PART A

1. What is the necessity of strong and weak formulations in boundary value problems?
2. Define local shape function or element shape function.
3. What is variational formulation of finite element method?
4. List down the difference between finite volume and finite difference methods.
5. What are the types of grids generally used in finite volume methods?
6. What do you mean wiggles in the numerical solution?
7. What is meant by strong conservation form and weak conservation form?
8. What is the necessity of staggered grid in control volume methods?
9. What are the merits and demerits of multi-stage time stepping methods?
10. Define mesh Fourier number.
PART B
11.

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12.

(a)
(b)

Discuss about the FEM method of weighted residuals.

(OR)
Discuss Lax Wendroff technique.

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Discuss about the FEM method of least squares.

(OR)
Explain Mac Cormacks technique.

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PART C
13.

(a)

Explain linear and quadratic interpolation approximating method in FEA. (16)

(OR)

(b)

Solve the simplified Sturn-Lioville equation

condition y(0)=0 and

14.

(a)
(b)

15.

using Galerkin formulation.

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Explain Runge Kutta method and Multi-stage time stepping method.

(16)
(OR)
Prove that node centred FVM formulation yields the result identical to the
FDM method for rectangular grid.

(a)
What is strong formulation? Explain with help of one dimensional boundary
value problem.
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(OR)
(b)
Describe FEM solution of the one dimensional heat conduction equation
by taking 4 elements.

16.

with boundary

(16)

(a)

Draw flow chart and describe SIMPLE algorithm for 2D laminar steady flow
equations in Cartesian coordinates.
(16)
(OR)

(b)

Discretise
and consistency.

for Euler explicit method. Examine truncation error

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