In this module, you learn the basics of FEA, various types of simulations along with their significance, and also develop a mathematical understanding of the implicit and explicit schemes.

The topics that will be covered in this module are, 

• Introduction to FEA 
• Type of FE simulation 
• Explicit and Implicit mathematical definition

In this module, we will cover surface preparation in full detail. Here you will learn the following:

• Setting up the piston motion profile
• Boundary flagging
• Setting up the intake and exhaust valves

In this module, you will learn the following concepts:

• How to choose the right turbulence model?
  • K-Epsilon Vs K-Omega SST
• Understanding Y+
• Turbulent and boundary layer theory
• Usefulness of viscosity ratio

You will simulate shock flow problems and learn how Adaptive Mesh Refinement can be used to capture the shock location accurately.

In Aerodynamics, a student needs to familiarize themselves with how different physics are captured by mathematical models. Without understanding this concept, you will not be capable of correctly setting up an external flow simulation. We will cover the following physical modules:

• Turbulence modeling
• Conjugate Heat Transfer
• Combustion modeling
• Spray modeling

In this module, you will learn how the SAGE detailed chemical kinetics solver works. In addition to this, you will learn how to use the Shell CTC combustion model.

To design an efficient engine, one needs to have a firm grasp of emissions modeling. You will learn about the Hiroyasu Soot Model and the Zeldovich Nox model and apply them in engine simulations.

This week will take you through the basic theory on Fluid Mechanics and FLUID dynamics. We will cover the basic fundamental properties that are used to describe a fluid flow along with general CFD methods

• Types of fluid properties
• Newtonian and Non Newtonian fluids
• Description of fluid flows
• Overview of CFD methods

Aerodynamics plays a very important role while designing a particular product which is exposed to environments that will affect its purpose. In this video, you will learn

• Role of aerodynamics in design
• Parameters of focus
• Instruments used in aircraft
• Similarity parameters
• Aerodynamic forces and moments

The quality of the mesh and the elements you use determines the accuracy of the result that you obtain. Using ICEM CFD, you will be introduced to steps to create a suitable domain for a helicopter fuselage. The domain will be meshed with tetrahedral and prism elements. Quality parameters to assess your mesh will also be introduced to you. In this video, you will 

• Be introduced to ICEM CFD
• Understand the steps to setup your domain in ICEM CFD
• Generate a mesh for your geometry
• Assess the quality of the mesh

You can find airfoils in many aerodynamic applications. If you can’t find it, then you would probably have to take a cross sectional view to properly visualize it. For example, the cross section of an airplane wing is in the shape of an airfoil. The airfoil shape helps in generating the necessary forces to help the airplane fly. In this video, you will

• Be introduced to what an airfoil is
• Understand the forces acting on an airfoil
• Use ICEM CFD to generate the domain required to analyse the flow over an airfoil
• Generate the mesh for two cases
• Incompressible flow over airfoil
• Compressible flow over airfoil
• Assess the quality of the mesh

You would have visually experienced turbulent flow of a fluid by simply opening the tap in your kitchen. The fluid flow will follow an unruly nature once you increase the flow. This is a simple example. Turbulent flows can have negative effects on your product when it flows through air. If you take the example of your car, having highly turbulent flow in certain regions can lead to sources of noise generation and can also affect the performance of your car. Through CFD simulations, it has been made possible to capture this turbulent phenomena to better design your product. In this video, you will

• Be introduced to what exactly turbulence is
• Learn why it is important
• Understand how to model turbulent flows
• Understand the turbulence models available in commercial CFD packages.

Using the mesh created in the previous week, you will be taken through how to setup a simulation to analyse the aerodynamic forces on a NACA0012 airfoil. In this video, you will ,

• Learn how to setup your simulation for analysing aerodynamic forces on an airfoil
• Analyse the results for various angles of attack

There can be two types of motion in fluid flow problems. One is rectilinear and the other one is rotary. Till now, we spoke about rectilinear motion. In order to simulate rotary motion, you need a different approach. In this video, you will 

• Learn about moving zones
• Approaches to model moving zones
• Moving reference frame
• Moving mesh
• Learn about types of mesh encountered at interfaces
• Run a simulation to understand moving zones

From the two approaches discussed in the previous video, we will use a turbomachinery model to compare the application of both methods and compare the results. In this video, you will

• Use a turbomachinery component to compare MRF and MM approach
• Setup the simulation with appropriate parameters
• Analyse the results

An air compressor is a common turbomachinery component with a large number of moving parts. It is quite difficult to model the entire component. Hence, we will take a sector of the component and apply a periodic boundary condition to the geometry. We will use the FLUENT Console to employ periodic zones in the simulation. In this video, you will

• Work on a sector a large air compressor
• Setup periodic zones in FLUENT console
• Setup the simulation to analyse the turbomachinery component
• Analyse the results

Noise is generated by an aerodynamic body when it is moving through air. The shape of the body determines the sources that generate this noise. For a car, the mirrors, gaps between the wheels etc are regions of noise generation. Manufacturers use CAA( Computational Aero-Acoustics) to study such sources and minimise the discomfort caused by it to the customer. In this video, you will

