Finite Element Simulations Using ANSYS

This second edition provides mechanical engineering students and practicing engineers with the fundamental knowledge of numerical simulation using ANSYS to focus on solving practical engineering problems. The book serves all disciplines in mechanical engineering: structural, solid mechanics, vibration, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics, with adequate background material and the physics behind the computations. Each physical phenomenon is treated independently in a way that enables readers to pick out single subjects or related chapters and study them as a self-contained unit.

Esam M. Alawadhi is a professor of mechanical engineering at Kuwait University. He earned his doctor of philosophy (May 2001) in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on renewable energy, thermal management of electronics devices, energy conservation for buildings, fluid flow stability, and phase-change heat transfer.