Fluent

ANSYS Fluent is a powerful computational fluid dynamics software package used to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications. Fluent also offers highly scalable, high-performance computing (HPC) to help solve complex, large-model computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations quickly and cost-effectively.

Course Syllabus:

Introduction to CFD:

     The principles of CFD and governing equations will be covered in details.

 

ANSYS Workbench interface (GUI):

     Starting up a project on ANSYS workbench.

 

CAD modelling & CAD clean-up:

     Introduction to Design Modeller (DM). Creating components in DM. Importing geometry from other CAD tools and cleaning up geometry.

 

Mesh:

    Generation and refinement of mesh. Grid independence study.

 

Fluent Interface (GUI):

     Navigate through Fluent GUI.

 

Boundary conditions:

     Types of boundary conditions and their fidelity.

 

Incompressible flow:

     Solving problems using the incompressible nature of liquids and flowing gases.

  • Internal flow - Flow through pipes.

  • External flow - Flow over a flat plate.

 

Turbulent mixing:

     Importance of turbulence modelling.

  • Mixing of two flowing liquids.

 

Heat Transfer:

    Analysing heat transfer problems.

  • Forced convection in pipe flow.

 

Compressible flow:

Introduction to compressible flow.

  • Flow through a nozzle.

 

Unsteady flow:

Problems that come under the category of unsteady flow.

  • Flow past a cylinder.

 

Post Processing (covered along with all analysis):

     Verification and validation of results.

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