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Course Detail

Course Name Fluid Dynamics
Course Code 24MAT540
Program Integrated M. Sc. Mathematics and Computing
Semester Elective
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Summary

Review of Conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy; coordinate systems;Eulerian and Lagrangian approach, Conservative and non-conservative forms of the equations, rotating co-ordinates. 

Classification of system of PDEs: parabolic elliptic and hyperbolic; Boundary and initial conditions; Overview of numerical methods; Review of Finite Difference Method, Introduction to integral method, method of weighted residuals, finite elements finite volume method & least square method. 

Numerical Grid Generation: Basic ideas, transformation and mapping, unstructured grid generation, moving grids, unmatched meshes. Finite Volume Method: Basic methodology, finite volume discretization, approximation of surface and volume integrals, interpolation methods – central, upwind and hybrid formulations and comparison for convection-diffusion problem; Basic computational methods for compressible flows. Advanced Finite Volume methods: FV discretization in two and three dimensions, SIMPLE algorithm and flow field calculations, variants of SIMPLE, Turbulence and turbulence modelling, illustrative flow computations.

Text Books / References

  1. Anderson D A, Tannehill J C, and Pletcher R H, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, 1997.
  2. Ferziger, J. H. and Peric, M., Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, 3rd edition, Springer. 2003.

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