Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat transfer detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (Mech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech 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 Mechanical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9 Basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics – Governing equations- Continuity, Momentum and Energy equations – Boundary conditions & Types- Time-averaged equations for Turbulent Flow – Classification and Mathematical behaviour of PDEs on CFD – Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic equations, comparison between Analytical, Experimental and Numerical techniques, Techniques of Discretisation and Numerical errors
Unit II
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Unit III
FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR CONVECTION DIFFUSION 9 Steady one-dimensional convection and diffusion – Central, upwind differencing schemes, properties of discretization schemes, Hybrid, Power-law, QUICK Schemes, Computation of Boundary layer flow, von Neumann stability analysis.
Unit IV
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Unit V
TURBULENCE MODELLING 9 Turbulence model requirement and types, mixing length model, Two equation (k-C) models – High and low Reynolds number models, LES, DNS, Mesh Generation and refinement Techniques-software tools, Stability of solver, Courant Fredrick Levy number, relaxation factor, and grid independence test.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Versteeg, H.K., and Malalasekera, W.,An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The finite volume Method, Pearson Education, 2014 .
- Ghoshdastidar, P.S., Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Reference Books:
- John. F. Wendt, Computational Fluid Dynamics – An Introduction, Springer, 2013.
- K. Muralidhar & T.Sundararajan, Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Narora Publishing House, 1994.
- Suhas V, Patankar, Numerical Heat transfer and Fluid flow, Taylor & Francis, 2009.
- Uriel Frisch, Turbulence, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Yogesh Jaluria & Kenneth E. Torrance, Computational Heat Transfer, CRC press, 2002.
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