Fundamentals and Developments in Computation Fluid Dynamics

Date: Sunday, July 29, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $100

Instructor: Dr. Nip Shah, Hamilton Sundstrand

Course Overview
This course contains a comprehensive view of the state of the art of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) including many recent developments not found in current texts. The course begins with the fundamental equations and solution methods and then continues to recent developments and some practical advice on the solution of difficult problems.

Who Should Take This Course
The course is meant to give engineers a fundamental appreciation of the inner works of some of the commercially packages programs and most recent developments in CFD. A background in CFD is useful but not essential. The course should also be of great help to those faced with decisions regarding the integration of CFD into their design process.

Topics include:

• Introduction - Classes of problems and industrial use of CFD
• Fundamental equations and discretization
• Turbulence modeling
• Boundary treatment
• Multi-species and multi-phase models
• Geometry discretization (meshing)
• An overview of solution methods
• Postprocessing
• Fluid-structure interaction
• Parametric studies
• Design Optimization

Instructor Profile

Dr. Nip Shah, Hamilton Sundstrand

Currently Principal Engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand B.Sc. Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK Fellow of the ASME Work experience: 20 years at Hamilton Sundstrand, all aspects of start to production of combustors for APU's, thermal analysis of all the gas turbine components, designing secondary airflow and compartment cooling. Prior to that, 3 Years at Rolls Royce in the theoretical combustion department and 8 years at Imperial college. As a research fellow, developing computational methods for gas turbine combustors. Including calculation of radiative heat transfer (Discrete Transfer), meshing methods, solution methods, flows, fuel injection and droplet evaporation.

Brief Bio Dr. Nip Shah is a principal design engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand. He started his career in Computational Fluid Dynamics in 1975 at imperial College, London, where the finite volume methods for CFD originated. Dr Shah's method: "The Discrete Transfer Method" is still considered to be the most accurate way of calculating Radiative Heat transfer in complex geometries and temperature distributions. After some years at Rolls Royce, UK, he has spent the last 20 years at Hamilton Sundstrand, designing and analyzing various aspects of APU's. He has extensively used CFD (primarily FLUENT & ANSYS) for predicting combustion chamber performance and compartment flows. Dr Shah also teaches PE Mechanical and EIT classes at University Of California, San Diego extension.