Welcome to Open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics – 1. Fundamentals (2021)

This course is the first part of the 5 day course on OpenFOAM and covers fundamental aspects. The second part of the course can be found here: https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/course/view.php?id=1658.

More detailed information about the course can be found at cfd.aau.dk



Description: Interaction between fluid and a human-made structure or device is design critical in a wide range of engineering disciplines. When designing bridges, cars, wind turbines and when optimising electronics cooling, ship hulls etc. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software is becoming an ever more important design tool. CFD enables faster design loop iteration by detailed flow analysis in or around a proposed design in a virtual environment. 

This course is an introduction to CFD using OpenFOAM which is the most widely used open source toolkit for CFD. The fact that OpenFOAM is open source makes it extremely versatile allowing the user to modify any aspect of the code to his/her needs. While large scale simulations with commercial CFD software can be extremely expensive due to licence fees, OpenFOAM can be run on massively parallel HPC’s at no additional cost. 


Organizer: Assistant Professor Jakob Hærvig - jah@et.aau.dk
Associate Professor Johan Rønby- 
roenby@math.aau.dk


Lecturers: Assistant Professor Jakob Hærvig - jah@et.aau.dk
Associate Professor Johan Rønby- 
roenby@math.aau.dk

Read more about the course here: https://www.et.aau.dk/events/


ECTS: 2.0

Time: 21-22 June 2021 

Place: Frederikskaj 10A

Zip code: 2450

City: Copenhagen

Number of seats: 20

Deadline: 31 May 2021

Evaluation: Course will be evaluated with a mini project (pass/fail), which has to be handed on 14 days after the course. Expected workload for the mini project is 3 full days.

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.