The main purpose of this research is to develop a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software
to be used as an educational tool in teaching introductory level fluid mechanics and CFD
courses. The software developed for this purpose is called Virtual Flow Lab. It has a graphical
user interface (GUI) that enables basic pre-processing, solver parameter and boundary
condition setting and post-processing steps of a typical CFD simulation. The pressure-based
solver is capable of solving incompressible, laminar, steady or time-dependent problems on
two-dimensional Cartesian grids using the SIMPLE algorithm and its variants. Blocked-cell
technique is implemented to extend the types of the problems that can be studied on a Cartesian
grid. A parametric study is conducted using a number of benchmark problems in order to
test the accuracy and efficiency of the solver and successful results are achieved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608562/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 August 2004 |
| Creators | Nakiboglu, Gunes |
| Contributors | Sert, Cuneyt |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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