Computational Fluid Dynamics

EXAM DATES
Dates of exams are 10 May 2015 and 17 May 2015. Timing : 1pm – 4pm. Exam can be taken on any of the 2 dates. The list of cities where the exam will be conducted will be available in the registration form.

For Tentative list of exam cities 
Please refer: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

REGISTRATION FOR CERTIFICATION EXAM
Certificate exam registration: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2079/application.html
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of Rs 1000, needs to be paid.

CERTIFICATE
Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will be jointly signed by Coordinator of IIT Madras and NPTEL and will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will also have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will also be e-verifiable on the nptel.ac.in/noc website.

ABOUT THE COURSE CONTENTS
All the lessons for this course are posted as videos and this completes the content for the course. This is what you will be tested on in the final exam.
2 assignments will be posted with complete solutions - one in March based on the first half of the course and one in April based on the second half of the course
Forum: The forum is available for students to post questions and get their doubts clarified mutually.

If you have any questions, please ask on the forum or mail us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR



Dr. Sreenivas Jayanti,
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Madras

COURSE OUTLINE

This course will cover basic concepts in Computational Fluid Dynamics which is describes as follows :
Illustration of the CFD approach; CFD as an engineering analysis tool. Derivation of flow governing equations; turbulence modeling; modeling approaches for multiphase flow; initial and boundary conditions; wellposedness. Discretization of the governing equations using finite difference/volume/element methods; concepts of consistency, stability and convergence; template for the discretization of a generic unsteady transport equation. Solution of discretized equations; direct methods; classical iterative methods; advanced methods for structured matrices; conjugate gradient techniques; multigrid methods. Solution of coupled equations: methods for compressible flows; evaluation of pressure in incompressible flows; pressure-velocity coupling algorithms. Structured and unstructured grids; structured grid generation; unstructured grid generation. Benchmarking; calibration.

SYLLABUS