CR

Computational Rheology

It is expected that students who succeed in this curricular unit will have:

Acquired elementary concepts about numerical methods applied to solving the main governing equations of molten polymer flows.
Developed the ability to conceive, perform, test, and apply numerical calculation algorithms for solving molten polymer flow problems.
Understood and possess the ability to control sources of numerical imprecision to maximize the accuracy of computational calculations.

CP1. Mathematical description of physical phenomena.
CP2. Finite volume method (FVM).
CP3. Numerical solution of the pure diffusion equation (FVM).
CP 4. Computational mechanics software for modeling heat transfer problems.
CP 5. Numerical solution of the convection-diffusion equation (FVM).
CP 6. Unsteady problems.
CP 7. Algorithms for calculating pressure and velocity fields.
CP 8. Computational mechanics software for modeling the flow of polymeric materials.

K. Versteeg and W. Malalasekera, An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (2nd Ed), Prentice Hall, 2007.
Moukalled, F., Mangani, L., Darwish, M., Moukalled, F., Mangani, L., & Darwish, M. (2016). The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Advanced Introduction with OpenFOAM® and Matlab. Springer International Publishing.
Holzmann, T. (2016). Mathematics, numerics, derivations and OpenFOAM®. Loeben, Germany: Holzmann CFD.
Nóbrega, J. M., & Jasak, H. (Eds.). (2019). OpenFOAM®: Selected Papers of the 11th Workshop. Springer.
Papers Published in the OpenFOAM Journal (open access journal), https://journal.openfoam.com