Make sure you know your undergraduate Numerical Analysis courses. Bruch up on some coding, and you are set.
Regards.
I wouldn't recommend ANSYS FLUENT to a graduate student who is starting their degree. However, a graduate student in the area of fluid mechanic might use ANSYS for their research studies, class projects, etc. down the road.
Depending on the focus of your research, you might consider other numerical software like Open Foam.
As a starting point, I would recommend "Fundamentals of fluid mechanics by Munson, Young, Okiishi and Huebsch".
there are so many other fluid dynamics books you may use.
Also, you can take advantage of Internet and online tutorials, especially those provided by online educational organizations like Khan Academy. Be careful which you would pick and keep in mind these online resources alone might not be sufficient, but they rather complement what you learn from books and your instructor notes.
What sort of phenomena attracted you to fluid dynamics to begin with. Chaos? Moving reactions? Diffusion? Fractality? Geometrical aspects? Conjugate problems?
I would suggest to refer to Fluid Mechanics By Frank White and Mechanics of fluids By Shames
In order to start in fluid dynamics, one has to be familiar with fluid mechanics. As fluid can be liquid or gas, in general most of the part will be liquid. Definitions of properties of fluid should be known, notations and units are important to remember and one has to be familiar with principles. After knowing this, one can easily understand the applications of fluid mechanics that is fluid dynamics.
Dear Haled (is it right transcription of your first name خالد أبوزيد English?)
I am glad to let you know that the new generation of fluid mechanics, that is Differential Fluid Mechanics (DFM), based on definition on mathematics as axiomatic science with postulated control of accuracy, and physics as empirical science used analogues of mathematical quantities with criteria of their observability that is with experimental control of accuracy, is under construction. The foundations of DFM are thermodynamics and Laws of conservation the basic fluid and its motion parameters that are for density, constituents, total energy including internal energy and momentum with physically based boundary and initial conditions. The complex general system is adopted for any practical situation follow basic mathematical principles.
Important advantage of the DFM is ability to search general (complete) solution taking into account condition of compatibility, which can be matched directly with adequate experimental data.
Approach is universal and works for construction analytical, numerical and experimental studies.
The development of DFM is at early beginning but demonstrate the fast progress in posing and solution of the fluid mechanics problems.
Some papers are available in RG.
Yuli
Yuli D Chashechkin,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics
Hi, I don't know your goal, if it was just that you want to obtain a degree, I think some comercial software is good, but if you hope to pursuit a high degree, you should write you own codes by C or C++, or Python.
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If you want to learn to write your own code, I offer several sites to get you started,
- http://cav2012.sg/cdohl/CFD_course/
- https://lorenabarba.com/blog/cfd-python-12-steps-to-navier-stokes/
- https://www.openfoam.com/
- https://www.resolvedanalytics.com/theflux/comparing-cfd-software
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