ME 567
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Information
4 Credits
Available: Yearly, either Winter or Spring term
Lecture only
OSU Catalog

 Prerequisites
ME 312
ME or ENGR 331

 Contact
Deborah Pence
(541) 737-7018
316 Rogers

Course Description

Basic concepts of computational fluid dynamics, a technique used for solving fully three-dimensional fluid flow problems with no exact solution, will be discussed and applied to general engineering applications using commercially available software.

Topics

  • Software basics
  • Conservation laws in conservative form
  • Turbulence modeling
  • Finite volume method
  • Diffusion
  • Convection-diffusion
  • SIMPLE method
  • Auxiliary conditions
  • Uncertainty, validation, and verification
  • Transient analysis

Learning Outcomes

The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:

  • Independently develop a computational solution with valid spatial, and temporal if applicable, grid spacing and advective discretization scheme.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the inner workings of commercial software via application of course topics to small-scale engineering problems.
  • Validate a computational solution using experimental or theoretical analyses.