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Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Foundation Of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Indian Institute of Technology Madras and NPTEL via Swayam

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This is an introductory course in CFD. In this course, students will be exposed to basics of CFD. Students will gain knowledge on FD/ FV strategy, formulation of the problem and solution techniques. Students at the end of the course will get to experience a simple and sample working CFD code and thus develop confidence.INTENDED AUDIENCE:NilPREREQUISITES: NilINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Nil

Syllabus

Week1
Module1: Introduction
Module 2: Review of basic fluid mechanics
Module 3: Review of equations and importance of terms
Module 4: Review of equations (contd.) and non-dimensionalization
Module 5: Vorticity-Stream function equation, classification of equation and the solution nature
Module 6: Classification of equations (contd.), types of boundary conditions and
description about standard test cases.
Week2
Module 1: Steps involved in CFD, Information about Computational domain and grid with illustration
Module 2: Information about grid (contd.); Taylor’s series expansion
Module 3: Taylor’s series expansion, CD / FD / BD for first & second derivative;
Module 4: FD formula for non-uniform mesh; mixed derivative
Module 5: Derivation for higher derivative; FD formula by Polynomial procedure
Week3
Module 1: Different Approximation Methods
Module 2: Properties associated with discretization
Module 3: Errors due to approximation and their analysis – consistency, convergence
Module 4: Stability analysis
Module 5: FD formulation for model equations and explanation
Week 4
Module 1: FV formulation for diffusion equation – 1D
Module 2: Example and extension to 2D and 3D
Module 3: FV formulation for convection and diffusion equation
Module 4 & 5: Treatment of convective terms - different interpolations
Week 5
Module 1 & 2: Illustration on the performance by different approximation for convection terms
Module 3: Time integration methods
Module 4: Arrangement of variables; Introduction to Pressure velocity coupling, MAC
Module 5: SIMPLE
Module 6: Variants of SIMPLE, Projection Method

Week 6
Module 1: Introduction to Turbulent flows
Module 2: Deriving governing equations
Module 3: Reynolds stresses, modeling strategy
Module 4 & 5: Introduction to Standard models and explanation

Week 7
Module 1: Matrix inversion – Direct, Iterative procedure
Module 2: Direct solver / Iterative solver
Module 3 - 5: Iterative solver

Week 8
Module 1 - 5: Demonstration of a test case with a display of working CFD code and details

Thanks to the support from MathWorks, enrolled students have access to MATLAB for the duration of the course.

Taught by

S. Vengadesan

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