[JuanRincon]

Hi,

sorry if this is not the space for this thread but I couldn't find any other.

so as the title suggest I would like to follow to know a bit more about the path for fluid dynamics my idea is to get a decent knowledge and become proficient at it.

so far I have studied:
Calculus
Multivariable calculus
Differential equations
PDE (basics)
Vector calculus (basics)
linear algebra
Fluid mechanics
thermodynamics
heat transfer
coding

I have also done some stuff with commercial codes but I would like to get more into the core of everything. now I would like some recommendation into going deep into turbulent flows (I heard pope is good and I did not like tennekes & lumley) or going into CFD, as I believe I would be able to visualize some turbulent flows with CFD it would make it easier but I feel that I need to know a bit of turbulence to get into CFD.

any suggestions?

thanks

[slaine]

Hi JuanRincon.

You have a strong basis for getting into CFD. How have you studied those topics? Have you studied any of them at a degree level or through self study?

You can get a good basic introduction to the topic of CFD here. If you want to get more into numerics you could also start here.

[JuanRincon]

Hi, i have a bachelors in mechanical engineering, but i have expanded some of the topics by myself ej: fluid mechanics, math and coding.

[slaine]

Have you tried looking at the courses available from The Open University as well? This one just came up when I searched.

[JuanRincon]

Hi,

thanks for the help, i have looked a lot into CFD courses and there is actually one form NASA http://="https://www.nas.nasa.gov/pu...introcfd.html", and i also have found resources to learn turbulence.

what is bothering me is what should I read/learn first in other to get the best out of everything. Here is a bit of my logic:

If i learn CFD first I would just see nice colors but I could visualize some of the turbulence phenomena later.
Now, if I learn turbulence first it would be super abstract as I would have to visualize math in my head and probably I would not understand it but I would actually know what the CFD is telling me later.

thanks a lot

[JuanRincon]

Hi,

an update on the topic.
I have started reading turbulence modelling for CFD by Wilcox, as I read it will introduce turbulence and CFD at the same time (baby steps), which is nice, after that my the plan is to expand in the turbulence domain while keeping CFD as a visualization tool.

I hope this helps someone, some day