Syllabus
Elective Streams General Electives
Lab Content 45 hours
- Simulation of Li-ion battery module
- Simulation of hydrogen fuel cell
- Simulation of IC engine using Ansys Forte
- Simulation of one way fluid structure interaction
- Simulation of single stage axial compressor using sliding
- Simulation of heat transfer in electronic printed circuit boards and
Unit 1
Introduction to CFD: Classification of PDEs Simplifications, Building Blocks of CFD, Mathematical description of fluid flow and heat transfer-Conservation equations for mass, momentum, energy and chemical species- Classification of partial differential equations.
Unit 2
Discretization techniques: Discretization techniques using finite difference and finite volume formulations. Steady and unsteady one-dimensional heat conduction, One dimensional steady convection and diffusion. Formulations for Convection-Diffusion problems, Upwinding, Explicit, Semi-implicit and Fully Implicit formulations for unsteady problems, Stability analysis. The concept of false diffusion, QUICK scheme, TVD schemes and flux limiter functions.
Unit 3
Modelling: Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations, primitive variable approach, SIMPLE Algorithm, SIMPLER Algorithm, Unstructured Grid Formulation, Introduction to Turbulence Modeling, spray and combustion modeling, Adaptive mesh refinement, Applications to practical problems using Open Foam/PyCFD and other commercial softwares.
Objectives and Outcomes
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Course Objectives
- To introduce the basic governing equations and understand the basic properties of
- To familiarise different discretization techniques and solving methods for improving
- To apply the knowledge while solving real time physical problems using simulation
Course Outcomes
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Understand the classification of PDEs, governing equations and basic properties of computational
methods.
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Apply finite volume method to solve steady and unsteady diffusion, advection-diffusion problems.
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Apply the various discretization methods, solution procedures and turbulence modelling to solve flow
and heat transfer problems.
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Apply the knowledge to interpret, solve and analyse engineering flow problems.
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3
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Skills Acquired
Relate any physical problem in computational domain with right boundary conditions. Ability to analyze and interpret the results using CFD tools.
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