Lt Col Darrell S. Crowe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Graduate Courses Taught
AERO 543 - Advanced Computational Modeling for Aerodynamics
Usage of commercial and government software packages for detailed
modeling and analysis of internal and external aerodynamic flow fields
to include in compressible and compressible viscous solutions with
various turbulence models will be discussed. Topics will include
techniques for mesh generation and adaptation, boundary condition
definitions, flow solver options to include serial versus parallel
processing, and scientific visualization of numerical results.
AERO 551 - Numerical Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics
Application of numerical finite-difference methods to selected model
equations from fluid mechanics and heat transfer: classification of
partial differential equations (PDEs); development and analysis of finite
difference representations of partial derivatives; analysis of consistency,
stability, and accuracy of explicit and implicit finite difference solution
schemes; implementation of selected finite difference schemes in
FORTRAN or MATLAB.
AERO 652 - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Explicit and implicit algorithms for the solution of the compressible
Euler equations in one and two dimensions: Development of finite
difference and finite volume formulations of the governing equations;
Transformation of PDEs to generalized curvilinear coordinates and the
geometric conservation law; Flux and flux-difference splitting schemes;
Total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes; Characteristic Variable
Boundary Conditions; Implementation of selected 2-D solution schemes
in FORTRAN.
AERO 753 - Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
Explicit and implicit algorithms for the solution of the incompressible
and compressible Navier-Stokes equations in two and three dimensions:
turbulence modeling; numerical grid generations; introduction to
unstructured solution techniques; selected topics of current interest in
CFD such as preconditioning for low-speed flows, high-order methods,
convergence acceleration techniques, parallelization; implementation of
selected vicious solution schemes in FORTRAN.