CIVL42002 15 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 4 David Apsley Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 <p>Part 1: The Finite-Volume Method - the dominant approach to fluid-flow simulation in general-purpose CFD codes. This section includes practical civil-engineering-type exercises with the major commercial code StarCCM+.</p><p>Part 2: Shallow-Water Flows - specialist CFD for civil engineering. Widely used in predicting river, estuarine and coastal flows.</p> <p>Part 1: The Finite-Volume Method - the dominant approach to fluid-flow simulation in general-purpose CFD codes. This section includes practical civil-engineering-type exercises with the major commercial code StarCCM+.</p><p>Part 2: Shallow-Water Flows - specialist CFD for civil engineering. Widely used in predicting river, estuarine and coastal flows.</p> <ul> <li>To introduce students to the numerical simulation of incompressible fluid flow.</li> <li>For students to understand and be able to choose and apply appropriate discretisation techniques for partial differential equations, particularly those describing fluid flow.</li> <li>To acquaint students with major in-house and commercial CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software and how to apply such software to typical civil-engineering problems, such as wind-loading, ventilation, pollution dispersion, coastal and estuarine flows.</li></ul> <p>Part 1: The Finite-Volume Method (Dr Apsley)<br /> (1) Governing equations: conservative and non-conservative forms; some exact solutions; common approximations.<br /> (2) Finite-volume techniques: discretisation of standard advection-diffusion problem; time-marching; pressure-correction methods; computer methods for solving matrix equations.<br /> (3) Turbulence and its modelling: Reynolds averaging and Reynolds stresses; basic theory and log law; &ldquo;industry-type&rdquo; turbulence models.<br /> (4) 3D geometric techniques (areas, volumes, averages) and presentation of 3D data.<br /> (5) Use of in-house research code STREAM (1 exercise) and commercial code StarCCM+ (2 exercises) for industry-type problems (e.g. wind loading).</p><p>Part 2: Shallow-Water Flows (Dr Rogers)<br /> (6) Shallow-water (depth-averaged) approximation and equations; specialist solution techniques.<br /> (7) In-house software example (1 exercise).</p> 1 Written exam 50% 3 Report 50% <p>Individual feedback will be posted online after marking, with common problems summarised in class.</p><p>Exam - class summary in Blackboard</p> CIVL20041 Hydraulics 2 Pre-Requisite Compulsory CIVL10101 Hydraulics 1 Pre-Requisite Compulsory CIVL34001 Hydraulics 3 Pre-Requisite Compulsory MEng (Hons) Civil & Struct Eng MEng (Hons) Civil & Struct Eng Fourth Year Optional MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering MEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Fourth Year Optional MEng (Hons) Civil Eng (Ent) MEng (Hons) Civil Eng (Ent) Fourth Year Optional MEng (Hons) Civil Eng w Ind Ex MEng (Hons) Civil Eng w Ind Ex Fourth Year Optional N eAssessment 32 Lectures 34 Tutorials 6 0 78