Flow Dynamics

Laboratory manager Esa Muurinen
Researchers Tiina M. Pääkkönen and Timo Kulju

Contents: Mathematical modelling of flow phenomena using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Developing the Navier-Stokes equations describing the fluid flow. Solving partial differential equations. Application of computer programs for fluid flow in problem solving. Course lectured in Finnish.

Literature: Anderson J.D.: Computational Fluid Dynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1995, 608 pp. Hämäläinen J. & Järvinen J.: Elementtimenetelmä virtauslaskennassa, CSC – Tieteellinen laskenta Oy, 1994, 212 pp. Versteeg, H.K. & Malalasekera, W.: An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1995, 257 pp. Tavoularis, S.: Measurements in Fluid Mechanics, 2005, 354 pp.