Introduction to CFD

1 Basics of Discretization
1.1 Finite- Difference representation of Partial Differential Equations.
1.2 Discretization and Round off error.
1.3 Consistency, Stability and Convergence.
2 Two dimensional Laplace equation
2.1 Finite-Difference representation of Laplaces equation.
2.2 Unique solution to the Laplace equation with given Boundary condition.
2.3 Iterative Methods
2.3.1 Jacobi iteration.
2.3.2 Guass Seidal iteration.
2.3.3 SOR.
2.4 Rate of convergence.
3 One dimensional 1st order Linear wave equation
3.1 Finite-Difference representation of 1-D linear wave equation.
3.2 Euler explicit and implicit methods (FTFS, FTBS, FTCS, BTCS).
3.3 Modified equation.
3.3 Von Neumann stability analysis.
4 One dimensional Heat equation
4.1 Finite-Difference representation of 1-D Heat Equation.
4.2 Simple Explicit Method.
4.4 Von Neumann stability analysis.
5 1-D Euler equation
5.1 Governing equations.
5.2 Derivation of Eigen values and Eigen vectors.
5.3 Boundary conditions.
5.4 Introduction to Finite volume method.
6 Introduction to Multigrid method

Advanced fluid mechanics

1 Basic Concepts in incompressible flows
1.1 Steady and unsteady flows.
1.2 Streamlines, pathlines, vorticity and circulation.
1.3 Reynold's Transport theorem.
2 Governing equations
2.1 Continuity Equation.
2.2 Momentum Equation.
3 Exact solution for the Navier Stokes equations
3.1 Couette Flow.
3.2 Poiseuille flow.
3.3 Couette Poiseuille flow.
3.4 Stoke's I & II problem.
4 Potential flows
4.1 Source and sink flows.
4.2 Doublet flow.
4.3 Combination of flows.
5 Laminar Boundary Layer Theory.
5.1 Derivation of boundary layer equations.
5.2 Boundary Layer over a flat plate with zero pressure gradients.
5.2.1 Similarity Approach.
5.2.2 Integral Analysis.
5.3 Approximate solution (Karman Pohlhausen method).
5.4 Displacement Thickness and Momentum Thickness.
5.5 Theory of boundary layer seperation.
6 Introduction to Instability
6.1 Orr-Sommerfield stability equation.
6.2 Stability curve.
7 Introduction to turbulence
7.1 Characteristics of turbulence.
7.2 Reynold's decomposition.
7.3 Homogenous and isotropic turbulence (Defn only).
7.4 Turbulence modeling.