AU3015 CFD and Heat Transfer Syllabus:

AU3015 CFD and Heat Transfer Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this course is to enable the students to understand the various discretization methods, solution procedures and turbulence modeling to solve complex problems in the field of fluid flow and heat transfer by using high speed computers.

UNIT I GOVERNING EQUATIONS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

Basics of computational fluid dynamics – Governing equations of fluid dynamics – Continuity, Momentum and Energy equations – Chemical species transport – Physical boundary conditions – Time-averaged equations for Turbulent Flow – Turbulent–Kinetic Energy Equations – Mathematical behaviour of PDEs on CFD – Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic equations.

UNIT II FINITE DIFFERENCE AND FINITE VOLUME METHODS FOR DIFFUSION

Derivation of finite difference equations – Simple Methods – General Methods for first and second order accuracy – Finite volume formulation for steady state One, Two and Three – dimensional diffusion problems –Parabolic equations – Explicit and Implicit schemes – Example problems on elliptic and parabolic equations – Use of Finite Difference and Finite Volume methods.

UNIT III FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR CONVECTION DIFFUSION

Steady one-dimensional convection and diffusion – Central, upwind differencing schemes properties of discretization schemes – Conservativeness, Boundedness, Transportiveness, Hybrid, Power-law, QUICK Schemes.

UNIT IV FUNDAMENTALS OF HEAT TRANSFER

Conduction in parallel, radial and composite wall – Basics of Convective heat transfer – Fundamentals of Radiative heat transfer – Flow through heat exchangers

UNIT V PHASE CHANGE HEAT TRANSFER AND HEAT EXCHANGERS

Nusselt’s theory of condensation – Regimes of Pool boiling and Flow boiling. Correlations in boiling and condensation. Heat Exchanger Types – Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient – Fouling Factors – Analysis – LMTD method – NTU method.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student will be able to
1. Derive the governing equations and boundary conditions for Fluid dynamics
2. Analyze Finite difference and Finite volume method for Diffusion
3. Investigate Finite volume method for Convective diffusion
4. Apply the concepts of heat transfer in three modes to real problems
5. Simulate the performance of heat exchangers

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ghoshdastidar, P.S., “Computer Simulation of flow and heat transfer”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., 2017.
2. Versteeg, H.K., and Malalasekera, W., “An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The finite volume Method”, Pearson Education Ltd.Second Edition, 2007.

REFERENCES:

1. Anil W. Date “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics” Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2. Chung, T.J. “Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Cambridge University, Press, 2002.
3. Ghoshdastidar P.S., “Heat Transfer”, Oxford University Press, 2005
4. Muralidhar, K., and Sundararajan, T., “Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer”, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2014.
5. Patankar, S.V. “Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow”, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 2004.