Nowadays computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques become more and more integrated into the design of technical biosystems. In addition to this, CFD is also used in the analyses of complex environmental problems. The result of this is that an increasing amount of life science applications of CFD appears in literature with a focus on flow visualization, calculation of heat losses and concentration profiles. In order to have some insight into CFD techniques, in this course we start with traditional physical modeling issues as: balance equations, analogy between heat-mass-momentum, dimension analysis, convection-diffusion with sink/source terms, Navier-Stokes equation and an illustration of numerical schemes. The physical modeling exercises will be implemented on a computer, using the PDEtool of Matlab, and tested on laboratory setups.

The course is also presented as a course for MSc students with code SCO-30806.