Computational Fluid Dinamics in Aerospace Engineering

• Introduction to the need and limitations of CFD as a research tool. 
• Understanding of the fluid dynamics governing equations. 
• Provide an insight into some numerical techniques. 
• Introduction to a CFD commercial tool (Ansys/Fluent).

• Description of the course:
  

1. Introduction to CFD 
2. Fluid dynamics governing equations 
3. Classification of partial differential equations 
4. Discretization:
   4.1   Finite differences
   4.2   Finite volume 
5. Numerical analysis 
6. Some simple CFD techniques 
7. Turbulence

• Assessment:

Exercises.

CFD project.

5 ECTS – Second semester

Ricard González Cinca

1. J.D. Anderson, Computational Fluid Dynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1995. 
2. J.D. Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, McGraw-Hill, 2001. 
3. K.A. Hoffman, S.T. Chiang, Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers, Vols. 1,2, Engineering Education System, 1993. 
4. H. K. Versteeg and W. Malalasekera, An introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Pearson Prentice Hall, 1995. 
5. W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, B.P. Flanner, Numerical Recipes in C/Fortran, Cambridge University Press, 1994.