Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advantages, Applications, Future of CFD.
Problem set up-pre-process, Numerical solution – CFD solver, Result report and visualization-post-process.
Introduction, the continuity equation, the momentum equation, the energy equation, the additional equations for turbulent flows, generic form of the governing equations for CFD, boundary conditions.
Introduction, Discretisation of governing equations, Finite difference method, Finite volume method, converting governing equations to algebraic equation system, Numerical solutions.
Introduction, consistency, stability, convergence, accuracy, efficiency, case studies.
Introduction, grid generation, boundary conditions, turbulent modeling.
Introduction, CFD as a design tool, indoor air flow distribution, CFD as a research tool, CFD applied to heat transfer coupled with fluid flow, buoyant free standing fire, flow over vehicle platoon, air/particle flow in human nasal cavity, high speed flows.
Introduction, advances in numerical methods and techniques – incompressible flows, compressible flows, moving grids, multigrid methods, parallel computing, immersed boundary methods. Advances in computational methods – DNS, LES, RANS-LES coupling for turbulent flows, multiphase flows, combustion, fluid-structure interaction, physiological fluid dynamics and other numerical approaches.