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.