• Learn about acoustics
• Learn about acoustic analogy methods
• CAA methodologies

The broadband acoustic solver is one of the CAA methodologies mentioned in the previous section. In this video, we will use the broadband solver to analyse the noise sources over an Ahmed Body. An Ahmed body is a simplified car body that was developed in 1984. This model is used for validation purposes. In this video, you will

• Use ANSYS Mesher to generate the mesh for your domain
• Setup a symmetric model in FLUENT
• Run the acoustic solver to analyse noise sources

In this module, you will understand what is CFD and its uses. After your first class, you will be able to understand, on a basic level, 

• Governing equations of fluid motion
• Numerical discretization
• The term fluid solver
• Boundary conditions
• Post-processing

Once we do this, we will have a rigorous approach to learn MATLAB/Octave

In this module, the focus is to simulate basic compressible and incompressible flows using Ansys Fluent. You will be getting hands-on experience in

• Geometry creation
• Meshing
• Boundary and Initial condition calculation
• Setting up solution algorithms
• Solving and post-processing

• Geometry creating using space claim
• How to setup steady-state simulations
• Checking for convergence and understanding when the simulation converges for different Boundary Conditions
• How to create runtime animation of engineering parameters
• Project 1 - HVAC simulation inside a mixing TEE
• Project 2 - Simulating flow inside a gate valve
• Project 3 - Performance characterization of a cyclone separator

Meshing is an important component in CFD analysis. Improper meshing can lead to bad results. In this module, you will learn the different meshing techniques that Ansys Fluent offers.

• Setting up virtual wind tunnels using the enclosure utility
• Item 2
• Understand vorticies, calculating downforce & drag on a vehicle
• Y+ estimation & grid refinement.

In this module, you will learn how to simulate solid side heat transfer along with the fluid flow. Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) refers to simulating multiple modes of heat transfer. For example, in one of the projects you will simulate the heat transfer in an exhaust manifold when hot exhaust products are flowing through it (see image below). When you complete this module, you will be able to do the following

• Extracting solid and fluid volumes
• Creating shared topologies for creating conformal meshes
• Setting up volumetric heat sources
• Visualizing heat transfer co-efficient distribution

Discrete Phase Modelling (DPM) is used to model particles, fuel drops, coal, and any other type of suspended phase. You will work on problems like cyclone separator, where you will incorporate the DPM approach to simulate how suspended impurities travel through a cyclone separator.

Write customized program and create different monitor points and take the relevant information you need to form the simulation.

In this module, you will learn how to simulate reacting flows using Ansys Fluent. This includes combustion applications.

You will use an advanced pre-processing tool that helps you to set up the simulations until the solving process. It is widely used in the industry for a wide range of CAE applications. Learning pre-processing by working on industry-relevant projects will boost your profile significantly.

Exploring buttons and its functions available under the TOPO module. At the end of this session

• You will become familiar with module buttons
• Different surface editing, recovering functions
• Creation of references on working geometry

Getting to know the surface mesh and different buttons available under the respective module. At the end of this session, you will be capable of

• Surface mesh creation with different mesh generation techniques
• Mesh editing, regenerating, reconstructing techniques
• Working on elements, warping, volume formations basics

• Exploring mesh parameters and their impacts on the surface mesh
• Learning how to create and assign a batch mesh on geometry
• Introduction to various mesh quality criteria and assigning values to them.
• Clearing quality criteria on a surface mesh using various techniques.

• Part creation, editing, grouping, moving techniques
• Assigning properties, materials, creating sets

• Mastering various isolation techniques, cut sections views, measuring methods.
• Learn to move, copy, creating links between parts.
• Learning transform, translate, symmetry, rotation techniques.

• Learning how to perform a geometry check ensuring the creation of watertight volume.
• Performing surface meshes checks to clear proximities, penetrations, bounds, etc.
• Creating a complete check manager list file and execution.

• Performing auto-manual detection of volumes
• Assigning PIDs to volumes and creating volumes list
• Volume mesh generation methods structured and unstructured

In this module, you will understand what CFD is and its uses. After your first class, you will be able to understand

• Governing equations of fluid motion
• Numerical discretization
• The term "fluid solver"
• Boundary conditions
• Post-processing

Once we do this, we will have a rigorous approach to learn MATLAB/Octave.

In this course, you will be writing solvers and getting your hands dirty with different numerical methods. Before we do this, it is very important to understand the essential mathematical concepts that you will encounter.

• Series expansion and Taylor's table
• Understanding the type of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and their characteristics
• How elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic PDEs relate to the physics of fluid
• Powering through divergence, curl and gradient
• Types of linear systems
• Different ways to solve matrices
• Computing integral quantities in arbitrary volumes

When we reach this point in the lecture, you are will have the essential knowledge in math, programming and fluid physics to start CFD. We will teach you Von-Neumann stability analysis along with a practical example.

OpenFOAM is an open-source toolbox with an in-built numerical solver and pre/post processors for solving CFD problems.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how OpenFOAM solver is structured
• Learn how to pick a solver
• Create meshes using blockmesh and SnappyHexMesh