Short Courses
Short Course CFD for Industry 
CFD for Industry is a short course that aims at training industry professionals in the proper use of Computational Fluid Dynamics software. Today's CFD packages are increasingly powerful and robust, not to mention user-friendly, but their ability to deliver a converged result with the default settings may be misleading. The nonlinear nature of fluid mechanics means that relatively small mistakes in the simulation setup may result in fundamentally wrong flow fields leading to faulty design.
This short course focuses on the methodical process of setting up correctly your CFD simulation and of evaluating the quality of your solution, regardless of the software package used. Qualitative and quantitative criteria for selecting the best grid, domain size, convergence threshold, and other parameters will be taught and demonstrated during practice sessions.
The short course covers a review of fundamentals, solution procedure, convergence analysis, mesh generation, physical modeling, verification and validation, and best practices. Each session will be complemented by a hands-on practice with OpenFOAM, exemplifying concepts learned.
Register by e-mail at carlos.lange@ualberta.ca. Registration details and detailed schedule can be found in the course brochure.
Graduate Courses
Applied CFD (MECE 539)
(poster) A unique course designed for advanced users of mature CFD packages (commercial and non-commercial). Aimed at top undergraduate students planning to specialize in Thermofluids and Aerospace fields, and graduate students whose research does not involve model development, this course assumes access to a fully developed CFD code. This allows the course to focus on the knowledge required to properly setup, solve and analyze a CFD simulation. Theory is put to practise with realistic tutorials and assignments.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (MECE 639)
(poster) An advanced course on numerical methods that teaches all the aspects involved in developing CFD models and programs. In addition to specialized techniques for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, the course covers advanced numerical techniques and coding for high-performance, including parallelism, which can be applied to other fields of scientific modelling. The course is aimed at graduate students that are developing or improving numerical simulation codes, not strictly limited to CFD.
Numerical Simulation of Complex Flows (MECE 738)
(poster) Students interested in CFD will find advanced topics on numerical simulation of complex flows in this course. In particular, they will learn how to simulate two important classes of fluid flows, namely non-Newtonian flows and multiphase flows. (Not currently offered.)
High Performance Computing for Turbulent Flows in Complex Geometries (MECE 739)
(poster) Advanced CFD: Turbulence Modelling, Parallel Programming and Mesh Generation (Not currently offered.)
Undergraduate Courses
Numerical Methods for Mechanical Engineers (MECE 390)
Fundamental course about Introduction to Numerical Methods. Understand basic numerical methods and their approximate nature (errors, convergence, etc), their weaknesses, and strengths. Practise programming and debugging using MATLAB and applying the numerical techniques to solve engineering problems.
