MAK 376E - Computational Fluid Dynamics

Course Objectives

This course is designed to give third year mechanical engineering students CFD techniques and the use of these techniques in the solution of problems of fluid dynamics.

Course Description

Introduction to computational fluid dynamics. Governing equations of fluid dynamics. Initial and boundary value problems. Classification of partial differential equations. Finite difference formulations, stability analysis. Parabolic equations: explicit and implicit methods. Elliptic equations: Gauss-Seidel and SOR Iteration. Hyperbolic equations.