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Sports and Building Aerodynamics
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Thisis a six-week course with the following contents:
Week1: Basicaspects of fluid flow
- Fluid properties - part 1 (velocity, pressure, temperature)
- Fluid properties - part 2 (density)
- Fluid properties - part 3 (viscosity)
- Flow properties - part 1
- Flow properties - part 2
- Fluid statics, kinematics, dynamics
- Boundary layers - part 1
- Boundary layers - part 2
- Boundary layers - part 3
- The atmospheric boundary layer
Week2: Wind-tunnel testing
- Why wind-tunnel testing?
- Wind-tunnel types and applications
- The atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel
- Wind-tunnel components
- Measurements and flow visualization
- Similarity and flow quality
- Best practice guidelines
Week3: Computational Fluid Dynamics
- ComputationalFluid Dynamics: what, why and how?
- Approximateforms of the Navier-Stokesequations
- Turbulencemodeling
- Someaspects of discretization
- Near-wallmodeling
- Errorsand uncertainty, verification and validation
- Bestpractice guidelines
- ComputationalWindEngineering – Part 1
- ComputationalWind Engineering – Part 2
Week4: Building aerodynamics
- Windflow around buildings – part 1
- Windflow around buildings – part 2
- Pedestrian-levelwind conditions around buildings – part 1
- Pedestrian-levelwind conditions around buildings – part 2
- Pedestrian-levelwind conditions around buildings – part 3
- Naturalventilation of buildings
- Wind-drivenrain on building facades – part 1
- Wind-drivenrain on building facades – part 2
- Windenergy in the built environment – part 1
- Windenergy in the built environment – part 2
Week5: 100 m sprint aerodynamics
- Why study sprint aerodynamics?
- Mathematical-physical model of running
- Wind effects
- Altitude effects
- Stadium aerodynamics and sprint records
- Interview with a professional athletics coach
Week6: Cycling aerodynamics
- Whystudy cycling aerodynamics?
- Wind-tunneltesting for a single cyclist – Part 1
- Wind-tunneltesting for a single cyclist – Part 2
- CFDsimulations for a single cyclist
- Aerodynamicsof two drafting cyclists
- Aerodynamicsof drafting cyclist groups
- Aerodynamics of car-cyclist combinations
- Interview with professional cycling coaches from teams Belkin and RaboLiv
Prerequisite
Instructors
Bert Blocken
Professor dr.ir.
Department of the Built Environment
Editor
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