Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur 621 212.

AUC R2008
Gurunath K AE 2402 Computational Fluid Dynamics | 1
AE 2402 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Question Bank
2 Marks

Unit I
1. Distinguish between conservation and non-conservation forms of fluid flow.
2. Write down the conservative form of the continuity equation and explain the terms
involved.
3. Write down an expression for substantial derivative in Cartesian coordinates.
4. What are the assumptions made in panel methods?
5. List out advantages of panel method.
6. What are limitations of panel methods?

Unit II
7. Transform the steady, incompressible continuity equation from x, y physical plane to
the , computational plane.
8. Define well-posed problems.
9. What are the methods available for grid generation?
10. Differentiate between structured and unstructured grids.
11. Explain the forms of the boundary conditions.
12. Name the important errors that commonly occur in numerical solution.

Unit III
13. Define the grid point.
14. What is Lax method?
15. Define Courant number.
16. Define stability in numerical solution of fluid flow governing equations.
17. Compare the merits and demerits of implicit and explicit methods.
18. Discuss about the choice of explicit and implicit operators.

Unit IV
19. Define the finite element method.
20. Explain the point collocation method.
21. What is Lax-Wendroff time-stepping?
22. What are the Commercial Software for CFD?
23. What is the importance of CFL condition?
24. Explain about the weighted residual formulation.

Unit V
25. Define the nodes.
26. Define the staggered grid approach.
27. What is mean by accuracy in FVM?
28. Define the cell-vertex formulation.
29. Explain the distribution step.
30. Distinguish the cell-centred method and cell-vertex method.
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur 621 212. AUC R2008
Gurunath K AE 2402 Computational Fluid Dynamics | 2
16 Marks

Unit I
1. Derive the Conservation form of Continuity equation.
2. Derive the Conservation form of Energy Equation.
3. Derive the Navier-Stokes momentum equation in Conservation form.
4. Discuss the source panel method for non-lifting flow over an arbitrary two dimensional
body.
5. Discuss how the vortex panel method is used in finding out the circulation and lift with
the help of Kutta condition?
6. Derive the elementary finite difference quotients.
7. Explain Lax Wedroff explicit finite difference method.
8. Explain MacCormacks explicit finite difference method.

Unit II
9. Derive the general transformation of the equations.
10. Explain the coordinate stretching of grid transformation.
11. Explain the boundary fitted coordinate system.
12. Discuss about adaptive grids and its formation.
13. Discuss the importance of Delaunay triangulation.

Unit III
14. Derive the Prandtls boundary layer equations.
15. Explain the hierarchy of the boundary layer equations.
16. Derive the equations for the discretization of the boundary layer equations.
17. Explain the concept of numerical dissipation with the help of upwind discretization.
18. Explain the generalized Crank-Nicholson scheme.
19. Discuss the stability properties of explicit and implicit methods.

Unit IV
20. Explain the strong formulations of a boundary value problem.
21. Explain the weak formulations of a boundary value problem.
22. Discuss about weighted residuals and Galerkin formulations.

Unit V
23. Discuss the Lax-Wendroff time stepping for cell-centred formulation.
24. Discuss the Runge-Kutta time stepping for cell-centred formulation.
25. Explain the flux vector splitting in upwind schemes.
26. Discuss the multi-stage time stepping for cell-vertex formulation.
27. Explain the significance of Pressure correction solvers in staggered grid approach.
28. Discuss the SIMPLE algorithm used for the pressure correction methods.