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CFD Basics and Best Practices for Student Teams

Improve your student team’s use of CFD by learning best practices in properly setting up, running, and validating results and learning common mistakes made in CFD for your team to avoid.

Venue:
Virtual

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Overview

Improve your student team’s use of CFD by learning best practices in properly setting up, running, and validating results and learning common mistakes made in CFD for your team to avoid.

What you will learn

  • General strategies for preparing your geometry to avoid time-consuming meshing issues
  • How mesh refinements and domain sizing can impact accuracy and run time
  • Turbulence modeling suggestions
  • What initialization and convergence are, and how do we approach it
  • Validation approaches

Who should attend

FSAE and formula student teams, solar car teams, AIAA design build fly teams, SAE aero teams, and BAJA SAE teams

Speaker

Christopher Penny