Fluent Europe Training - Overview of CFD for Project Managers

A stand-alone course providing an overview of CFD and its application for managers and evaluators of CFD projects. The intention of the course is to develop planning and evaluation skills.

The length of the course is one day. Training is from 9.15am to 5.00pm. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Prerequisites

The course assumes you have no prior experience of working with any CFD package.

Learning Objectives

This course will review what CFD is and the application areas to which FLUENT may be easily applied. Areas covered include:

• Planning process behind a CFD project,
• Focusing models towards solving engineering problems.
• Quality issues highlighting source of errors and uncertainty,
• Development of quality measures,
• Evaluation of CFD results.

Course Agenda

Quality and evaluation of a CFD project will be inline with the guidelines recommended by the ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group "Quality and Trust in Industrial CFD" Fluent Europe is a member and contributor to ERCOFTAC.

Overview of CFD and FLUENT

• Introduction to CFD
• Step by step to CFD
• Introduction to the FLUENT interface: Interactive demonstration.

CFD Project Planning

• Task Definition
• Resources and Skills
• Timing and Deliverables
• Design Review

Quality and Evaluation

• Sources of error and uncertainties
• Numerical errors, convergence and round off
• Turbulence modelling
• Application Uncertainties

Best Practice Advice for Industrial CFD

Worked case example

The day will be complimented by question and answer sessions.