The lecture is about selected topics in this field of application, thereby the focus is on practical usage of methods that can be applied to related technical problems.
From the content
- Basics of continuum mechanical flow modelling
- Numerical meshing, grid generation, finite volume methods for complex geometries
- Finite volume methods for incompressible flows, upwind schemes, flux-blending, pressure correction scheme
- computation of turbulent flows, statistical turbulence modelling (RANS), k-ε-Modell, Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
- solving large linear equation systems, ILU decomposition, CG solver, preconditioning
- Adaptivity, multigrid methods, sparse grids. parallel computing
- Lattice-Boltzmann-Method
Details
Lecture name | Computational Fluid Dynamics |
Term | Winter |
Lecturer |
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. M. Schäfer Consultation hours: Thu 11.00 – 12.00, Room S4|10 418 |
Responsible assistant | H. Meier, M.Sc. |
Beginning of lectures |
October 24th, 2023 Details can be found in the corresponding Moodle course. |
Lecture dates |
Tuesday 13.30 – 15.00 Thursday 13.30 – 15.00 |
Room | S4|10 1 |
Credit points | 6 |
Examination |
Examination either in person or on Zoom, depending on the pandemic situation. Registration via e-mail at the FNB office (Mrs. Müller) from December 5th. As soon as the exam date has been appoved, registration in TUCaN is permitted. The exams will start in February 2024. |
Further information and material | see TUCaN |
Recommended literature |
Schäfer, M.: Computational Engineering, Springer, Second Edition, 2022 Schäfer, M.: Numerik im Maschinenbau, Springer, 1999 |
Related tutorial | Computational Fluid Dynamics |

Recommended literature
Title: Computational Engineering – Introduction to Numerical Methods Edition: 2nd Edition Author: Michael Schäfer Publisher: © Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 2022 ISBN: 978-3-540-30685-6
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