Læringsutbytte

A candidate who has completed the course will have a learning outcome in the form of aquired knowledge, skills, and general competence, as described below.

KNOWLEDGE
The candidate will:

• Understand the standard terminology within the topics of modelling
• Understand the basic principles and ideas associated with modelling
• Understand how to identify the crucial components of a system, needed for model design
• Understand how to use relevant simplifying assumptions that give efficient models

SKILLS
The candidate will:

• Be able to build dynamic models by use of modelling principles appropriate for the case
• Be able to do basic simulation of dynamic models
• Be able to find, read and understand information in journals, books, internet, etc. relevant for the modeling problem
• Be able to draw the right conclusions from the analysis

GENERAL COMPETENCE
The candidate will:

• Be able to communicate/discuss with engineering colleagues problems related to modeling of dynamic systems, and to report work in writing

Innhold

Material, momentum and energy balances, stochiometric reactions and mass conservation, reaction kinetics, thermodynamic models, transport laws and coupled systems.

The main principles of simplifying assumptions. Classification of model quantities.

Analysis of developed models through linear approximation and solution of approximate model, time constants, and numerical solution/simulation using relevant tools.

Applications of dynamic models. Although lumped and distributed modeling examples will be used to illustrate the topics, the core topic is systematic model development principles for process and energy systems

Arbeids- og læringsformer

Lectures, exercises and assignments are used for the campus-based course.

An online, part-time version of the SCE study programme will start Fall 2015. The present course will be taught online from the fall semester of year 2015. However, the course will continue to be taught also as a traditional campus-based course. The course contents and learning material used in the course will be the same in both programmes, except that in the online programme, the lectures will be in the form of offline/asynchronous presentations.

Vurderingsformer

All compulsory exercises and assignments must be graded as “passed” in order to participate in the final test at the end of the semester.

The grade of the course will be the grade received on the final test, i.e. the grade of the final test counts 100%.

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