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Fundamentals of Computational Thermofluids

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with the needed knowledge and skills, which enable them to activate and practice the main steps of simulating the mass, momentum and energy transfer across the domains of interaction inside the power systems. In addition, many different phenomena encountered in the mechanical power engineering fields are explained.
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

MEP311s

Description

  • English Description

    Governing Equations of the Reactive and Non-Reactive Flow Fields, Boundary and Initial Conditions, Finite Difference Approximation, Errors, Convergence, Stability and Consistency, Discretization, Order of Accuracy and Discretization Schemes, Convergence Criterion, Control Volume Approach, Heat and Fluid Flow Diffusion and Convection, Examples of Convection-Diffusion Partial Differential Equations in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Source Terms, Jet Flow, Jet Flow with Chemical Reaction, Simple Turbulence Models, Advantages and Disadvantages of Numerical Solutions.
  • Arabic Description

    Governing Equations of the Reactive and Non-Reactive Flow Fields, Boundary and Initial Conditions, Finite Difference Approximation, Errors, Convergence, Stability and Consistency, Discretization, Order of Accuracy and Discretization Schemes, Convergence Criterion, Control Volume Approach, Heat and Fluid Flow Diffusion and Convection, Examples of Convection-Diffusion Partial Differential Equations in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Source Terms, Jet Flow, Jet Flow with Chemical Reaction, Simple Turbulence Models, Advantages and Disadvantages of Numerical Solutions.
  • Department
    Mechanical Power Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Student Activities (35 = tr.Industry 5% , tr.Project 20% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • - S. V. Patankar. Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, 4th Ed., Mc-Graw Hill Company, 2018.
  • - T. B. Gatski. Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows, 3ed Ed., ., John Wiley& Sons, 2015.
  • - C. Hirsch. Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows, 1st Ed., John Wiley& Sons, 2012