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Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Lecturer: 
Course Type: 
PhD Course
Academic Year: 
2022-2023
Period: 
May - June
Duration: 
20 h
Description: 
  • 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)
  • Discretisation techniques for steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations.   
  • Worked problems/CFD exercises session based  FEM by FEniCS(-X) by Dr Michele Girfoglio 

Dates/Time:  (subject to small changes due to some last minute institutional duties)

  • Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 15:15 to 18:00 in 132
  • Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:15 to 13:00 in 133
  • Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 16:15 to 19:00 in 133
  • Wednesday, June 14, 2023 -16:15 to 18:00 in 133
  • Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 11:15 to 13:00 in 136
  • Thursday, June 15,  2023 - 16:15 to 18:00 in 133
  • Friday, June 16, 2023 - 11:15 to 13:00 in 133
  • Friday, June 16, 2023 - 14:15 to 17:00 in 133  (Exercises)

 Please send to gianluigi.rozza@sissa.it a message if you are attending in order to get some material before the lectures (slides, biblio) and the LINKS for online connections!

Location: 
SISSA main campus (if necessary for motivated reasons by lecturers or students on a Zoom Link)
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