CFD Problem Set

Date: 13/09/2017

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1. Using Taylors series, derive the second-order central difference for y .

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2. Derive a third order accurate one-sided difference expression for y at a wall.
3. Write laplaces equation in polar coordinates. Write the discretized form of it using central
differencing. Use indices i,j in radial and polar directions respectively.
4. Derive the stability criterion for the numerical solution of the two-dimensional heat
equation (only conduction) using the explicit FTCS discretization on a square grid of size

x .

In addition to the book by Anderson, you may find some of the content covered in the lectures
from another book co-authored by another Anderson (
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Computational_Fluid_Mechanics_and_Heat_T.html?id=C
v4IERczJ4oC&redir_esc=y&hl=en ). Here are a few problems from this book:

(T.E. stands for truncation error; h is the grid size; numerator is central differenced for 1st
derivative and denominator denotes the second derivative with central difference. See equations
3.13 to 3.15 and 3.36 of the book mentioned above for details on these operators.)
Apart from this, study the matrix representation of system of equations (after discretization)
which leads to tridiagonal matrix of coefficients for 1D heat equation.

Also, read about Gauss Seidel.