URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=4RC30&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
Description of the proposed course or description of the proposed change(s) in the course (Please mention the main topic of the course, what do you expect students to learn, and which instructional methods (project, lectures, CBL, etc.) do you plan to use).The basis of the course is the principle that the transport of mass, momentum, energy, etc. can be described by one general transport equation. This equation contains the following elements:
Accumulation + convection = diffusion + source term
For solving the transport equation boundary conditions, physical parameters (such as density and viscosity) and a solution algorithm are required. The course consists of 8 lectures and 6 computer tutorials, which will be completed in the first 4 weeks. Below a list of topics per lecture/practice is given. Through computer tutorial sessions the student learns to implement flow problems in a CFD computer program. During the rest time of the course, students will perform a group assignment using the acquired knowledge and skills to solve a flow problem that comes from their own interest.
- Transport equations and diffusion problems
- Convection-diffusion problems
- Solving of transport equations
- Non stationary flow problems
- Turbulence
- Boundary conditions
- Chemical reactions
- Outlook on multiphase flow modelling
Objectives
Students are able to:- formulate the general transport equation both in words and in written form;
- explain the analogy between transport equations of different quantities (e.g. transport equations of mass and momentum);
- to formulate an equation for the accumulation term, diffusive transport, convective transport, and/or a source term;
- motivate the choice for a discretization scheme for convective transport;
- explain the SIMPLE algorithm and the role of the pressure term for solving transport equations in words;
- explain the necessity of turbulence modeling from a practical point of view;
- explain the k-epsilon turbulence model in words;
- formulate boundary conditions for transport equations
- explain two different models for chemical reactions