CFD for Aerospace Applications

However, there are a wide range of CFD methods which can be employed for a given aerodynamic problem depending upon the time scales of the project and the required accuracy. This often leads to confusion when choosing a solution method for a given problem and in many cases, the wrong choice is made leading to inaccurate solutions.

This course gives an overview of external flow problems in aeronautical and aerospace applications. It then details the different CFD methods which can be employed for subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flow regimes. This ranges from methods for design which can compute flow properties in a matter of seconds on a desktop machine, through to those methods which require supercomputing facilities. The course finishes with a series of case studies demonstrating appropriate use of CFD methods in aerospace design.