BASICS OF CFD What is CFD? Numerical analysis of complex flow, heat and mass transfer problems.

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DISCRETIZATION OF FLOW DOMAIN

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Fluid Problem Fluid Mechanics

Comparison&A nalysis

Physics of Fluid Mathematics Navier-Stokes Equations Geometry

C F D
Numerical Methods

Simulation Results Computer

Computer Program Programming Language Discretized Form

Grids

Flow, energy and speciescontinuity equations are discretized

They are converted to algebraic equations

Discretization methods used:

Finite difference method Finite volume method Finite element method

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CFD ANALYSIS STEPS

GRID GENERATION
SOLUTION DOMAIN IS DIVIDED INTO NUMBER OF CELLS. FIELD EQUATIONS ARE DISCRETIZED FOR EACH CELL EITHER BASED ON CELL BOUNDARY OR CELL CENTER.

SUITABLE SOLUTION SCHEME IS CHOSEN FOR SOLVING DISCRETISED EQUATIONS FOR ALL CELLS.

A SET OF SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS ARE OBTAINED WHICH ARE SOLVED WITH BOUNDARY CONDITIONS.

INTERPRETATION OF DATA FROM PLOT

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v x v x x , y , z , t
z

t2
y

t1
x

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X-component

Y-component

Z-component

X Y Z

p xx vxvx xy v x v y xz v x v z
yx v y v x
p yy v y v y yz v y v z

zx v z v x
xx yx
zx

zy v z v y p zz vzvz
xy
yy zy

xz
yz
zz

TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION ABOUT POINT -1

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SUBSTANTENTIAL DERIVATIVE IN CARTESIAN CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM

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TOTAL DERIVATIVE AND SUBSTANTIAL DERIVATIVE ARE SAME.

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SCALAR TRANPORT EQUATION

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EULAR EQUATIONS

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