(Course taught as part of the practical classes for AeroStream students.)

Lecturer: Asst. Prof. Sudip Bhattarai (Aerospace Science and Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)

Lecture Duration: 12 hrs (3 hrs per week)

Time: Sunday, March 20th, 1 pm – 4 pm.

Venue: D-Hall, Block-D, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Central Campus, IOE.

Objectives:

To familiarise students to numerical techniques for solving basic conduction and diffusion equations using finite volume method, meshing techniques in ICEM and the solver Fluent, and introduce them to the open-source CFD tool OpenFOAM.

Pre-requisites:

Basic Aero-thermodynamics; Numerical methods; Basic programming skills in C/C++.

Contents:

Lecture Day-1: Finite Volume Method treatment of Navier-Stokes equations; Programming basic conduction and diffusion equations in MATLAB; solution of partial differential equations in MATLAB  PDE Toolbox.

Lecture Day-2: Meshing in (ANSYS) ICEM and solution of basic flow examples in Fluent.

Lecure Day-3 & 4: Introduction to OpenFOAM; Running test cases; Solvers and solver setup; Programming and compiling.

Contact:

sudip@ioe.edu.np; +977-9860026391; Office 205-B, Block-D, IOE Central Campus (Pulchowk)

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