AMME4210/AMME5202, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Course Outline

Lecturer: Prof. S. Armeld, Rm 422, e-mail steven.armeld@sydney.edu.au Tutor: Mr. Luth Luth, Rm 342, e-mail luth.luth@sydney.edu.au Syllabus Summary A course of lectures,tutorials and laboratories designed to provide the student with the necessary tools for using a sophisticated commercial CFD package. A set of laboratory tasks will take the student through a series of increasingly complex ow simulations, requiring an understanding of the basic theory of computational uid dynamics (CFD). The laboratory tasks will be complemented by a series of lectures in which the basic theory is covered, including: governing equations; nite difference methods; accuracy and stability for the advection and diffusion equations; direct and iterative solution techniques; solution of the full Navier-Stokes equations; turbulent ow; cartesian tensors; turbulence models. Objectives/ Outcomes Students will have a good understanding of the basic theory of Computational Fluid Dynamics, including discretisation, accuracy and stability. They will be capable of writing a simple solver and using a sophisticated commercial CFD package. Reference books:

Ferziger and Peric Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, (Springer1999) Anderson Computational Fluid Dynamics (McGraw-Hill 1995) Fletcher Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics, vols I and II, ( Springer 1988) Patankar Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, (Hemisphere 1983) Contact: 1 hr/week lecture 1 hr/week tutorial 2 hr/week laboratory/tutorial

Assessment: Tutorials 20% Assignments 60% Quizes 20%

Plagiarism: The university policy regarding plagiarism will be strictly enforced. Special Consideration: The departmental policy regarding special considerations will be strictly enforced. Tutorial: Eight tutorial problems will be distributed to be solved using ANSYS/Fluent, the commercial CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) package used for this course. The tutorials are intended to provide familiarity with ANSYS/Fluent as well as to cover the basic theory and practice of CFD. Each tutorial problem has two components. Firstly you will be required to set up and solve a specied problem. Once you have carried out this task you will be marked off during the lab session. The second component requires you to hand in plots and gures showing your solution, and answer some questions related to the theoretical basis of the problem. This component will be collected and marked. Tutorial problems must be completed and handed in within three weeks, after which late penalties will apply. A typical tutorial problem should take you two to four hours of work in the lab plus another two hours outside the lab. Satisfactory completion of tutorials is compulsory. Assignment: Four assignments will be set. The rst three, worth 10% of the total mark each and covering basic theory, will be due in weeks 5, 8 and 10. These assignments should take a typical student twelve hours to complete. The fourth assignment is done in groups, and requires the development of a substantial model, using ANSYS/Fluent, to solve a ow of your choice. You will be required to hand in a proposal for your ow in week 9 which will be returned to you with approval or modications in week 10. This is a major assignment, worth 30% of your total mark, and will require a substantial amount of time. A typical student should expect to spend forty hours on this. Quizes: Two quizes will be conducted, in weeks 6 and 12, worth 10% each, covering some of the basic theoretical material contained in the course. Tutorials. 1 Two-dimensional laminar duct ow. 2 Accuracy analysis of two-dimensional laminar duct ow. 3 Laminar ow over a backward facing step. 4 Physical scaling for ow over a backward facing step. 5 Turbulent ow over a backward facing step. 6 Turbulent ow over a cylinder. 7 Three dimensional ow. 8 Automatic grid renement.

Lectures. 1 Navier-Stokes equations. Solution approach. Explicit nite difference discretisation of diffusion equation. 2 Implicit nite difference discretisation of diffusion equation. Inversion. 3 Accuracy and stability. 4 Finite difference discretisation of the advection/diffusion equation. 5 Accuracy stability of the advection diffusion equation. 6 Jacobi. Gauss-Seidel. Direct. Alternating direction implicit. 7 Finite volume method 8 Solution methods for the Navier-Stokes equations Projection 9 Boundary conditions for velocity and scalars. Boundary conditions for pressure. 10 Turbulent ow Direct simulation 11 Turbulence models Cartesian tensors Mixing length k Reynolds Stress 12 Large eddy simulation.