Academic Catalog

CE580 COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR FLUID DYNAMICS

Course Code: 5620580
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Civil Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ÝSMAÝL AYDIN
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Governing equations. turbulence models. Finite differences. errors and stability. Methods for wave. heat. Laplace. Burgers and Navier-Stokes equations. Grid generation. structured and unstructured mesh systems. Finite volume method. conservative discretization. approximation of surface and volume integrals. interpolation practices. implementation of boundary conditions.