Topics:

1. Ultrasonic transducers, diffraction and time reversal focusing through random media
2. Acoustic waveguides and impedance measurements
3. Medical ultrasonic imaging
4. Sonoluminescence from imploding bubbles

Topics:

1. Finite Element theory and implementation in MATLAB
2. COMSOL Multiphysics
3. Electrostatics
4. Computational Mechanics
5. Quasi-static magnetics
6. Acoustics

Resources:

Exercise class notes: Notes

Nice supplemental material: Comsol Multiphysics tutorial, slides stiffness matrix, slides Dirichlet nodes, integral theorems

Assignment sheets: assignment0-1, assignment0-2, assignment1, assignment2, assignment3, assignment4, assignment5

Exercise sheets: exercise sheet 1, exercise sheet 2, exercise sheet 3

Project sheets: Capacitive acceleration sensor, Capacitive positioning sensor, Mechanical SAW chemical sensor, Magnetic rotation sensor, Acoustic diffraction, Ultrasonic distance sensor

Follow up to CAE of Sensors and Actuators

Topics:

1. Finite Element theory and implementation in MATLAB
2. Mechanical-Acoustic Coupling
3. Piezoelectricity
4. Electro-Mechanical Coupling
5. Magneto-Mechanical Coupling
6. Treatment of nonlinearities

Resources:

Nice supplemental material: Comsol Multiphysics tutorial, integral theorems, EVP Dirichlet node handling, Newmark time-stepping scheme, Gaussian pulse

Assignment sheets: assignment0, assignment1, assignment2, assignment3, assignment4

Project sheets: Phased array transducer, Piezoelectric energy harvester

Teaching theoretical and practical exercise classes.

Teaching theoretical and practical exercise classes.