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CFD for Structural Designers & Analysts

Do you need a more accurate approach to include fluid loads or thermal boundary conditions for structural analyses than idealized and simplified approaches?
Do you know the important fluid dynamics phenomena in multidisciplinary problems?
What is the role of CFD in strongly coupled fluid-structure interactions?

Get the answers to these questions and more with this industry-leading, code-independent e-learning course.

CFD for Structural Designers & Analysts

This 3-session, live online course will cover a range of topics, all aimed at the structural designer and analyst who needs to get to grips with CFD, including:

  • Principles of fluid dynamics
  • Important flow phenomena
  • Basics of the CFD process
  • Turbulence modelling
  • Fluid-structure interaction.

You can either attend the live sessions or take the course on-demand at your leisure.

NAFEMS e-learning gives you the best of both worlds, giving you real, practical knowledge that you can use day-to-day to improve your analyses.

What will you learn?

  • Important flow concepts
  • Basics of CFD
  • Turbulence modelling and heat transfer
  • Physical and numerical coupling of CFD and structural analyses

What questions will this course answer?

  • What are the important fluid dynamic phenomena that may appear in FSI problems?
  • What are the basic steps in a CFD process?
  • What is physical and numerical coupling in FSI problems?

Who should attend?

  • Structural engineers, designers & analysts aiming to incorporate CFD into their everyday practice
  • Structural engineers not directly using CFD, who need to work with or support CFD analysts

Structural engineers often need to resort to more sophisticated thermal fluid simulations to obtain boundary conditions, loading, performance, etc. for their designs and analyses. This course aims to introduce important concepts to structural engineers for their multidisciplinary problems.

The course will provide an overview of the essential principles of fluid dynamics, important flow phenomena, basics of CFD process, turbulence modelling, heat transfer, and physical and numerical coupling of CFDs and structural analyses in FSI problems through simple examples and case studies.

The course is completely code independent.

  • A full set of notes in PDF format will be available for download. Each session is presented live and is available for review via a streamable recording.

  • Personal passwords are provided to allow you to access e-learning backup material via our special bulletin board. Reading lists, homework submissions, supplementary data are all stored as files on the bulletin board.

  • Interaction via the bulletin board is strongly encouraged to obtain the most from the e-learning class. Typically the board runs for 4 weeks after the last live class sessions, giving you plenty of time to catch up with homework, review and ask questions.

Note: homework is purely voluntary!

Course Process and Details

Students will join the audio portion of the meetings by utilizing the VoIP (i.e. headset connected to the computer via headphone and microphone jacks) or by calling into a standard toll line. If you are interested in additional pricing to call-in using a toll-free line, please send an email to: e-learning @ nafems.org .

Course Program

Note: This is a three-week course. Each session represents one 2.5-hour session each week.

Session 1

  • Need for CFD: loads and boundary conditions
  • Definitions and governing principles of fluid dynamics
  • Introduction to CFD
    • Model simplification
    • Grid generation
    • Differencing
    • Post-processing

Session 2

  • Flow Types:
    • Steady / transient flows
    • Viscous / inviscid flows
    • Laminar / turbulent flows
    • Multiphase flows
  • Important concepts and phenomena
  • Heat transfer

Session 3

  • Understanding turbulence
  • Turbulence modeling
  • Structural and CFD simulation Coupling
    • Weak, Strong, very strong coupling
    • 1-way, 2-way, fully coupled

     

Special Note(s):

Telephony surcharges may apply for attendees who are located outside of North America, South America and Europe. These surcharges are related to individuals who join the audio portion of the web-meeting by calling in to the provided toll/toll-free teleconferencing lines. We have made a VoIP option available so anyone attending the class can join using a headset (headphones) connected to the computer. There is no associated surcharge to utilize the VoIP option, and is actually encouraged to ensure NAFEMS is able to keep the e-Learning course fees as low as possible. Please send an email to the e-Learning coordinator (e-learning @ nafems.org ) to determine if these surcharges may apply to your specific case.

Just as with a live face-to-face training course, each registration only covers one person. If you plan to register a large group (10+), please send an email to e-learning @ nafems.org in advance for group discounts.

For NAFEMS cancellation and transfer policy, click here.

PSE

PSE Competencies addressed by this training course

IDCompetence Statement
CFDkn2State the Navier-Stokes equations.
CFDkn3State the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations.
CFDkn3bState the general energy equation.
CFDco4Explain why turbulence models are required and classify the range of models currently available.
CFDco5Review the terms in the differential form of the governing equations for fluid flow and explain their physical significance.
CFDco8Explain the difference between RANS and LES turbulence modelling approaches.
CFDap1Demonstrate the ability to examine a range of flow phenomenon and employ appropriate fluid modelling approaches.
CFDev2Appraise the use of a range of different CFD codes for flow simulation problems.
FHFMTkn1 State the general energy equation for a finite control volume
FHFMTkn3List the three modes of Heat Transfer
FHFMTkn4State Fourier's law and Newton's law of cooling
FHFMTkn18State a variety of common heat transfer boundary conditions for convective surfaces.
FHFMTkn33Define the terms compressible and incompressible fluid and the range of Mach numbers which apply
FHFMTkn37Define the terms laminar and turbulent and the Reynolds number ranges for which they appear for a flow in a pipe and along a flat plate.
FHFMTkn38State the Bernoulli Equations numbers which apply
FHFMTkn39State the Navier Stokes equations.
FHFMTkn40State the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations
FHFMTkn41Define the term Reynolds stress
FHFMTkn42Define the terms stagnation or total and static pressure and state their relationship to each other
FHFMTsy1Formulate an analysis strategy for the investigation of heat transfer cooling involving either natural convection or forced convection.

Details

Event Type eLearning
Member Price £257.06 | $325.00 | €300.62
Non-member Price £388.36 | $491.00 | €454.17
Tutor: Kamran Fouladi

Dates

Start Date End Date Location


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Online


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Online
CFD for Structural Designers & Analysts

 

Three-Session Online Training Course

2.5/3 hours per session
PDH Credits - 7.5

Attend the live sessions, or view the recordings at your convenience.

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Engineering Board PDH Credits

*It is your individual responsibility to check whether these e-learning courses satisfy the criteria set-out by your state engineering board. NAFEMS does not guarantee that your individual board will accept these courses for PDH credit, but we believe that the courses comply with regulations in most US states (except Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and New York, where providors are required to be pre-approved)


Special Note(s):

Telephony surcharges may apply for attendees who are located outside of North America, South America and Europe. These surcharges are related to individuals who join the audio portion of the web-meeting by calling in to the provided toll/toll-free teleconferencing lines. We have made a VoIP option available so anyone attending the class can join using a headset (headphones) connected to the computer. There is no associated surcharge to utilize the VoIP option, and is actually encouraged to ensure NAFEMS is able to keep the e-Learning course fees as low as possible. Please send an email to the e-Learning coordinator (e-learning @ nafems.org ) to determine if these surcharges may apply to your specific case.

Just as with a live face-to-face training course, each registration only covers one person. If you plan to register a large group (10+), please send an email to e-learning @ nafems.org in advance for group discounts.

For NAFEMS cancellation and transfer policy, click here.