CAIRO UNIVERSITY

FINAL EXAM - 2015

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING TIME: 3 hours
MECH. POWER DEPARTMENT
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Attempt all questions. The exam has questions worth ~ marks and is graded from 1Q marks
only.

Question 1 <18 poinql: Circle the correct answer where appropriate.

(1) The transport equation is a model equation for fluid-flow problems

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(b) False

(2) The 2nd order accurate schemes have the highest numerical dissipation in the simulations
(a) True tj-
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(3) For a boundary value problem, when the property is specified at the boundary then the type
of the boundary condition is
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(b) Neumann
(4) ln ANSYS FLUENT software package, the method of solving the transport equations is
(a) Direct method
~) Indirect method
(S) The stead)!:state form of the transport equation in the absence of diffusion is
r(a) an elliptic equario!2)
(b) a parabolic equation
(c) a hyperbolic equation
(6) Diffusion process has no directional preference and hence should be discretized
using the central-differencing scheme.
(a) True

(7) The finite-volume technique solves

(a) the differential fonn of the fluid-dynamics equations
) the integral fonn of the fluid-dynamics equations
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(a) dissipative
(b) dispersive