Best practice guidelines

From CFD-Wiki

These best practice guidelines are intended to be a help practising CFD engineers. By sharing our experience about how to best perform a CFD analysis for a particular problem we can help each other and learn from each others mistakes.

Application area specific guides

Aerospace CFD

Automotive CFD

Turbomachinery CFD

Electronics cooling CFD

Topic specific guides

Heat Transfer

External Links

• CFD Online best practice guidelines links
• ERCOFTAC best practice guidelines (costs money)
• MARNET CFD best practice guidelines for marine applications of CFD
• NAFEMS CFD analysis - guidance for good practice
• NAFEMS general guidelines for good convergence in CFD
• QNET-CFD newsletter #8 with best practice advices

• External aerodynamics
• Combustion and heat transfer
• Chemical and process, thermal hydraulics and nuclear safety
• Civil construction and HVAC
• Environmental flows
• Turbomachinery internal flows

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