BEE 6560

Ecological Mechanics

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Ecological mechanics explores ecological relations from a mechanics perspective, including fluid, solid, structural mechanics, and heat and mass transport. While other ecological studies incorporate transport of mass, energy, and information, consideration of momentum transport and its consequence in biotic and abiotic relations in organisms is unique to this discipline. We begin the course by introducing the fundamental and advanced concepts in mechanics. Then we will learn how to incorporate these concepts by considering response function (the functional relationship between condition imposed on the system and its response) to understand and predict ecological phenomena such as predator-prey relation and pattern formation.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisites: ENGRD 2020  (or equivalent statics and mechanics of solid), BEE 3310 (or equivalent fluid mechanics), BEE 3500 (or equivalent heat and mass transport), and BEE 3400 (or equivalent solid mechanics).

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