CFD of External Aerodynamics and Turbomachinery

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to course

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Chapter 2: Problem description of workshop on missile

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Boundary layer, first cell height and Y+

Chapter 3: Geometry processing in Spaceclaim

Lecture 1: Opening Spaceclaim and important commands

Lecture 2: Importing cad model and changing display properties of geometry

Lecture 3: Cleaning geometry, re-creation of important surfaces and making solids

Lecture 4: Creating final missile model with fins as single part

Lecture 5: Fluid domain creation and saving file

Chapter 4: Workshop 2: Tetra Prism mesh generation in ICEM CFD

Lecture 1: Introduction, opening ICEMCFD, Working directory and surface resolution

Lecture 2: Creating Parts for boundary conditions

Lecture 3: Mesh settings and volue mesh generation using Octree method

Lecture 4: Improving surface mesh quality using laplace smoothing

Lecture 5: Creating density boxes and delaunay mesh

Lecture 6: Problem Description

Lecture 7: Prism mesh generation and editing

Lecture 8: Mesh info and mesh export for Fluent and CFX

Chapter 5: Workshop 3: Problem setup, solution and post processing in Fluent for Missile

Lecture 1: Opening mesh file, material properties, turbulence model and mesh units&quality

Lecture 2: Boundary conditions, solution settings and running case

Lecture 3: Post processing results and mesh adaptation for shock wave resolution

Chapter 6: Introduction and problem description for workshop 6,7&8

Lecture 1: Introduction and problem description for workshop 6, 7& 8

Chapter 7: Workshop 6a : Centrifugal Fan – Creating assembly

Lecture 1: Aligning Fan rotor and inlet cone

Lecture 2: Aligning Scroll with Fan rotor & Inlet cone

Lecture 3: Some advanced features of assembly creation in spaceclaim

Chapter 8: Workshop 6b : Creating centrifugal fan CFD model in Spaceclaim from iges model

Lecture 1: Importing IGES file and applying some preliminary settings

Lecture 2: Moving file to origin, deleting interface region and creating lines

Lecture 3: Recreating important surfaces

Lecture 4: Separating different components and some processing

Lecture 5: Creating final model of scroll with extended region at outlet

Lecture 6: Creating final model of Inlet-Cone with extended region at inlet

Lecture 7: Creating final model of centrifugal fan impeller

Chapter 9: Workshop 7 : Tetra-prism meshing of Centrifugal Fan

Lecture 1: Introduction and file import into ICEMCFD

Lecture 2: Creating Tetra-Prism mesh for Inlet-Cone and export in fluent format with BCs

Lecture 3: Creating Tetra-Prism mesh for Volute/Scroll : Build topology and parts

Lecture 4: Creating Tetra-Prism mesh for Volute/Scroll : Mesh generation and export

Lecture 5: Creating Tetra-Prism mesh for centrifugal fan impeller

Chapter 10: Turbomachinery CFD modeling in Fluent

Lecture 1: Introduction and discussion about SRF and MRF

Lecture 2: When to use MRF?

Lecture 3: Setting up SRF model in Fluent

Lecture 4: Setting up Frozen Rotor model in Fluent and mesh interfaces

Lecture 5: Setting up mixing plane model in Fluent

Lecture 6: Setting up sliding mesh model in Fluent

Lecture 7: Boundary conditions for rotating and stationary domains

Lecture 8: Summary of different turbomachinery models in Fluent

Lecture 9: Difference between Frozen rotor, mixing plane and sliding mesh model

Lecture 10: Best practices for different type of simulation cases

Chapter 11: Workshop 8 : Frozen Rotor analysis of centrifugal fan in Fluent

Lecture 1: Launching fluent and Importing three domain mesh files using append command

Lecture 2: Setting up interfaces and Frozen Rotor model

Lecture 3: Turbulence model, near wall treatment, boundary layer and Y+

Lecture 4: Y+ contours for SST and K-Epsilon realizable model with scalable wall functions

Lecture 5: Boundary condition

Lecture 6: Solution methods & controls, residuals & monitors and solution

Lecture 7: Basic post processing of centrifugal fan : Contours, Vectors and Pathlines

Lecture 8: Generating Fan performance map – Advanced level post processing

Lecture 9: Creating solution animation

Chapter 12: Workshop 9: Ahmed Body CFD – Problem Description and important details

Lecture 1: Introduction to Ahmed Body workshop series

Lecture 2: Objectives of this workshop

Lecture 3: Problem description and geometry details

Lecture 4: Domain dimensions and general discussion of results and settings

Chapter 13: Workshop 9: Ahmed Body geometry generation in design modeler

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Starting workbench and design modeler

Lecture 3: 3_Ahmed body Sketch with all dimensions

Lecture 4: 3D model generation using extrude command

Lecture 5: Adding 4 legs using extrude and pattern commands

Lecture 6: Round, unite and rotate body to required location

Lecture 7: Creating domain for Ahmed body, symmetric model and removal of legs

Lecture 8: Creating named selection for boundary conditions

Lecture 9: Project and geometry open, save in different formats

Chapter 14: Workshop 9: Geometry editing of Ahmed Body in Spaceclaim

Lecture 1: Symmetric model using combine command

Lecture 2: Removing legs and moving origin to base of Ahmed body

Lecture 3: Mirror command to get full model using half model

Chapter 15: Workshop 9: Tetra-Prism mesh of Ahmed Body in ICEM CFD

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Y+, First cell height, and Y+ calculator in excel

Lecture 3: Discussion on hybrid wall functions by Knopp

Lecture 4: Boundary layer, first cell height and Yplus on Ahmed body

Lecture 5: Geometry import and creation of parts

Lecture 6: Global Mesh Size and Size function

Lecture 7: Setting mesh sizes on parts

Lecture 8: Creating density box for local mesh refinement in wake region

Lecture 9: Computing volume mesh using two methods and surface mesh smoothing

Lecture 10: Generating boundary layer mesh using prisms

Lecture 11: Mesh export and creating three meshes for mesh independence

Chapter 16: Workshop 9: Problem setup and solution in Fluent

Lecture 1: Problem setup in Fluent along with reference conditions

Lecture 2: Solving case in Fluent with optimum settings

Chapter 17: Workshop 9: Post processing of flow around Ahmed Body in Fluent