Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics

By Prof. Rajesh Ranjan | IIT Kanpur

Learners enrolled: 1838 | Exam registration: 158

ABOUT THE COURSE:
The primary goal of this course is to familiarize faculty members, students and researchers with fundamental concepts of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and enable them to numerically solve fluid flows. This course will primarily cover the basics of flow computations with emphasis on classification of partial differential equations, numerical discretization, stability and convergence of schemes, shock-capturing, and boundary conditions. Various approaches for simulating fluid flows including RANS, LES and DNS will be introduced, and basics of turbulence modeling will be discussed in detail.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG and PG students in chem/mech/civil/aerospace engg. departments

PREREQUISITES: Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Numerical Methods

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: HAL, NAL, ISRO, DRDO and Private Automobile and Aerospace Industries (Airbus, Boeing, Tata Motors etc.)

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Aerospace Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jul 2024
End Date :	11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	02 Nov 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Week 1:Review of Basic Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics

Week 2: Forms of Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations, Non-dimensionalization

Week 3: Classification of PDEs, Model Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic Equations

Week 4: Finite Difference Method: Explicit and Implicit Schemes

Week 5: Numerical Solutions of Model equations

Week 6: Numerical Schemes: Consistency, Stability and Convergence

Week 7: Upwind Schemes, Shock-capturing Schemes, Compact Schemes

Week 8: Boundary Conditions

Week 9: Introduction to Finite Volume Method

Week 10: Numerical Solution of Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, Case Studies

Week 11: RANS Equations, Turbulence Models

Week 12: Introduction to LES, DNS and Hybrid Schemes

Books and references

1. Versteeg H.K. & Malalsekera W. (1995) An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, Essex, UK.
2. Anderson J.D. (1995) Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
3. Laney, Culbert B. (1998) Computational Gasdynamics. Cambridge university press, 1998.

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajesh Ranjan

IIT Kanpur

Prof.Rajesh Ranjan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru Center from Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru. Prior to joining IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 2021, he worked as Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The Ohio State University. He also has an industrial experience of working in the Tata Computational Research Labs, Pune for three years.Prof.Ranjan is a computational fluid dynamicist who works in the areas of aerothermodynamics of turbomachinery and high-speed flows, unsteady aerodynamics of wings and fuselage, and transition-to-turbulence. He has designed and taught several courses at IIT Kanpur and has twice received the Director’s commendation for ‘Outstanding Teaching’.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 02 November 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

SWAYAM Helpline / Support