Fundamental Training
Fluid Mechanics
Concept of continuum, streamline, streakline and pathlines, Buoyancy, Lagrangian and Eulerian Descriptions, Reynolds transport theorem, Integral and differential form of conservation equations, Viscous and inviscid flows, Laminar and turbulent flows, Euler and Navier Stokes equations.
Heat Transfer
Fundamentals of Conduction, Convection and Radiation, Velocity and thermal boundary layers, External forced convection, Internal forced convection, natural convection, Heat transfer by radiation, Conjugate heat transfer.
Numerical Methods
Overview of Finite Difference, Finite Volume Methods, Upwind and downwind schemes, Simple and Simpler PV-Coupling, Higher order methods, Implicit and explicit methods, Steady and transient solutions, consistency, convergence, and stability.
Turbulence Modeling
Theory of turbulence, Closure problem, Reynolds Averaged N-S equations (RANS), Eddy viscosity models, Algebraic models, One equation models, Two equation models, Near wall treatment, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct numerical simulation (DNS).
Geometric Modeling and CAD Repair
File formats and translators, Fundamentals of CAGD, Concept of topology, Creation of water tight geometry, Healing the geometry.
Structured Grid Generation
Linear interpolations, Transfinite interpolations, Laplace grid generation, Poisson grid generation, Map and submap, Sweeping, Surface grid generation, Mono block, multi block, Hierarchical multi block, Grid clustering and grid enhancement.
Unstructured Grid Generation
Basic theory of unstructured grid generation, advancing front, Delaunay triangulation and various point insertion methods, Unstructured quad and hex generation, grid based methods, Concept of medial axis and medial surface, various elements in unstructured grids, Surface mesh generation, Surface mesh repair, Volume grid generation, Volume mesh improvement, mesh smoothing algorithms, grid clustering and quality checks for volume mesh. ICEM-CFD
Geometry import and repair
Geometry creation in ICEM-CFD
ICEM-CFD Tetra Meshing
Extracting fluid domain and creating body
Controlling mesh through global meshing parameters
Local meshing parameters on edges and surfaces
Tet/Prism and Hexa-core Meshing
Surface/shell meshing
Concept of patch dependent and independent meshing
Mesh editing techniques
ICEM-CFD Hexa Meshing
Concept of multiblock grid generation technique
C, H and O topology
2D and 3D block creating techniques
Block split operations
Generation and manipulation of O-Grid
Vertex merge and edit block operations
Vertex move and alignment operations
Association and projection
Pre-mesh parameters and control
Exporting mesh for different solvers
ANSYS FLUENT
- Basic steps for CFD analysis using FLUENT
- GUI and TUI mode
- Reading and manipulating the grid
- Boundary conditions basics and its mathematics
- Solver basics
- Solver mathematics
- Modeling conjugate heat transfer
- Modeling turbulent flows
- Modeling domain with moving and deforming mesh
- Overview of multiphase flows
- Post processing
