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3.00 Credits
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Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.004 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative knowledge of human movement behavior is important in a growing number of engineering applications (medical & rehabilitation technology, athletic & military equipment, human-computer interaction, vehicle performance, etc.). Presents a quantitative, model-based description of how biomechanical and neural factors interact in human sensory-motor behavior, focusing mainly on the upper limbs. Students survey recent literature on how motor behavior is controlled, comparing biological and robotic approaches to similar tasks. Topics may include a review of relevant neural, muscular and skeletal physiology, neural feedback and "equilibrium-point" theories, co-contraction strategies, impedance control, kinematic redundancy, optimization, intermittency, contact tasks and tool use. Students taking the graduate version will complete additional assignments.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.004 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines the synthesis of large-scale and complex engineered systems, such as flow networks, complex electromechanical machines, and groups of autonomous agents. Application examples are drawn from power systems, autonomous robots, and other areas. Covers various complex systems and their representations; analysis techniques, including parametric sensitivity analysis via Monte Carlo and collocation approaches; stability principles for large interconnections of dynamic elements; and robust load-flow design problems in distribution systems. Inherent complexity of large design problems, and stochastic synthesis approaches as an alternative to design-by-analysis.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 18.085
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4.00 Credits
The fundamentals of fluid mechanics are developed in the context of naval architecture and ocean science and engineering. Transport theorem and conservation principles. Navier-Stokes' equation. Dimensional analysis. Ideal and potential flows. Vorticity and Kelvin's theorem. Hydrodynamic forces in potential flow, D'Alembert's paradox, added-mass, slender-body theory. Viscous-fluid flow, laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Model testing, scaling laws. Application of potential theory to surface waves, energy transport, wave/body forces. Linearized theory of lifting surfaces. Experimental project in the towing tank or propeller tunnel.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.006, 2.016, or 1.060
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3.00 Credits
Design tools for analysis of linear systems and random processes related to ocean vehicles; description of ocean environment including random waves, ocean wave spectra and their selection; short and long term wave statistics; and ocean currents. Advanced hydrodynamics for design of ocean vehicles and offshore structures including wave forces on towed and moored structures; inertia vs. drag dominated flows; vortex induced vibrations of offshore structures; ship seakeeping and sensitivity of seakeeping performance. Design exercises in application of principles. Several laboratory exercises emphasizing modern measurement techniques, model testing, and flow diagnostic tools.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.20
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4.00 Credits
Develops theory and design of hydrofoil sections; lifting and thickness problems for sub-cavitating sections and unsteady flow problems. Computer-aided design of low drag, cavitation free sections. Covers lifting line and lifting surface theory with applications to hydrofoil craft, rudder, control surface, propeller and wind turbine rotor design. Topics include propeller lifting line and lifting surface theory; computer-aided design of wake adapted propellers, steady and unsteady propeller thrust and torque; performance analysis and design of wind turbine rotors in steady and stochastic wind. Develops numerical principles of vortex lattice and lifting surface panel methods. Projects illustrate the development of computational methods for lifting, propeller and wind turbine flows; use of state-of-the-art simulation methods illustrates their use to lifting, propulsion and wind turbine applications.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.20, 18.085
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4.00 Credits
Surface wave theory, conservation laws and boundary conditions, properties of regular surface waves and random ocean waves. Linearized theory of floating body dynamics, kinematic and dynamic free surface conditions, body boundary conditions. Simple harmonic motions. Diffraction and radiation problems, added mass and damping matrices. General reciprocity identities on diffraction and radiation. Ship wave resistance theory, Kelvin wake physics, ship seakeeping in regular and random waves. Discusses point wave energy absorbers, beam sea and head-sea devises, oscillating water column device and Well's turbine. Discusses offshore floating energy systems and their interaction with ambient waves, current and wind, including oil and gas platforms, liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels and floating wind turbines. Homework drawn from real-world applications.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.20, 18.085
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4.00 Credits
Survey of principal concepts and methods of fluid dynamics. Mass conservation, momentum, and energy equations for continua. Navier-Stokes equation for viscous flows. Similarity and dimensional analysis. Lubrication theory. Boundary layers and separation. Circulation and vorticity theorems. Potential flow. Introduction to turbulence. Lift and drag. Surface tension and surface tension driven flows.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.006; Coreq: 18.075 or 18.085
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4.00 Credits
Fundamentals of fluid dynamics intrinsic to natural physical phenomena and/or engineering processes. Discusses a range of topics and advanced problem-solving techniques. Sample topics include brief review of basic laws of fluid motion, scaling and approximations, creeping flows, boundary layers in high-speed flows, steady and transient, similarity method of solution, buoyancy-driven convection in porous media, dispersion in steady or oscillatory flows, physics and mathematics of linearized instability, effects of shear and stratification. In alternate years, two of the following modules will be offered: I: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics of Coastal Waters, II: Capillary Phenomena, III: Non-Newtonian Fluids, IV: Flagellar Swimming.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 18.085; 2.25 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Governing equations, and statistical and dynamical theories of turbulence. Isotropic homogeneous turbulence, near wall turbulence, effects of free surface and surfactants and moving body boundary. Direct numerical simulations, large eddy simulations and sub-grid scale modeling, Reynolds-Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and RANS turbulence models. Flow instability and transitions, almost parallel flows and inviscid and viscous instabilities. Laminar and turbulent separation, expansion flows, separated flows past bluff and streamlined bodies; flow induced vibrations.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.20 or 2.25; 18.075
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