feel lost in an alphabet soup of too many derivatives? Do you take a “random walk” through various identities hoping to stumble upon the right answer? If so, then this document will help! It describes a systematic way to express any thermostatics derivative in terms of fundamental thermodynamic state variables (pressure, temperature, entropy, and specific volume) and basic material properties such as specific heat, bulk modulus, thermal expansion coefficient, Gruneisen’s parameter, etc.
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Tutorial: laws of motion (balance laws)
Summary of the basic equations of mechanics, along with abbreviated derivations.
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Resource: FORTRAN compared with C++
A table that has FORTRAN coding on one side and the equivalent C++ coding on the other. This is very useful if you know one language well and wish to do a similar task in the other (weak) language.
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Tutorial: How to do input/output in FORTRAN
One of these days, you might encounter FORTRAN source code (very common in legacy material models even in modern C++ codes). You might have to “tweak” the FORTRAN even if you aren’t an expert. This program illustrates how to read and write numbers and strings in FORTRAN, which should familiarize you with the syntax. See next entry for further assistance in deciphering Fortran.
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University of Utah CSM Group 