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NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 47 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!
NPTEL offers 47 new open online courses (10 hr course, 20hr course and 40hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering&Science, Management and Humanities.

•    Duration of courses: 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks
•    Online course start date: Jan 18, 2016
•    Last date for enrollment: Jan 25, 2016
•    Certification exam dates: Mar 20, 27 (for 10 and 20hr courses) and Apr 24, May 1(for 40 hr courses)

Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

This site uses your Google account for authentication. You can select the course and click the join button to enroll.

After enrollment you will be able to see the course contents as and when they are made available by the course instructors.

List of 10 hr courses:

1.Probability and Stochastics for finance - Mathamatics/management
2.Introduction to Reciprocal Space - Materials Science
3.Introduction to Research - Multidisciplinary

List of 20 hr courses:

1.Microwave Integrated Circuits - Electronics&Communication
2.Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory - Management
3.Estimation for Wireless Communications –MIMO/ OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks - Electronics&Communication
4.Airplane Performance- Aerospace
5.Basics of NVH and Its Measurement - Mechanical
6.Marketing I - Management
7.Manufacturing Process Technology -Part I - Mechanical
8.MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation - Chemical
9.Technical English for Engineers - Humanities
10.Introduction to boundary layers - Mechanical
11.Language and Mind - Humanities
12.Chemistry - II - Chemistry
13.Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices - Materials Science
14.Application of Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Structure Determination - Chemistry
15.Analysis and Modeling of Welding - Materials Science
16.Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy - Materials Science
17.Information Security- II - Computer science
18.Project Planning & Control - Civil
19.Biostatistics and Design of experiments - Biotech
20.Principles of Human Resource Management - Management
21.Health research fundamentals - Humanities
22.Engineering Graphics - Civil
23.2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Computer science
24.2016: An introduction to Haskell Programming    - Computer science
25.2016: Programming, Data structures and Algorithm - Computer science

List of 40 hr courses:

1.Stability and control of aircraft - Aerospace
2.Basics of Finite Element Analysis - Mechanical
3.Electromagnetic theory - Electrical
4.Geology and Soil Mechanics - Civil
5.Phase Diagrams in Materials Science and Engineering - Materials Science
6.Risk and Reliability of offshore structures - Ocean
7.HSE for offshore and petroleum engineers - Ocean
8.Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics
9.Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Mechanical
10.Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Computer science
11.Introduction to Machine Learning - Computer science
12.Computational Fluid Dynamics - Chemical
13.Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer - Mechanical
14.Biochemistry - Chemistry
15.Probability and Statistics - Mathematics
16.Industrial Automation and Control - Electrical
17.Probability Methods in Civil Engineering - Civil
18.Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - Mathematics
19.Vibration of structures - Mechanical

Happy Learning!!!!

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Calculation of final score

Dear Students, 

Hope you've done well in the exams. 
There were some queries about the way the final scores are arrived at i.e. weightage given to assignments and final exam. 
We've already announced weightage for different assignments and the final exam, please go through the previous announcements. 
Wherever we erred we've rescaled the total score to arrive at the proper final score. For example: Some of you scored, 120 out of 100 in one of the assignments, due to wrong weightage given to couple of questions.
Therefore, the marks which you see at your end in the progress tab for assignments is different from your final score. We assure you that we've been lenient in awarding the marks.
Regarding scores for programming assignments :- some of the codes you sent didn't execute. Even then we've awarded some marks to appreciate the effort.

Hope you are satisfied with the course. Wish you all the best!

Regards,

TA, NPTEL Team  

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Feedback for Foundation of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course" Feedback for Foundation of Computational Fluid Dynamics " which was conducted by Prof.S.Vengadesan of IIT Madras between July 1 2015 - Aug 31 2015.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.

