MAE 7370 Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR Fall. 4 credits. Prerequisites: graduate standing; advanced course in continuum mechanics, heat transfer, or fluid mechanics; and some MATLAB, C++, or other programming experience. Next offered 2010–2011.
Numerical methods are developed for the elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations that arise in fluid flow and heat transfer when convection and diffusion are present. Finite-difference, finite-volume, and some spectral methods are considered, together with issues of accuracy, stability, convergence, and conservation. Current methods are reviewed. Emphasis is on steady and unsteady essentially incompressible flows. Assigned problems are solved on a digital computer.