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Modelling Computational Fluid Dynamics with Open-Source Code

Code 16121
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload PL(15H)/T(30H)/TP(15H)
Scientific area Mechanics and Electrotechnics
Entry requirements Fluid Mechanics or similar course
Learning outcomes On successful completion of this course unit, students should be able to:
• Understand the governing flow equations for common flow problems and to understand why discretization of a domain into a mesh is required.
• Understand why boundary conditions need to be applied
• Understand numerical solution methods and their limitations
• Construct a case for the simulation of an incompressible, steady state, fluid flow in OpenFoam
• To Conduct more advanced CFD simulations in OpenFoam
Syllabus • Introduction to CFD
• Mathematical description of the physical phenomena: conservation equations
• Finite volume methods and Space and time discretization of the physical domain
• Mesh generation
• Application to problems of Problems of pure diffusion
• Application to problems of Advection and diffusion
• Application to problems of Flow field calculation
• CFD application to practical configurations.
Main Bibliography •S.V. Patankar, Numerical Heat Transfer and Heat Flow, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1980.
•J.H. Ferziger e M. Perré, Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Springer, New York, 1997.
• H. Versteeg e W. Malalasekra. An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method. Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed., 2007.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-06-15

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