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"FEA" (Finite Element Analysis) won't just solve all of yours problems. Since you're dealing with such large deformations, you can't use a traditional Euler-Bernoulli beam approach, so if you use the FEM (Finite Element Method) on an EB member, you won't get a very good answer. You have to...

Well, it looks like somebody beat me to the punch... but like a decade. There is an Excel "program" called SuperTiller. I think the current version is 6.6. It's pretty good in my opinion. The user interface is nice and it generates a lot of really useful information. My one criticism about...

I know this does not answer your question, but eventually it will. I am working on software to do exactly that. Hopefully I will have a preliminary working V1 release ready by February 2011. The analysis will be crude, and the graphics and interface very rudimentary at best. Although it will...

http://www.amath.washington.edu/~kot/lect.d/401/fall10/webpage/tmp/all.html This website would probably be your best bet. However, I have no idea how to access the videos or lecture notes, which I would really like to do. So if anyone knows how, just let us all know!

uh yea basically a mechanical or aero engineering degree will do as long as you have some sort of concentration in fluid mechanics/dynamics, acoustics, programming, etc. They're really all the same thing (mechanical/aero/marine). And yes, you do need to know a bit of math.