This course offers attendees the fundamental knowledge for using CFD in real life engineering applications. Through a simple and moderately technical approach, this course describes the steps in the CFD process and provides benefits and issues for using CFD analysis in understanding of complicated flow phenomena and its use in the design process.

• Definition, Role, & Basic Formulation;
• Governing and Model Equations;
• CFD Process (Geometry & mesh generation, setup, initialization, boundary conditions, solving, monitoring, analysis, and visualization, assessing accuracy of numerical solutions)
• Turbulence and Heat Transfer Modelling
• CFD Best Practices

Best practices for reducing errors and uncertainties in CFD analysis are also presented. Many of the governing equations will be presented for illustration purposes but will not be dealt in depth in this course. Strong effort is made for the course to be CFD software neutral. However, examples from some of the more well-known and popular software will be used throughout the sessions.