Table of Contents

OpenFOAM

1. Tips for tackling the OpenFOAM learning curve
2.  SimpleFOAM
   • Turbulent Zero-Pressure Gradient Flat Plate
   • The Ahmed Body
3. RhoCentralFoam
   • Mach 1.5 Flow over 23-degree wedge
   • Oblique Shock Alternative Case Set-up
   • Converging-Diverging Nozzle (NASA Test-case)
   • Pressure-driven Nozzle Flow w/ Shock
   • Shock-Tube (TVD Schemes Test)
4. PimpleDyMFoam
   • Oscillating Cylinder in a low-Re cross-flow
5. icoFoam
   • Cavity Flow Simulation
6. buoyantBoussinesqPimpleFoam
   • Rayleigh-Benard convection
7. Meshing
   • High-level overview of meshing for OpenFOAM
   • cfMesh
     • A cfMesh workflow to speed up and improve your meshing
     • The Ahmed Body
   • blockMesh
     • Pressure-driven nozzle flow with shock
   • Mesh motion
     • Oscillating cylinder in laminar cross flow
8. Boundary Conditions
   • timeVaryingFixedUniformValue for oscillating cylinder

Fluids from Scratch

1. Fluid Properties
   • Sutherland’s Law
   • Solving for your own Sutherland coefficients using Python
2. Gas Dynamics
   • 1D Steady Isentropic Flow
   • Oblique Shock Waves
   • Normal Shock Waves
   • Definition of Speed of Sound
   • Derivation of the Euler Equations
3. Fluid Dynamics
   • Couette Flow
   • Hagen-Poiselle Flow

CFD from Scratch

1. Solution of Lid-Driven Cavity Flow using the stream function-vorticity method
2. Newton-Raphson Method
3. Establishing Grid Convergence
4. Numerical Solution of the Compressible Boundary Layer Equations

Tools

1. Compressible aerodynamics calculator – matlab app
2. Pipe flow pressure drop calculator
3. Normal shock calculator
4. Y+ Calculator
5. Air properties calculator
6. Automatic airfoil C-grid generation