FEM-Based Computer Simulation Training to Study Synergistic Effects

Digital learning methodologies currently being developed use standard software packages. It is also proposed to use a new approach involving the participation of trainees in the development of new software products based on the finite element method (FEM). The approach has been developed over the past seven years at the Department of Systems Analysis and Decision Making (SAiDM), Ural Federal University. The finite element method also makes it possible to introduce trainees to a class of technical phenomena, which is little known until now, described by synergistic features. Currently, the approach has been implemented for a number of areas of digital production technologies: predicting the degradation processes of high-temperature multiphase materials, describing the processes of electrical breakdown of high-voltage devices, modeling self-organization processes during evaporation and condensation of materials during their laser processing, creating new technologies for powder metallurgy based on synergistic processes, optimization of the structure of electrophysical multiphase materials, and a number of others. Methods of application of FEM are focused especially on students studying in the direction of "Business Informatics". The disadvantages of the proposed pedagogical method include the limited number of trainees involved in its application. The advantages include the possibility of forming an elite of specialists who are able to adapt to the conditions of the currently developing scientific and technological revolution associated with the development of advanced digital production technologies.