Teaching Fluids Mechanics Simulation for Low-tech Cooling

Overview

With the increased intensity and frequency of heat waves across the globe, providing low-tech alternatives to air conditioning devices for built environment comfort is of growing interest. Windcatchers are three-thousand-year-old systems that can contribute to passive ventilation and cooling of buildings while consuming reduced or no energy. They are an architectural feature mounted on the roof of a building which looks like a tower and utilizes the air movement from the outside. Join this webinar to learn how to engage your students on this topic, motivating them to contribute to SDG #11. We will use Ansys Fluent simulations to understand the effectiveness of windcatchers and how to run and simulate similar cases with different configurations.  

Teaching sustainable development concepts within engineering courses themed webinar series  

This series of teaching webinars supports the urge to act and prepare students to contribute to the UN’s sustainable development goals, which are growing in academia. Incorporating the skills to design products or solve complex problems, which consider such frameworks, is not an easy task for traditionally technical knowledge and skills-focused engineering courses. In this webinar series, we will address a selection of sustainable development concepts relevant to engineering practices and look to illustrate their industrial application with Ansys simulation tools. The benefit of visualizing and understanding both – theoretical fundamentals and their applications - will be a common thread in all the sessions. 

Each webinar is independent in terms of content, but we invite you to register for all our sustainability-themed teaching webinars – the series includes: 

• Critical raw materials in design for responsible production and consumption  
• Improving electric motors and generators' performance for electrification  
• Wind turbine design optimization for affordable and clean energy 
• Fluid mechanics simulation for low-tech cooling

What you will learn

• How to engage students on the importance of low-tech solutions in large scale deployments that support sustainable development goals
• What physical phenomenon in fluids mechanics is used and how to simulate it in CFD
• What teaching resources Ansys provides to connect thermo-fluid mechanics fundamentals to airflow in low energy-consuming ventilation and cooling-system applications

Who should attend

Educators teaching in mechanical, fluids, or energy systems undergraduate engineering degrees. Additionally, engineers and students interested in these topics will find value. 

Speaker

Gautham Varma