Numerical flow simulation

This course provides practical experience in the numerical simulation of fluid flows. Numerical methods are presented in the framework of the finite volume method. A simple solver is developed with Matlab, and a commercial software is used for more complex problems.

Some numerical methods are presented for the discretization and resolution of the steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations and simpler advection-diffusion equations, in the framework of the finite volume method. A basic in-house code is developed with Matlab for simple problems.

The overall modeling and simulation workflow is presented: pre-processing (geometry and mesh creation), set-up and computation (choice of physical models and numerical methods, flow calculation), validation and post-processing (visualization and analysis). A state-of-the-art commercial software (Fluent) is used to study practical applications.