Guia docente 2025_26 Escuela de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio

Máster Universitario en Enxeñería Aeronáutica

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. REVISION OF NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS	1.1. Principles of conservation of mass, linear momentum and energy. 1.2. Euler Equations. 1.3. Initial and boundary conditions 1.4. Dimensionless formulation, dimensionless parameters and physical similarity. Application to the Rayleigh problem.
2. BOUNDARY LAYERS	2.1 Introduction. Equations of the boundary layer. Introduction to perturbations. Thicknesses and general considerations. Laminar boundary layers 2.2. Integral equation of Karman. 2.3. Blausius Solution. Effects of suction/blown. 2.4. Solutions of Falkner-Skan. 2.5. Thermal boundary layer 2.6. Effects of compressibility. Boundary layers at very high speed
3. NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS FOR REACTIVE MIXTURES	3.1 Multicomponents mixtures: molar Fraction. Mass fraction. Equation of state. Speed of diffusion. 3.2 Conservation Equation for the chemical species. Molecular transport in multicomponents mixtures. Navier-Stokes Equations for reactive flows 3.3 Introduction to the chemistry of combustion. Global and elementary reactions. Dependency of the constants of reaction with the temperature. Hypothesis of steady state. Hypothesis partial equilibrium 3.4 Thermokinetics. Stoichiometry and dosage. Adiabatic flame temperature. Chemical balance. 3.5 Length and time scales. Relevant dimensionless numbers 3.6 Applications. Numerical simulation of combustion processes
4. TURBULENCE	4.1 Review of properties of turbulence. Free turbulence. Turbulent dynamic boundary layer. Turbulent thermal boundary layer 4.2 RANS and LES models.
5. ADVANCED NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES IN FLUID DYNAMICS	5.1 Finite Volume Methods (FVM) 5.2 Implementation of the FVM 5.3 Pressure based methods. Density based methods 5.4 Examples of discretisation 5.5 Residuals and their meaning. 5.6 Numerical Simulation of different compressible and incompresible flows
6. INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS IN FLUIDS	6.1. Characterisation of Turbulent Flow 6.2. Measurement of Temperature and Heat flow 6.3 Measure of Pressure 6.4 Measure of forces 6.5 Hot-wire anemometer. 6.6 Laser anemometer 6.7 Other measurement and visualisation techniques for fluids