Prof. Sreenivas Jayanti

This course will cover basic concepts in Computational Fluid Dynamics which is describes as follows : Illustration of the CFD approach; CFD as an engineering analysis tool. Derivation of flow governing equations; turbulence modeling; modeling approaches for multiphase flow; initial and boundary conditions; wellposedness. Discretization of the governing equations using finite difference/volume/element methods; concepts of consistency, stability and convergence; template for the discretization of a generic unsteady transport equation. Solution of discretized equations; direct methods; classical iterative methods; advanced methods for structured matrices; conjugate gradient techniques; multigrid methods. Solution of coupled equations: methods for compressible flows; evaluation of pressure in incompressible flows; pressure-velocity coupling algorithms. Structured and unstructured grids; structured grid generation; unstructured grid generation. Benchmarking; calibration.
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