
Explore the background and history of modern CFD, from the finite volume method and upwind schemes to turbulence models, with practical Navier–Stokes solvers and applications across engineering.
Explore the governing equations of fluid flow, including continuity and Navier–Stokes. Examine energy or enthalpy, species transport, and boundary conditions, plus common simplifications like boundary layer and Darcy.
Discover the finite volume method by partitioning the field into control volumes, tracking fluxes to enforce conservation, and understanding péclet number effects on upwind and central schemes.
Examine direct and iterative linear solvers for the finite volume method, their preconditioning and convergence tests, and Crank-Nicolson time stepping with flux discretization in one-dimensional heat conduction.
Explore the pressure projection method for incompressible flow, covering staggered versus co-located grids, aliasing, and velocity corrections, with adaptive grid refinement and meshless methods.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has emerged as an essential component of the design and analysis process for a wide range of engineering applications. CFD tools enable an design engineer to simulate and understand the impact of the underlying physics, mathematics, and numerical concepts on an engineering system.
This introductory course addresses a wide range of topics from fundamental aspects of finite volume method to the state-of-the-art technologies, such as application of the latest Machine learning techniques to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
This course will cover;
Detail understanding of the finite volume method for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Critical understanding of the Governing equations including; The balance laws, Convective and Diffusive Fluxes, Accumulation and Source/Sink Terms, The basic Governing Equations in Integral and Differential forms etc…
The pressure projection and SIMPLE algorithm, Adaptive grid refinement, Gridles methods etc…
Introduction to the physics of turbulent flows and learn to apply the various turbulence models in CFD. Detail discussion on various turbulence models, energy cascading, Kolmogorov scales, Near wall behaviour, Wall function, Y+, etc...
How to apply CFD to environmental flows, including atmospheric dispersion, ground water flow, surface water flow including tsunamis.
A detail perspective on emerging trends, including the impact of deep machine learning and AI in CFD