Computational Aero Dynamics detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AUTO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AUTO 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to AUTO Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of computational aero dynamics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMICS 9 Need of computational fluid dynamics, philosophy of CFD, CFD as a research tool as a design tool, applications in various branches of engineering, models of fluid flow finite control volume, infinitesimal fluid element, substantial derivative physical meaning of divergence of velocity, derivation of continuity, momentum and energy equations, physical boundary conditions significance of conservation and non-conservation forms and their implication on CFD applications strong and weak conservation forms shock capturing and shock fitting approaches.
Unit II
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Unit III
BASIC ASPECTS OF DISCRETIZATION 9 Introduction to finite difference: finite difference approximation for first order, second order and mixed derivatives, explicit and implicit approaches, truncation and round-off errors, consistency, stability, accuracy, convergence, efficiency of numerical solutions. Von Neumann stability analysis, physical significance of CFL stability condition. Need for grid generation, structured grids artesian grids, stretched (compressed) grids, body fitted structured grids, H-mesh, C-mesh, O-mesh, I-mesh, multi-block grids, C-H mesh, H-O-H mesh, overset grids, adaptive grids, unstructured grids: triangular, tetrahedral cells, hybrid grids, quadrilateral, hexahedral cells.
Unit IV
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Unit V
FINITE VOLUME METHODS 9 Basis of finite volume method, conditions on the finite volume selections, cell-centered and cell vertex approaches. Definition of finite volume discretization, general formulation of a numerical scheme, two dimensional finite volume method with example.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- J. D. Anderson, Jr., Computational Fluid Dynamics- The Basics with Applications, McGraw-Hill Inc, 2012.
- D. A.Anderson, J.C.Tannehill, R.H. Pletcher, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, 1st Edition, 1997.
Reference Books:
- Hirsch, C., Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows: The Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. I, Butter worth-Heinemann, 2nd Edition, 2007.
- Hoffmann, K. A. and Chiang, S. T., Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers, Engineering Education Systems, 4th Edition, 2000.
- Patankar, S.V., Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Hemisphere Pub. Corporation, 1st Edition, 1980.
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