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.
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
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: MAE 6310 or instructor permission.