It would be great to have a video feedback from you too - where you can talk about your experience with our course , the portal and how the course helped you (maybe for GATE preparation, campus interviews or in your job, etc) . We request you to give your name, if you are a student or a working professional and other details (such as college name or work place, if you would want to), the course you took and your feedback about the same. You can record this using your mobile phone or your laptop/desktop using a webcam or with the help of a friend and upload the same on YouTube and put the link below. We would go through them and select the best videos for upload on our portal as testimonials and in other videos we create about NPTEL for publicity

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1spdx35qMqN0gXT-SopsER3YIIzJzaUD9KilZJpfcHWI

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Calculators in exam-online

Dear Students,

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NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 11 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear All,

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Programming assignment

Dear Students,

Even though most of the you were able to submit the programming assignments without any fuss, some of you faced few technical problems. Therefore we will be manually evaluating the programs of those students who got zero marks even after passing the test.

Your code must satisfy the following criteria:
1. The code must be written in C. C++ or Python.
2. The code must have passed both compilation and test.

Please send only those programs in which you are facing this problem. Enclose all your program in a single .doc file and send it to noc15-me06@nptel.iitm.ac.in.

Mention clearly your name, enrollment details, Assignment number and the programming language that you are using.

Appropriate marks will be added to your final score after evaluation.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team



 

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Hall Ticket for Sep 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam for registered candidates

Dear Candidate:

If you have successfully registered for the September 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam, your hall ticket is available at: 
https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/login.html

Please login with your application number and password that has been sent to you as part of the successful registration email. In the tab - "Hall Ticket" / "Hall ticket for offline exam" you will get your hall ticket. If you are writing 2 course exams, there would be 2 hall tickets available for you to carry for your respective exams. Under the "Hall ticket" tab - there would be a link as click "here", on clicking which your hall ticket will get displayed / downloaded into your system.The hall ticket will have the details of your exam venue. 

Please download, print your hall ticket and carry it with you to the exam center. NPTEL wishes you the very best for the exam.

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

nptel@iitm.ac.in
Contact: 91-44-22575905 / 08

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Weightage and Programming assignment

Dear Students,

There has been slight changes made to the weightage of assignments.
Assignment 2 has 2% weightage and Assignment 8 has 4% weightage.

Regarding the programming assignment, we are waiting for the NPTEL technical team to sort out the glitch. 

We have extended the due dates for programming assignments till 28th of this month. Look it up.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Programming assignment 4

Dear Students,

We have put up the 4th programming assignment in week 7 on the course website. Please read the question carefully and answer the question by writing the program. You need not submit the code for the present assignment. 

Good luck!

Regards, 
- TA 
NPTEL Team 

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Assignment 8 online!

Dear Students,

We have put up Assignment 8 on the course website. Please go through it and submit the assignment within due time. Please note that you can submit the assignment only once.

The due date is 25-08-2015 23:50 IST.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Weightage

Dear Students,

Here is the weightage for assignments and online exam towards the final score.

Assignment 1 - 0%
Assignment 2 - 2%
Assignment 3 - 4%
Assignment 4 - 4%
Assignment 5 - 4%
Assignment 6 - 4%
Assignment 8 - 4%
Programming Assignments - 13%
Online exam - 65%

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Conclusion

Dear Students,

We have entered the last leg of this course. We conclude this course by reviewing all the things that you have been taught. We have also included a extra module in week 8 that talks about the assignments and other problems that you can try for yourself. We will soon put up the MATLAB code on the course website. 

We will be posting week 8 assignment and another programming assignment on iterative methods by tomorrow. 

We hope you are preparing well for the final online exams. 

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Matlab code!

Dear Students,

We've shared a MATLAB code for your reference. The code simulates flow in a lid - driven cavity.  Here is the link -> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-p0cM7m23-ufkhiQy1qOVJCYjQzNEJzcmxsMzNibVdnUWZyTmUxWVd2N3p0aUNybGFqZlE

Note: The code is not a generic one that will simulate all the flows. You should learn, assimilate and develop your own code, the present code is just a template.

