NAFEMS, the only independent not-for-profit organisation 
with the aim of promoting the effective and reliable use of 
CFD, addresses this requirement by providing this two day 
example-driven, practical course. The course offers 
excellent guidance on how to judge which approximations are 
acceptable and appropriate for solving a wide range of 
practical problems. Of equal importance is the manner in 
which the results are interpreted. Advice is provided which 
allows the correct decisions to be taken, based on results 
which are known to be reliable. Interaction is encouraged 
throughout the course, with the planning and design of a 
complete CFD project and examples of simple hand 
calculations, mesh designs and solution designs being set 
for the class to complete. The course is completely code 
independent. 

Who Should Attend? 

This course is aimed at practising engineers who wish to 
learn more about how to apply CFD techniques to their 
particular problems in the most effective manner. The 
material that is presented is independent of any particular 
software package, making it ideally suited to current and 
potential users of all commercial CFD software systems. 
This course is a must for all engineers aiming to use CFD 
as a reliable predictive tool for flow analysis. 

The course is open to both members and non-members of 
NAFEMS. 

Course Programme

· Introduction / Motivation
· Which equations are solved in a CFD software package?
· Application of Finite Volume Methods to solve the 
equations
· How to setup a mesh for CFD simulations
· Practical CFD: From the real world to the simulation model
  -  What to do before starting a simulation
  -  Assumptions and simplifications in CFD
  -  Boundary conditions
  -  Grid generation
  -  Problems / pitfalls in running CFD simulations
· Quality of CFD simulations
  - How to check the results / possibilities checking the 
results
  - Verifying and validating the CFD results
· Future trends in CFD (fluid structure interaction, 
optimization, ...)
· Examples / workshop / discussions