ME-629 APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Credit Hours = 3
COURSE CONTENT
- Principles of scientific computing and programming, Theory and process of computational flow analysis; implementation of CFD codes in high-performance computing (HPC). Introduction to turbulence modelling; Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations; Large Eddy Simulation (LES); Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). Numerical approximation of Navier-Stokes equations; discretization approaches; finite volume method (FVM). Pressure-velocity coupling for staggered and colocated grids. Numerical schemes for hyperbolic, parabolic, and elliptic systems; application of numerical schemes for fluid transport equations. Modelling for steady and transient flows, laminar and turbulent flows. Immersed boundary methods. Mesh generation. Computational techniques for boundary conditions. Numerical methods for algebraic systems of equations. Convergence analysis and verification/validation of the simulation. Critical analysis of the numerical results. Hardware and software aspects of HPC. Parallel computing challenges and main issues. Parallelization approaches for distributed and shared memory systems; Open MP/MPI.
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