Academic Catalog

MECH584 ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Course Code: 3650584
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Masters
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Governing equations, waves, scalar conservation laws, the Reimann problem, conservation and other basic principles, the CFL condition, upwind and adaptive stencils, artificial viscosity, linear and nonlinear stability, basic numeral methods for scalar conservation laws (Lax-Friedricks method, Lax-Wendroff method, first-order upwind methods, Beam-Warming second-order upwind method), basic numerical methods for Euler equations (flux approach, flux vector splitting, reconstruction-evolution), implementation of boundary conditions, introduction to parallel computing.