NAME 363: Computational Fluid Dynamics

3.00 Credit. 3 hrs/wk.

Prereq.: NAME 123, NAME 223

Introduction. Governing equations of fluid flow. Green's theorem, Boundary integral methods and its application to radiation and diffraction problems, Discretisetion schemes: finite difference methods, finite volume methods, finite element methods, spectral methods etc. Grid generation. Flow visualization and frictional resistance computation for double body flows using Navier-Stokes equations.

Free surface flow, free surface computation with linear and fully nonlinear conditions. Numerical treatment of fluid-body interface, turbulence modeling. CFD application to free surface flow past ship shape objects using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes Equation (RANSE).


Resource for students:

Grid Generation from CFD book by Hoffmann and Chiang

Two-boundary and Multi-surface methods of Grid Generation

Download following codes to generate grid around NACA0012 Airfoil

Two-boundary.f     Multisurface.f

Generate C-grid around NACA0012 Airfoil using PDE method

cgrid_mmk.f        input_mmk