APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS


                                               15ME40E APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

COURSE OUTCOMES 

Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to  

CO1: Apply computational techniques for solving engineering problems. (K3) 

CO2: Discuss the fundamentals and procedures used in CFD/FEM. (K3)

 CO3: Apply CFD to analyze the fluid flow. (K4) 

CO4: Apply CFD to analyze the thermal systems. (K4) 

CO5: Perform static and dynamic analysis using FEA in structural members.(K4) 


  UNIT I GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 

 Basics of computational fluid dynamics - Governing equations of fluid dynamics - Continuity, Momentum and Energy equations - Physical boundary conditions - Laminar and Turbulent Flow - Turbulent-Kinetic Energy Equations – Mathematical behaviour of PDEs on CFD -Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic equations.
 
UNIT II TURBULENCE MODELS AND MESH GENERATION 

 Turbulence models, mixing length model, Two equation (k-Є) models - High and low Reynolds number models - Structured Grid generation - Unstructured Grid generation - Mesh refinement - Adaptive mesh - Software tools.

 
UNIT III APPLIED PROJECTS CFD – I 

Internal Fluid flow - Pipe bends, Branch and lateral-Symmetric - Transient - Header Flow Distribution Post processing - Different CFD Outputs : Contour plots - Surface Plots, Plotting, Vectors, Turbulence Modeling External Flow - Flow over a circular cylinder, simple car and aero plane.

UNIT IV APPLIED PROJECTS CFD – II 

 Radiation problems - Heat Transfer distribution - Porous media - Pump - Fan - Gaseous Combustion -Particle Study - Multi phase problems.
 
UNIT V APPLIED PROJECTS FEA 

Stress - Strain - FOS -Machine elements under Static Structural Loads - Modal Analysis Thermal Analysis - Vibrations - Non-Linear Analysis.
 
L:30; P:30;TOTAL:60 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS

 1. Versteeg, H.K., and Malalasekera, W., "An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The finite volume Method", Pearson Education Ltd.Second Edition, 2007.

 2. Jiyuan TL, Guan HengYeoh, “Computational Fluid Dynamics A Practical Approach” Butterworth-Heinemann, First Edition 2008.
 
 
REFERENCES

 1. Hyoung Woo Oh, “Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics”, InTech Publishers, 2012.

 2. Chung, T.J. "Computational Fluid Dynamics", Cambridge University, Press, 2002. 

3. Ghoshdastidar P.S., "Heat Transfer", Oxford University Press, 2005.

 4. Muralidhar, K., and Sundararajan, T., "Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer", Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 1995. 

5. ProdipNiyogi, Chakrabarty, S.K., Laha, M.K. "Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics", Pearson Education, 2005.