30420 - Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0949)

Learning outcomes

The student acquires the necessary tools to tackle and solve basic problems related to transport phenomena (mass, energy and species) and thermodynamics commonly encountered in the field of engineering with the help of numerical and experimental methods.

Course contents

Part I: Numerical methods. Solving thermofluidynamics problems using the FEM method implemented in MATLAB (simple cases) and COMSOL Multiphysics (complex cases)

Part II: Experimental methods. Introduction to Particle image velocimetry (PIV) for characterization of fluid flows. Introduction to IR camera for thermography.

Readings/Bibliography

Material provided by the lecturer.

COMSOL multiphysics reference manual.

Teaching methods

Theoretical lessons. Practical session on the computer using the software MATLAB and COMSOL. Practical session in the laboratory. 

Assessment methods

Technical report at the end of the course.

Teaching tools

Informatic laboratory for the computational sessions. Laboratory CICLoPE for the practical sessions.  

Office hours

See the website of Massimiliano Rossi