Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate-level engineering course on modeling multi-domain dynamic systems for design and control applications. Topics cover network representation, state-space models, multi-port energy storage and dissipation, Legendre transforms, nonlinear mechanics, transformation theory, and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations, along with control-relevant system properties. Application examples span electro-mechanical transducers, mechanisms, electronics, fluid and thermal systems, compressible flow, chemical processes, diffusion, and wave transmission. As with other MIT OpenCourseWare offerings, the course provides lecture notes, assignments, and related materials for self-study at no cost, with no certificate offered. It suits students who already have a background in dynamics and want a unified mathematical framework for treating disparate physical systems as analogous energy networks.