Tutorial Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • type: Practice (Ü)
  • chair: KIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • semester: WS 25/26
  • time: Tue 2025-10-28
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly


    Tue 2025-11-04
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-11-11
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-11-18
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-11-25
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-12-02
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-12-09
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-12-16
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2025-12-23
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-01-13
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-01-20
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-01-27
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-02-03
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-02-10
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Tue 2026-02-17
    14:00 - 15:30, weekly


  • lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Alexander Stroh
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bettina Frohnapfel
  • sws: 2
  • lv-no.: 2154534
  • information: Blended (On-Site/Online)
Content
  • Introduction and Motivation, Fundamental Equations and Dimensionless Numbers
  • Turblence and Modelling (DNS, LES, RANS);
  • Numerical Solution of the Navier Stokes Equations:
    Discretization and Solution Approaches (FDM, FVM), boundary and initial conditions, stability, mistakes in numerics and modelling
  • Set-up of a numerical simulation: pre- and postprocessing, validation, result evaluation, discussion of results
  • Introduction to open-source toolbox OpenFOAM:
    set-up of simulation, generation of numerical grid with different tools, data evaluation within OpenFOAM and with python;
  • Introduction to a research oriented toolbox for turbulent flows (DNS based o Incompact3d): set-up of simulation, statistical evaluation and analysis with MATLAB und python;
  • visualisization of simulation results in ParaView

This course includes a lecture and a computer course. The limited places in the computer course will be distributed by the institute.

Language of instructionGerman
Organisational issues

Dienstag, 14:00 bis 15:30 Geb 10.23 R609