American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)

Introduction to Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics

March 26, 2023
University of Maryland, MD, USA (from 10 AM to 4 PM)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has emerged as an essential component of the design and analysis process for a wide range of engineering disciplines. CFD tools enable an engineer to analyse and understand the impact of the underlying physics, mathematics, and numerical concepts on an engineering system. This introductory course is intended to provide a researcher or a practicing engineer with the basic essentials to deal with problems of engineering design that involve fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, turbulence, combustion or other flow processes. It also provides an overview of the uses, abuses, promises and limitations of CFD so as to enable a design engineer to make effective use of CFD as an engineering tool. This introductory course covers a range of topics from fundamental aspects of CFD to the state-of-the-art technologies, such as application of the latest Machine learning techniques to CFD.

KEY BENEFITS TO PARTICIPANTS

Help participants develop an intuitive understanding of key concepts of CFD
Provide an insight into the relevance of CFD to real-world industrial problems
Discuss the uncertainties, promises and pitfalls of CFD
Help participants correctly interpret results of their flow simulations.
Discuss how Machine Learning can be integrated with CFD to improve performance and accuracy

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Graduate students and research scholars involved with development and application of CFD
Design engineers working with CFD

Instructor(s)

AKSHAI RUNCHAL

Affiliation: President and Founding Partner, ACRi

Bio:

Dr. Akshai K. Runchal has over 50 years of experience in CFD and simulation of flow, heat and mass transport processes in engineering and environmental sciences, He obtained his Ph.D. in 1969 from Imperial College (London) under the guidance of Prof. D, B. Spalding. He was a key member of the 3-person team led by Spalding that invented the Finite Volume Method (FVM) of Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in mid 1960’s. He started his professional career as a faculty at IIT Kanpur in 1969 and has also taught as regular or adjunct faculty at Imperial College (London), University of California (Los Angeles), Cal Tech (Pasadena), and Cal State (Northridge). In 1979, Dr. Runchal established the ACRi group of companies (www.acricfd.com) that has offices in the USA, France and India.

For the past 50 years, Dr Runchal, has consulted extensively on projects related to flow, heat and mass transfer, combustion, environmental impact, management of air, surface and ground water resources, safe disposal of hazardous and nuclear waste, and, policy and decision analysis. Dr. Runchal is a co-author of the first book ever published on CFD. He is the author or co-author of 12 books and over 200 technical publications. He is the principal author of the ANSWER®, PORFLOW®, TIDAL®, and RADM™ CFD Soft-ware Tools that are widely employed by commercial, academic, and R&D organizations. (www.acricfd.com)

Dr. Runchal has received professional honours and awards and has delivered keynote and invited talks at more than 100 international conferences and seminars. In 2011, Dr. Runchal founded a non-profit CFD Virtual Reality Institute (www.CFDVRi.org) to further the cause of CFD education, training, and R&D. He divides his time between Los Angeles and McLeod Ganj and is actively engaged in promoting education, training, and R&D in CFD and related disciplines

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