Academic Catalog

AEE546 COMPUT.FLUID DYNAMICS ON UNSTRUCT.GRIDS

Course Code: 5720546
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Aerospace Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ÝSMAÝL HAKKI TUNCER
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Navier-Stokes equations in integral form. waves and the Riemann problem. one-equation turbulence models. unstructured grid generation. Delaunay triangulation. advancing front triangulation. Finite volume Method. flux evaluation. Euler forward/backward time integration. higher order reconstruction of flow variables. solution-adaptive unstructured grids. Total Variation Diminishing schemes and limiters. Essentially Non Oscillatory schemes. preconditioning methods for low speed flows. GMRES iterative solution method. parallel processing on unstructured grids. message-passing libraries: MPI and PVM