Mae 6720-600 (15929) Computational Fluid Dynamics I

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2025

Course Number

MAE 6720

CRN

15929

Credits

3

Discipline

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Instructor

Xinfeng Gao

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

Includes the solution of flow and heat transfer problems involving steady and transient convective and diffusive transport; superposition and panel methods for inviscid flow, finite-difference methods for elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations, elementary grid generation for odd geometries, primitive variable and vorticity-steam function algorithms for incompressible, multidimensional flows. Extensive use of personal computers/workstations, including interactive graphics.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: MAE 6310 or instructor permission.