Engineering Analysis

Zhihe Jin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1988. His research areas include fracture mechanics, thermal stresses, poromechanics, biomechanics and thermoelectricity. His research is mainly concerned with the mathematical theories and solutions of fracture, deformation, heat conduction, porous fluid flow and thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency. He has published more than 100 refereed journal papers and 6 book chapters. He also co-authored a textbook on fracture mechanics published in 2011 (Sun & Jin, Fracture Mechanics 1e, Elsevier). He has taught 11 undergraduate and graduate courses including Mechanical Engineering Analysis at the University of Maine.

PART I ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS – ADVANCED TOPICS 1. Ordinary Differential Equations and Power Series Solutions 2. The Frobenius Method 3. The Laplace Transform Method 4. Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations PART II FOURIER ANALYSIS 5. Fourier Series 6. Fourier Transforms PART III PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 7. Partial Differential Equations in Engineering 8. Separation of Variables Method 9. Separation of Variables Method – Circular and Spherical Regions 10. Integral Transform Methods 11. The Finite Difference Method PART IV TENSOR ANALYSIS 12. Cartesian Tensors 13. Tensor Analysis