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479248-HS2024-0-Modelling and Simulation





Root number 479248
Semester HS2024
Type of course Lecture
Allocation to subject Precision Engineering
Type of exam Written exam
Title Modelling and Simulation
Description Attendance is mandatory.
Class Times: 2.5 hours lecturing + 30 mins Q&A/tutorial (Monday afternoons). 2 hours private study with exercises.

Class Locations: Gesellschaftstrasse 6, Room 108

PRERQUISITES

Some knowledge of a programming language (e.g. C or Python primarily although FORTRAN, Pascal, and IDL are other possibilities).
Running some modelling tools (- e.g. openFOAM for the fluid flow element).

COURSE DESCRIPTION

- Definition of modelling and simulation
- Standards and their relationship to simulations
- Physics of thermal balance
- Heating and cooling sensitive elements
- Modelling tools for complex problems
- Verification and test (including visit to Uni Bern TV chamber)
- Sensitivity analyses and documentation
- Basics of fluid flow
- Applications and tools for rarefied gas regimes
- Introduction to structural models
- Meshing and boundary conditions in structural analysis
- Dynamic analyses
- Limits of linear analysis (including visit to Uni Bern shaker table)
- Monte Carlo techniques and statistical distributions
- Fitting and straylight modelling
- Applications of Monte Carlo and ray tracing
ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course) Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible). ILIAS
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Lecturers Prof. Dr. Nicolas Thomas, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences ✉
Martin Niklaus Züger, School of Biomedical and Precision Engineering (SBPE) ✉
Martin Rieder, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences ✉
Sebastian Wolf, Physics Institute ✉
ECTS 5
Recognition as optional course possible Yes
Grading 1 to 6
 
Dates Monday 13:15-16:00 Weekly
Wednesday 23/10/2024 14:15-17:00
Wednesday 30/10/2024 14:15-17:00
Monday 13/1/2025 13:30-15:30
 
Rooms Plenarsaal 121 121, Precision Engineering
 
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