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Professor Mecitoglu has prepared lecture notes and presentations for the course of Finite Element Analysis in Structures. You can download these documents using the following links.

The lecture notes presented in this page have been prepared as supplementary material for a graduate level course on Finite Element Methods. You are welcome to read or print them for your own personal use. All other rights are reserved.

Also, the lecture notes of Professor Liu are given as pdf documents. I will give some useful links related finite element analysis. I will be appreciated if you send me useful documents and links about the finite element analysis. 

Lecture Notes and Presentations

Professor Liu's Lecture Notes

Tutorials In Finite Element Analysis Using MSC-Patran-Nastran.pdf

FEA Links

UIUC Airfoil Data Site

Prof. Michael Selig at the University of Illinois has compiled a large collection of airfoil coordinates.  Included are a large number of low Reynolds number airfoil shapes.  There are links to various other sources of airfoil information and analysis tools.

NASG Airfoil Database

This is from the Nihon University Aero Students Group page in Japan.  They have compiled a significant resource of airfoil shapes and drag polars.  The link here takes you to the page in English.

JavaFoil

This site is maintained by Martin Hepperle and includes a Java applet for airfoil design that runs via your internet browser.  This is a fairly easy to use   applet that will allow analysis (and inverse design) of airfoils.

XFOIL

This program has been developed by Prof. Mark Drela and his students over the last several years.  It is arguably one of the most popular airfoil analysis tool available.