Code No: 53206/MT

NR
M.Tech. – II Semester Regular Examinations, September, 2008

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

(Common to Machine Design/ CAD/CAM)

Time: 3hours Max. Marks:60

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks
---

1.a) Explain the basis and history of FEM.

b) Consider a steady compressible flow and write down the continuity
equation. Discretize the governing equations in conservative and
non conservative form and show the consequence of it for 1 – D
flow.

2.a) Explain the method of treating Neumann Boundry conditions.

b) Solve the following equations using Gauss – siedel iterative
method.

4 x1 + 8 x2 + 3 x3 = 15
7 x1 + 5 x2 + x3 = 13
x1 + 3 x2 + 10 x3 = 14

3.a) What are the different types of numerical grids and illustrate them
with figures.
b) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of explicit and implicit
methods applied to the linear parabolic equations.

4. A long cylinder with an initial temperature of Ti is immersed into a

not oil bath at temperature Tb. Assuming that the cylinder surface
immediately reaches the bath temperature, formulate the nodal
equations for temperature with in the cylinder with second order
discretization error.

5. Develop the stream function-vorticity formulation (equations and

boundary conditions) for steady axisymmetric flow in a circular
tube in r-z co-ordinates.

Contd…2.,
Code No: 53206/MT ::2::

6.a) Explain the approximations in the discretization techniques in

finite volume method.
b) Derive the expression for the stability criterion for the finite
difference solution of the one dimensional unsteady heat
conduction using Von Neumann analysis.

7. Obtain the temperature distribution in the slab with transient heat

conduction through it assuming it as a rectangular one in any of
the finite difference applications.

8. Write short notes on:

a) Explicit scheme for parabolic equations.
b) Convergence requirements
c) Finite volume method for three dimensional flows.

*****