Aguinaga instructor huang lines cfd course project

MAE 598/494 Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics Fall 2018 Tuesday/Thursday 1:30-2:45, Classroom: PSY 102

Instructor: Huei-Ping Huang (hp.huang@asu.edu), ERC 359

No required textbook. Instructor will provide tutorials and lecture notes as needed. Attendance is mandatory.

Planned activities

Plan for the semester

I. Lectures
1. Survey of basic fluid mechanics and thermodynamics as preparation for the projects (4 weeks)
2. Survey of numerical methods for deepening the understanding of the functionality of Ansys-Fluent or similar industrial software (6 weeks)
3. Discussion on more advanced topics in CFD (e.g., turbulence modeling) (3 weeks)

Project 1: Fluid system with heat transfer
Project 2: External flow (calculation of drag and lift; Reynolds number dependence) Project 3: Compressible flow system
Project 4: Low Reynolds number flow; Microfluidics
Project 5: Moving boundary and moving grid
Project 6: Flow with an interface (two-phase or multi-phase)

Grade: Projects & homework - regular tasks ~ 90% Final exam (in-class test) 10%

Many commercial/industrial CFD solvers are available on the market.

This class will use almost exclusively Ansys-Fluent but might include A quick exercise of a quick survey on other CFD solvers (Comsol, AcuSolve, Abacus, Autodesk Flow Design, etc.)

Using Autodesk Flow Design - Model setup

Example 2 Internal flow - using Ansys-Fluent

Stream lines

Low wind condition (U = 0.25 m/s)

[Applied CFD course project, Fall 2015, Z. Damania (Instructor: HP Huang)]

Example 4 Comparison of numerical simulation with lab experiment Currents and waves in a rotating water tank
(which emulate large-scale environmental flows)

Geometry & mesh
(N. Kulkarni , 2012, Applied Project)