Computational Fluid Dynamics

Hendrik Seehausen, M.Sc.

The course teaches the basics of computational fluid dynamics. The fundamental aerodynamic mechanisms considered in this course can be transferred to the simulation of turbomachinery, aircraft, and biomedical applications. Methods to discretize the partial differential equations and to solve the associated system of equations will be introduced and analyzed. To this end, various methods to analyze the stability of numerical schemes and different sources of errors will be investigated. Finally, different models for the simulation of turbulent and transitional flows will be discussed.

• Basic equations of computational fluid dynamics
• Discretization with the finite difference and the finite volume method
• Stability analysis of numerical schemes
• Solution methods for partial differential equations
• Modeling of turbulent and transitional flows
• Examination and analysis of numerical schemes with Python

• Fluid Mechanics I
• Fluid Mechanics II
• Heat Transfer I

• Lecture notes
• Ferziger, Peric: Numerische Strömungsmechanik, Springer, 2008
• Hirsch: Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flow - The Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Elsevier 2007
• Anderson, J. D. JR: Computational Fluid Dynamics, The Basics with Applications, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math