Regards,
- TA
NPTEL Team

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Registration deadline extended till August 19th Midnight!

Dear candidate:

Hope you have registered for the NPTEL Online Certification exams on Sep 6th/ 13th 2015! 
If not, here is your last opportunity to register for the same. The deadline for registration has been extended till August 19th 2015 Midnight!

Registration link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

Best wishes for your NPTEL Online certification exam.

Warm regards,
NPTEL Team

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Week 8 lectures are online!

Dear Students,

Week 8 Lecture videos are available on the course website. Please go through it. With this we complete the course syllabus. 

Regarding programming assignments: Coding is an integral part of CFD. There are plenty of materials/lectures available on the internet and also on the NPTEL course website. Please refer those and submit the assignment within the time limit.

Happy learning!

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Programming assignments

Dear Students,

Assignment 7 have been put up on the course website. It is a programming assignment based on the algorithms taught in the course.

Please read the instructions carefully before submitting the assignments.
The due date is on 23-08-2015 23:50 IST

If you any doubts please post it on the Forum

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REMINDER: LAST 5 DAYS LEFT FOR REGISTERING FOR THE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION - REGISTER TODAY!

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Writing Programs

Dear Students,

In Week 7 lectures we have explained different methods of solving a system of equation. The algorithms are also explained in detail. This is good chance for you to implement the algorithms through a computer code, preferably in C, C++ or Python. This will be a good hands-on experience for all of you.

Happy coding!!

Regrds,
TA-NPTEL team

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Week 7 lectures are online!

Dear Students,

Week 7 lectures are online!
We are nearing the end of the course. Hope you are enjoying the experience. 

Happy learning.

Regards,
-TA
NPTEL Team  

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Assignment 5 que 1

Dear Students,

We will be adding 1 point (10 marks) to the total score of all students as the first question of assignment 5 was not framed correctly. 

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Correction

Dear Students,

In module 2 of Week 4 @ 26:20, the denominator must be delta Ypn as pointed out by Ashwin.

Please let us know if you have any doubts or corrections.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Assignment 6 is online!

Dear Students,

We have put up assignment 6 on the course website. Please answer the questions and submit the assignment in time. The due date is 12-08-2015, 23:50 IST.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Week 6 videos online!

Dear Students,

We have put up week 6 videos on the course website. Please go through it.

Happy learning!!

Note: There are two parts to Module 2

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Solutions for Assignment 4

Dear Students,

We have put up the solutions for Assignment 4 on the course website. Please go through it.

Regarding Assignment 4 score:
If you score 100 then it will show as 120. It is due to some technical shortcomings and we will sort this out ASAP. 

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Assignment 5 is online!

Dear Students,

We have put up Assignment 5 on the course website. Please go through it.

It is due on 5-8-2015 at 23:50 IST

We will be re-evaluating assignment 3 soon and therefore you don't have to worry about assignment 3 marks.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Week 5 videos are online!

Dear Students,

Lectures for week 5 have been uploaded onto the course website. This time we have divided the lectures into 6 Modules. 

We are also looking into the matter of scores for assignment 3. You don't have to worry. We will take care of it. 

Those students who have joined recently, make sure that you go through all the lectures and submit all the assignments that are open. 

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Assignment 4 is online!

Dear Students,

We have put up solutions for Assignment 3 on the course website. Please go through it.

We have also put up Assignment 4 which is due on 30th of July, 2015 at 23:50 IST.
Don't miss the deadline!!

This time we have allowed for multiple submissions. This means you can submit the assignment any number of times and final submission will be graded.

Please read the instructions carefully and submit the answer.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Gentle Reminder: Regarding Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

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Solutions to Assignment 2

Dear Students,

We have put up solutions for Assignment 2 on the course website.
Please go through it.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Week 4 videos are online !

Dear Students,

We have put up week 4 videos on the course website..

Happy learning...

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Few corrections...

