MIA 502E - Num.Meth.In Fluid Flow&Heat T

Course Objectives

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

Course Description

Basic aspects of 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. ADI method. Elliptic equations: Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR Iteration. Vorticity-Stream Function formulation. Hyperbolic equation: Lax-Wendroff, MacCormack’s method. Euler equations. Grid generation.