Information about final exam

The oral exam starts with a 15 minutes presentation of your own project. You decide how and what to present, but remember that the external examiner is not familiar with the project beforehand. He has not seen your project description.

After the presentation there will be approximately 15 minutes for questions from the syllabus. The most important topics are then

• The finite volume method (FV)
  • For diffusion
  • For convection
• FV discretisation schemes like central, upwind and QUICK. You need to be able to explain
  • the most important properties of FV discretisation schemes
  • what TVD schemes are and how they work
  • what the Peclet number represents and why it is important
• How FV is used on an unstructured grid. Chapter 11.7-9 in the book.
• The discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations in space and time, where FV takes care of space and SIMPLE, PISO or fractional step handles the time-stepping and pressure-velocity coupling. You should be able to explain in detail how the SIMPLE/PISO/fractional step solvers work.
• The difference between coupled and segregated Navier-Stokes solvers. Advantages and disadvantages.

The date for the final exam is tentatively 11 June.