About This Course

Course Overview

This comprehensive course introduces the practical application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) across various engineering disciplines. Participants will learn fundamental concepts such as geometry modelling, mesh generation, numerical solutions, and post-processing techniques, all tailored to address a range of essential flow scenarios in academic and industrial settings. This course guides participants in executing CFD simulations for flows of significant industrial relevance and practical importance through a step-by-step approach.

Learning outcomes

• Following completion of this course, you will be able to:
• Analyse external flows, both laminar and turbulent, using CFD technique and compute forced exerted by the flow over bodies of different shapes
• Execute different heat transfer scenarios and analyse cases involving fluid and thermal coupling.
• Identify the need of transient simulations and setup transient flow problems and obtain accurate results by choosing appropriate mesh and time step sizes.  
• Perform intermediate level multiphase studies involving two fluids
• Setup CFD simulations requiring dynamic mesh movement and predict the movement of rigid bodies in a flow

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to Practical CFD-Finite Volume Method, domain modelling-simplifications, aspects to consider, basics of mesh generation-structured and unstructured, overview of user interfaces of Fluent Solver, getting started with the post processing-different types of plots and graphical representations of simulation results. Rayleigh

Module 2: Some basic flow simulations: Flow over a flat plate, flow past a stationary cylinder, Rayleigh-Benard convection, supersonic flow over a diamond aerofoil

Module 3: Instabilities in flows: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Module 4: Heat transfer: Heat transfer augmentation in a circular pipe using tape inserts, film cooling of flat plate/turbine blade, Conjugate Heat Transfer analysis of a plate heat exchanger

Module 5: Multiphase flow: Application of volume of Fluid Model-Flow structure of a half-filled spinning cylinder, Melting and Solidification-Thermal management using PCM

Module 6: Moving Reference Frame and Dynamic Mesh: Analysis of a vertical axis wind turbine-6DOF analysis, flow induced oscillation of a cylinder-1DOF analysis.