Skills for using modem computational aerodynamics are becoming increasingly important in the aerospace industry, Four critical tools are required for a complete toolchain: geometry preparation, meshing, flow solver, and visualization. This IAP course will give students a practical tutorial on how to use these tools to predict the aerodynamic performance of aircraft designs and investigate the aerodynamic flow field.

In this IAP course, you will learn how to construct a water-tight geometry for typical aircraft configurations, with parts including fuselage, wings, typical tails, nacelle, and propeller blades. You will generate surface and volume meshes for such geometry suitable for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solutions, making informed decisions on what regions the surface mesh and volume mesh should be refined. You will perform Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations using the generated mesh, using appropriate boundary conditions, turbulence models, and time step size. Finally, you will learn how to interpret the results and investigate the computed flow field using appropriate flow visualization techniques.

The subject will consist of eight lectures:

January 11th, 10am-11am

January 12th, 10am-11am

January 13th, 10am-11am

January 14th, 10am-11am

January 18th, 10am-11am

January 19th, 10am-11am

January 20th, 10am-11am

January 21th, 10am-11am

The grading of this subject will be based on a project report. In the project, you will choose your own design of an airplane, construct the geometry, generate the mesh, and perform CFD simulations.