Methods & Technical Tools
Software is useful only when it serves the research design.
The technical route depends on what must be calculated, modelled,
compared or validated.
Research need
Typical methods
Possible tools
System behaviour
Dynamic response, control, energy flow
System modelling & numerical simulation
Equations, state models, scenarios, control logic
MATLAB / Simulink
Used when appropriate to the study design
Structural or thermal response
Stress, deformation, heat, material behaviour
Finite element / numerical analysis
Meshing, loads, boundary conditions, convergence
Abaqus / ANSYS
Depending on the required analysis
Flow or transport phenomena
Velocity, pressure, thermal-fluid interaction
CFD / computational modelling
Domain, mesh, turbulence model, residuals
ANSYS Fluent / CFD tools
Chosen according to the research problem
Data-driven comparison
Trends, error, performance, sensitivity
Data processing & numerical analysis
Cleaning, metrics, plots, comparisons
MATLAB / Python / spreadsheets
Selected according to data and analysis needs