MMÜ 427 / 625 / 724 - Applied CFD

Assignment # 1

Due: 14 March 2018, 4 pm

The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with the problem setup, solution steps and
the post-processing by following a tutorial provided by ANSYS-Fluent.

If you prefer to use any other CFD solver please notify me in advance and we can arrange something
else for you

Follow the fluent tutorial for a well-known benchmark problem of ‘flow in a lid-driven cavity’. You
are expected to reproduce all the results presented in the tutorial, run additional cases and submit a
formal project report (please see the submission guidelines)

Please note that in the tutorial, at one point, the ‘new’ results are compared against the ‘old’ ones after
changing two things at a time -under Step 5: Solution, at inner steps 9 and 10. You will do it differently,
change one thing at a time, i.e., first perform inner step 9, plot and compare/check your results, and then
perform inner step 10, plot and compare/check your results. In this way, you will understand which step
actually helped you to get more accurate results.

Required files and the tutorial itself are available at the following address in a compressed form:
http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~ozgur.ekici/courses/mmu427-625-724/assignment-1.zip This tutorial
belongs to an older version of Fluent but that shouldn’t be a problem. I am sure you will easily figure
out the necessary tiny modifications you need to perform.
Your reports should include the following to demonstrate your understanding:
i. the problem statement with your own words
ii. brief explanation of all performed steps with your own words
iii. all the figures related to the problem statement and results (figures of your results not the
figures from the tutorial) with short discussions
iv. DO NOT present the figures for the problem set-up, such as materials window, boundary
conditions window etc.
v. run two additional cases (for a different mesh, different geometry, different physics,
different solution method etc.), present important results, and discuss them shortly

vi. MMU 624 / 725 students only: Comparison of some of your results with the published
studies. I expect you to read at least one paper and use its findings in your comparisons
and discussions. A sample reference list is given below.

Sample Reference Papers:

- Ghia, U., Ghia, K.N., Shin, C.T., High-Re Solutions for Incompressible Flow Using the Navier-
Stokes Equations and a Multigrid Method, Journal of Computational Physics 48, 387-411,
1982
- Ertürk, E., Corke, T.C., Gökçöl, C., Numerical solutions of 2‐D steady incompressible driven
cavity flow at high Reynolds numbers, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
48, 747-774, 2005
- Botella, O., and R. Peyret., Benchmark spectral results on the lid-driven cavity flow,
Computers & Fluids 27, 421-433, 1998
May be there is no need to remind but, internet search for useful sources of any kind, collaboration and
discussion with fellow students are allowed and encouraged; however, each student must turn in her/his
work (format, sentences, figures, comments etc.) which reflects her/his own understanding of the
material.
There will be random ‘originality checks’ and plagiarism will not be tolerated.

Grading policy:
This assignment is worth 7% of your final grade (excluding the effect of the project exam)

• Submissions on (or before) Mar. 14th @ 4pm will be evaluated out of 100
• Submissions after Mar. 14th @ 4pm lose 10pts a day from the earned grade

Submission guidelines:
• Reports should be typed the following two items should be submitted before the deadline
o text searchable pdf version of your report via e-mail
o hardcopy of your report

• Reports should include the following sections (not necessarily the exact same names, similar
sections / titles should be fine)
o a title page
o table of contents
o list of tables / figures
o introduction
o problem definition / statement
o discussion of the results
o conclusion

• Problem definition / statement should include an appropriate sketch, problem physics,

assumptions, BCs, initial conditions etc. as required to explain the necessary details of the
problem to the reader.

• As a general guideline, when you are presenting your results, DO NOT include every possible
result, but the results that you think are important to understand and demonstrate the physics of
the problem.