Section outline

  • An introduction to Computational Fluid Dynaics (CFD) and Numerical Heat Transfer (NHT), with some  historical notes, emerging trends and future perspectives. 

    • Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Part 1 File

      In this first introductory part, the fundamental aspects of CFD are addressed, in particular:

      • What is CFD
      • Areas of application of CFD
      • Limits and capabilities of CFD techniques
      • Historical notes
        • The beginning of CFD and CHT 
        • The evolution of CFD and CHT |
        • The rise of commercial CFD
        • The Open Source alternatives
        • Recent achievements and emerging trends
      • Applications of CFD
        • Some relevant examples
      • CFD components
        • CFD Ingredients
      • CFD workflow
      • Numerical Methods in CFD
        • Properties of numerical methods in CFD

    • Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Part 2 File

      In this second part - aimed especially at students attending only the course Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics - the main characteristics of the numerical methodologies commonly used in CFD are briefly illustrated.