Second XFEM short course, July 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland
After the success of the course in 2005 (45 participants from 15 countries), the EPFL school of continuing education presents the second XFEM course.
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NYT Article "The Ultimate Distance Learning"
I stumbled on this article in the NY Times "The Ultimate Distance Learning" (free registration required to view) about the establishment of University distance learning activities within the Second Life online community.
Helpful Math for Continuum Mechanics
If you would like a copy of my lecture notes (on matrix algebra, indicial notation, vectors, tensors, vector calculus, groups, curvilinear coordinates and calculus of variations) they are available at
Systematization Schemes for Mechanics and Concept Maps
1. Introductory
Recently, there has been some active discussion on topics like:
-- Open-source textbooks
-- Comparing lecture notes
-- Unification of mechanics
-- Wikipedia and Citizendium
iMechanica and Citizendium - the perfect union?
Most visitors/users of iMehanica will be aware of Wikipedia. Well, there is a new project of this kind underway. To quote from its "mission statement":
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.
Notes on Fracture of Thin Films and Multilayers
Lecture note of fracture mechanics of thin films and multilayers given at the Technical University of Denmark.
Reproducing Kernel Methods
I am working in the field of microfluidics. I wish apply Reproducing Kernel Method to solve flow problems. Can anybody help me to send the paper "Reproducing Kernel Methods ", Wing Kam Liu, Sukky Jun, Yi Fei Zhang, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol.
Metamaterials: negative mass density and anisotropic mass
Update: February 2012
1) The lecture notes are on Wikiversity at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Waves_in_composites_and_metamaterials
2) The book on the topic can be bought from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Metamaterials-Waves-Composites/dp/1439841578
3) Solutions and errata can be found at node/9727
Size of Compact support and nodal density
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I wish to ask
1) How to decide optimal size of domain of inlfuence in EFGM
2) How many nodes should be there in Domain of inlfuence
3) What is the optimal location. or can they be any location
Optimal Nodal Locations in Mesh Free Methods
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- How random should be the distribution of nodes in element free galerkin method?
- How can we decide if a given nodal distribution is optimal discretization? In case we are using movin