Turbulent flows in Fluid Machinery: generalities and features of industrial turbulent processes. 4 hours.
Navier Stokes equations system: continuity and momentum transport. 3 hours
Energy and concentration transport equations. Boundary Conditions. 3 hours.
(U)RANS approaches for industrial turbulent flows modelling: linear eddy viscosity closures. 5 hours
Wall treatment for (U)RANS approaches: wall function and integration to the wall. 5 hours
Mesh generation: general rules, needs of refinement and exercises (in MATLAB). 5 hours
(U)RANS approaches for industrial turbulent flows modelling: overcoming the limitation of basic formulations by using non linear eddy viscosity closures. 3 hours
Second Moment Closures. 4 hours
LES&DNS approaches for turbulent flows simulation. SGS modelling: Smagorynsky, Dynamic Smagorinsky, WALE. 3 hours.
Hybrid models: approaches for merging URANS and LES. 3 hours.
Multi-phase flows: particles and droplets laden flows. 3 hours.
Compressible flows: introduction. 2 hours.
Compressible flows: conservation principles. 3 hours.
Compressible flows: quasi-one dimensional stationary flows. 3 hours.
Discretisation of partial differential equations: finite differences and finite volumes method (including sample exercises about thermal field propagation and convective flow in MATLAB). 8 hours.
Introduction to an open source code: T-FlowS and performance illustration. 5 hours.
Work project
T-FlowS: Computing CFD of a case of industrial pertinence using URANS (homework).

Course Slides (Available on Drive)

Suggested reading
Pope. Turbulent Flows. Cambridge University Press. 2000.
Sultanian. Fluid Mechanics, an intermediate approach. CRC Press. 2015
Lakshminarayana. Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery.Wiley and Sons. 1996.
Hanjalic and Launder. Modelling Turbulence in Engineering and the Environment. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
Hanjalic et al. Analysis and Modelling of Physical Transport Phenomena. VSSD. 2009