Faculty of Engineering & Technology, SRM University, Kattankulathur ~ 603203
School of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Course plan
Course code ME1151 Date: 16/5/15
Course title :COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Semester 5
Academic year/ — : 2015-"16/Odd
semester (uly ~ November 2015)
Section details:
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Name Room | Intere | e-mail id Student
No. om contact
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Mr MEHIO [1824 sudhakar.p@ktrstmuniv.ac.in | 12.30-1.30
P.Sudhakar_| 2A AM
DIRECT ASSESSMENT DETAILS
Name of | Marks Topi Tentative date | Duration
assesment
Cyele test T 10 Governing Equations Finite difference 27.07.2015 100 minutes
method
Surprise test | 5 Solution Techniques ‘Aug 2015 | 10-15 minutes
‘Cycle test 2 0 Solution techniques , Mattices and 24.08.2015 | 100 minutes
Jacobians
‘Aitendance 5
| Model 20 Entire syllabus 1 12.10.2015 3 hours
examination
End semester 50 Entire syllabus 13.11.2015 3 hours
examinationSyllabus of the course:
7 COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
eis: Prerequisite |
Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics and Heat Transfer
PURPOSE
To impart knawledge about various computational methods of fluid low and solve simple uid flow problems
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. [The formulation of governing equations for fluid flow and their mathematical behavior.
\Vatious discretization techniques.
ferent techniques to solve the numerical equation
to solve the problem.
2.
3.
4, [Development of various types of a
5.
‘The finite volume approach to discretize the governing equations
UNIT I - GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIOR OF PARTIAL
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE’S) (hours)
Introduction - Governing equations - Continuity - Momentum and energy equations ~ Conservation
and non-conservation form of equations - Physical boundary conditions. Mathematical behavior of
partial differential equations (PDE’s) - Classification - Hyperbolic, elliptic, parabolic, wel posed problems.
UNIT HI - DISCRITIZATION TECHNIQUES (tours)
Method of discretization - Finite differences - Various finite difference methods -Discretization of wave
equations and Laplace equation, numerical error and stability analysis.Time dependent methods -
Explicit, implicit and Crank Nicholson method.
UNIT III - SOLUTUION ‘TECHNIQUES (hours)
The LaxWandroff technique - MacCormmaks technique ~ Relaxation method -TDMA - Thomas
algorithm - Alternation direction implicit technique - Pressure correction technique SIMPLE algorithm.
UNIT IV - GRID GENERATION (hours)
General transformation of the equations - Matrices and Jacobians - Stretched grid - Adaptive grid and
compressed grid. Boundary fitted coordinate systems -Modern development in grid generation,
UNIT V - INTRODUCTION 10 FINITE VOLUME METHODS AND EXAMPLES WITH DIFFERENT
METHOD (9 hours)
Finite volume methods of discretisation - Various solutions techniques, Solution of steady and transient one
dimensional heat conduction problem using different methods,
TOTAL: 45TEXT BOOKS
1, Anderson J.D., “Computational Fluid dynamics", MeGraw Hill Int., New York, 2010.
2. Versteeg H.K., and Malalasekera W., An introduction to computational fluid dynamics, “The finite
volume method”, Longman, 2007.
REFERENCES
1 Subas.V. Patankar, “Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow”, Hs
2009.
2, Muralidbar-K, and Sundararaan.T, “Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer ”, Narosa
Publishing House, New Delhi, Second Edition, 2008,
3. Ghoshdasdidar.S, “Computer simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer”, Tata MeGraw Hill
Publishing Company Lid., 1998.
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