This curricular unit aims to transmit to students the fundamental concepts of mechanics of deformable bodies and fluid mechanics, necessary for an adequate perception of the phenomena involved in each of these areas. In the context of the deformable bodies’ mechanics, one promotes the understanding of the mechanical behavior of structure, components or devices, whereas in the fluid mechanics field, this medium characteristics and its dynamic and static performance are analyzed.
This unit habilitates students for a multidisciplinary understanding of these knowledge areas and for its articulated use in situations where this is required.
Additional objectives of this unit are related to the development of skills concerning the modeling of biomedical components, by using resources that range from symbolic computation resources to the utilization of simulation software applications specifically designed either for the mechanical behavior of deformable solids and for fluid flows’ analyses.