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Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Lecturer: 
Course Type: 
PhD Course
Academic Year: 
2020-2021
Period: 
May
Duration: 
20 h
Description: 
Description/Contents: 
  • Introduction to CFD, examples.
  • Constitutive laws
  • Incompressible flows.
  • Numerical methods for potential and thermal flows
  • Boundary layer theory
  • Thermodynamics effects, energy equation, enthalpy and entropy
  • Vorticity equations
  • Introduction to turbulence
  • Numerical methods for viscous flows: steady Stokes equations
  • Stabilisation (SUPG) and inf-sup condition
  • Numerical methods for nonlinear viscous flows: steady Navier-Stokes equations (Newton and Fixed Point vectorial methods)
  • Discretisation techniques for steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations.   
  • Worked problems/CFD exercises session based  FEM by FEniCS(-X) by Dr Francesco Ballarin   
Location: 
A-133
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