What is Computational Fluid Dynamics – CFD? What is the Importance of CFD?
Over the last few years we have heard talking about computational fluid dynamics (CFD) when it comes for fluid flow study. So, what’s CFD? CFD is a set of computational simulation techniques, used to obtain and interpret computational solutions for the conservation equations for physical quantities of interest in a flow, which are: – Mass conservation; – Momentum and energy conservation. These simulation techniques predict physical and/or chemical phenomena occurring in flows. They will simulate the physical phenomena in an approximate way to the differential equations. Those differences refer to errors or residuals. To solve problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics – CFD, it’s necessary to specify the problem, i.e. its geometry, flow conditions and the requirements for simulation (precision level, require time, solution of the interest parameters). And what’s the CFD importance? In CFD it’s possible to model and evaluate the fluid flow performance in our study model. The application o
