University of Warwick, School of Engineering, Coventry, UK

International Space University - MSS

46 students from 26 countries

For the curriculum please check the ISU web homepage

Placement at NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory (research project in concurrent design)
    "Assessment of Commercial Off the Shelf Computational Fluid Dynamics (COTS-CFD)
    Tools to Enhance the Concurrent Design Environment at NASA-JPL"
 

Extracts from my PhD reearch at Warwick University

• Introduction
• The upper airway
• Obstructive Sleep Apnoea / Hypopnoea (OSAH)
• Blood flow in arteries
• Numerical Scheme - CFD/FEM
• FEM Navier-Stokes equations (an introduction) 
• Numerical Stability (an introduction) 
• Sample 2D Benchmark cases (Stokes and Navier-Stokes problems)
• Lid driven cavity flow - triangular domain (Re=1, 100, 500, 1500)
• Lid driven cavity flow - rectangular domain (Re=1, 400, 1000, 3200)
• Poiseuille flow (Re=1)
• Fence in a duct [(#1),(#2)]
• Backward facing step [(Configuration 1), (Configuration 2)]
• Forward facing step [(#1), (#2)]
• Additional geometries
• Horizontal split inlet
• Horizontal split inlet with blocked lower channel inlet
• 2D Upper airway representation (with rigid walls)
• with two inlets
• with blocked lower inlet
• Flexible Plates
• Two fixed ends
• Hinged-hinged end conditions (6 Eigenmodes, Eigenmode1, Eigenmode2, Eigenmode3)
• Clamped-clamped end conditions (6 Eigenmodes, Eigenmode1, Eigenmode2, Eigenmode3)
• Cantilevered plate
• Clamped-free end conditions (6 Eigenmodes, Eigenmode1, Eigenmode2, Eigenmode3)
• Coupled code - fluid-structure interaction (Mode 2 initial displacement)
• Flutter
• Divergence
• Vorticity

• Pressure Drop Toolbox V.0.9 for Matlab (link to Matlab's user contributed site)

Other Links

• MiKTeX Project Page
• Matlab
• Tecplot
• Compaq Fortran
• CFD-Online