Lecturer:
Course Type:
PhD Course
Master Course
Academic Year:
2025-2026
Period:
April
Duration:
20 h
Description:
Topics/Syllabus
- Introduction to CFD, examples.
- Constitutive laws
- Incompressible flows.
- Numerical methods for potential and thermal flows
- Boundary layer theory
- Thermodynamics effects, energy equation, enthalpy and entropy
- Vorticity equations
- Introduction to turbulence
- Numerical methods for viscous flows: steady Stokes equations
- Stabilisation (SUPG) and inf-sup condition
- Numerical methods for nonlinear viscous flows: steady Navier-Stokes equations (Newton and Fixed Point vectorial methods)
- FEM Discretisation techniques for steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations.
- Worked problems/CFD exercises session based FEM by FEniCS(-X) by Dr. Davide Oberto
Lecture details:
Tuesday April 21, 2026: 11-13, room 134
Tuesday April 21, 2026: 15-17, room 133
Thursday April 23, 2026: 11-13, room 134
Tuesday April 28, 2026: 14-16, room 134
Wednesday April 29, 2026: 15-17, room 136
Friday May 8, 2026, 14-16, room 134
Friday May 15, 2026, 11-13, room 133
Tuesday May 19, 2026, 14-16, room 133
Wednesday May 20, 2026, 11-13, room 136
Thursday May 21, 2026, 11-13, room 133
Friday May 22, 11-13, room 133
Exercises sessions at the end of the course will be confirmed at a later date.
Some dates/Hours are subject to changes due to institutional duties.
Research Group: