Introduction to CFD

1 Basics of Discretization
1.1 Finite- Difference representation of Partial Differential Equations.
1.2 Truncation error, Round off and Discretization error.
1.3 Consistency, Stability and Convergence.
2 Two dimensional Laplace equation
2.1 Finite-Difference representation for Laplaces equation.
2.2 Direct Methods
2.2.1 Cramers rule.
2.2.2 Gaussian elimination.
2.3 Iterative Methods
2.3.1 Jacobi iteration.
2.3.2 Guass Seidal iteration.
2.3.3 SOR.
3 One dimensional 1st order Linear wave equation
3.1 Finite-Difference representation of 1-D linear wave equation.
3.2 Euler explicit and implicit methods (FTFS, FTBS, FTCS, BTCS).
3.3 Von Neumann stability analysis.
4 One dimensional Heat equation
4.1 Finite-Difference representation for 1-D Heat Equation.
4.2 Simple Explicit Method.
4.3 Simple Implicit Method.

Incompressible Fluid Flow

1 Basic Concepts in incompressible flows
1.1 Steady and unsteady flows.
1.2 Streamlines, pathlines, vorticity and circulation.
1.3 Reynold's Transport theorem.
2 Governing equations
2.1 Continuity Equation.
2.2 Momentum Equation.
3 Exact solution for the Navier Stokes equations
3.1 Couette Flow.
3.2 Plane Poiseuille flow.
3.3 Couette Poiseuille flow.
3.4 Stoke's I & II problem.
4 Potential flows
4.1 Source and sink flows.
4.2 Doublet flow.
4.3 Combination of flows.
5 Laminar Boundary Layer Theory.
5.1 Derivation of boundary layer.
5.2 Boundary Layer over a flat plate with zero pressure gradients.
5.2.1 Similarity Approach.
5.2.2 Integral Analysis.
5.3 Approximate solution (Karman Pohlhausen method).
5.4 Displacement Thickness and Momentum Thickness.