After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• develop a basic understanding for computational fluiddyanmics (CFD) in gneeral and possible applications of CFD methods in chemical engineering (separations engineering in particular);
• define a typical CFD problem (geometry, boundary conditions; expected results and conclusions from the CFD simulation);
• select suitable models and software packages based on the understanding of the scopes and limitations of modern CFD tools.

Typical fluid dynamic problems in thermal process engineering: mixing, gas and liquid distribution, fluid flow in separation devices, reduction of pressure drops, mass transfer between phases, multiphase flow. Description of flow problems; basics of computational fluid dynamics; scopes and limitations of modern CFD packages; critical analysis of CFD results; process engineering case studies.

Working through the slide Sets; software demonstration of typical CFD workflows (geometry pre-processing, flow solver, post-processing); discussion of typical CFD problems; showing scopes and limitations based on practical case studies;

Written exam - as an alternative: practical CFD exercise using commercial or opensource software including a short presentation of the results achieved during a jourfixe;

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