ENME 3651 & 4800 -- Computational Fluid Dyanmics (emphasis on Fluent)

Summer Quarter 2008

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Professor:
Corinne Lengsfeld

        Office: CMK 204
        Office hours: by email or before or after class

Location:
3-5pm MW             MET 14

Text:
None required 
Lecture notes and presentations will be provided to students via email in pdf form one day prior to class. Students are advised to print out the material and create their own text book from these materials.

Grades:
Grades will be based on the completion of tutorials and projects. Students are capable of obtaining percentages larger than 100%.

Project #1 -- 10%
Project #2 -- 10%
Project #3 -- 15%
Project #4 -- 20%
Project #5 -- 15% %
Fluent Tutorials (2% each) -- 14% or more
Gambit Tutorials (2% each) -- 12% or more
Participation/Other -- 4%

Notice this is a project based course. Each assignment turned in has a significant impact on the course grade. Student work quality and presentation should consistend with this level of expectation. Project assignments have a high degree of difficulty and students should be prepared to spend significant time obtaining a solution.

Policies:
All work must be handed in on time or you will receive a 5 point deduction for every 30 minutes the material is late. After  an assignment is 6 hours late it will only receives credit for  40% of its total score.  IT PAYS TO MEET DEADLINES, but working to complete a late assignment will always help your grade.

Work that is copied or plagiarized (this is my pet peeve so I strongly recommend against this)

1st offense = 0 credit on question or section in question
2nd offense = 0 credit on the entire assignment
3rd  offense = I will fail you in the course and seek action from the University.
Special case -- copying among students the 1st offense = the assignment will be graded and divide equally among the individuals involved ( i.e. 2 people copied, assignment score = 80 pt., each person will receive 40 pt.).

Homework Policy:
Homework will be due  by 5:00pm to my mail box in the department office. Homework that is turned in after the office closes needs to be placed under my office door with appropriate time written on the front cover.

Project #1: Development of a finite differencing code for a couette flow
Project #2: Fluent simulation of a pouiselle flow and comparison to analytical results
Project #3: Using Fluent simulations to understand mass transfer as a function of Reynolds number
Project #4: Using Fluent as a design tool to optimize a low speed airfoil
Project #5: Monte Carlo simulation of view factors form offset black body surfaces

**** Note that C++ random number generator does not truely produce a random group, it has a preferential distribution. If you chose this programing language you will have demonstrate that the rays are randomly oriented. You will likely need to find your own method of generating an initial group of random numbers.

Course Outline: (course content may change as need arises)

Date	Content	Reading
Jan 3, 5	Introduction to finite differencing / Project 1 assigned	Lecture 1
Jan 5, 10	Intro to control volume method	Lecture 2
Jan 10, 12, 19, 24	Fluent lectures/tutorials	Tutorials 1-23
Jan 26, 31, Feb 2, Feb 7	Gambit lectures/tutorials / Project #2 assigned (7th)	Tutorials 1-9
Feb 9, 14, 16	Explination of Project #3 / Open lab	Project 2 journal article
Feb 21, 23, 28, March 2	Explination of Project #4 / Open lab
March 7, 9	Introduction to Monte Carlo / Explination of Project #5 / Open lab

Last updated December 16, 2004