Dear Students,

There were few corrections that was pointed out in the forum and we want to clarify it..

Week 2 - Module 2: Surrounding elements for element 2 are element 1 and 3 only.

Week 3 - Module 4:

Slide 10: The wave number of the Fourier component in the y-direction is 'q'

Slide 11: cos(theta)=(e^(I*theta)+e^(-I*theta))/2

Regards,
TA-NPTEL team

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Assignment 3 online!

Dear Students,

Assignment 3 is online. The assignment is due on 2015-07-23, 23:50 IST. Kindly submit the assignments carefully and in time.

Regards,
-TA
NPTEL Team 

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Regarding Assignment - 2

Dear Students,

Since the deadline for registering to this course was open till 15th of July, 2015, we are extending the submission date for Assignment - 2 till 20th of July, 2015 23:50 IST.

Please note that the time is in 24 hrs format.

Regards,
TA-NPTEL Team

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Week 3 videos online !

Dear students, 

Week 3 lectures are online. Here is the link https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_me06/unit?unit=33&lesson=34

Happy learning. 

Regards,
-TA
NPTEL Team 

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Regarding Week 1 Assignment 1

Dear Students,

We are receiving many request and complaints regarding Week 1 - Assignment 1 submission. So this is to clear the air on it.

Since many of you were still in the process of joining the course and could not submit the assignment, we will appropriately change the weightage to this particular assignment. You can start from Week 2 - Assignment 1.

There will be no extension of deadline for Week 1 - Assignment 1 as the solution was already posted. Here is the link
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_me06/assets/img/Sol_Assgn_01.pdf

We request you not to wait till the last minute to submit the assignment.
Once the due date and time are reached, the "Submit" button gets automatically disabled.

Regards,

TA-NPTEL team

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Week 2 - Assignment 1

Dear Students, 

We have put up solutions for the first assignment of week 1. Please go through it.
 
We have also put up the first assignment for week 2 on the course website (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in). 

Kindly log in and finish the assignments after going through all the lectures. All questions have multiple choices, and you can submit the assignment only once.
The assignment is due on 14/07/2015 at 23:00 UTC.   

There were some issues about closing date and time of assignment 1 of week 1. We are looking into it and will get back to you ASAP.

Regards, 
- TA
NPTEL Team 

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Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

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Week 2 videos online!

Dear Students,

We have put up lecture videos for the second week.
Lectures of each week are divided into five modules, each module will concentrate on specific topics to help you understand the concepts completely. 

Feel free to post your questions on the forum. Please follow the honor code during discussions. 

Happy learning. 

Regards,
-TA
 NPTEL Team

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Basic Fluid mechanics videos

Dear Students,

Fluid mechanics is a prerequistie for the course. This course focuses mainly on solving the governing equations using numerical techniques.

Many of you have been asking about the basics of Fluid mechanics. To make concepts clear, we are providing few links to some of the YouTube channels which host videos on these subjects.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN8OOkx2ko&list=PL96364257FFBC4A3A
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plkDAEx80bQ&list=PLfF--3o8i4r82vJ0kjCVYgqKgyVM5QwN0
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN8OOkx2ko

We request you to go through any of the above links as a refresher course in basic Fluid mechanics.

Regards,
-TA
NPTEL Team

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Link!

Dear Students,

Once you log on to onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in you have to go to the course page of 'Foundations of CFD' to watch the lectures and to submit assignments.

Here is the link, https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_me06/preview
Kindly bookmark the link.

Regards,
-TA
NPTEL Team

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Assignment 1

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Videos online!

Dear Students,

We have put up lecture videos for the first week. Lectures of each week are divided into five modules, each module will concentrate on specific topics to help you understand the concepts completely.

Feel free to post your questions on the forum. Please follow the honor code during discussions.

Happy learning.

Regards,
-TA
 NPTEL Team

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Welcome to Foundation of computational fluid dynamics

• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.       
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.