Application for Simulation of the Impact of Matter Moving Past Solid Objects

<p>Graduation work. 81 pages, 10 pictures, 5 attachments, 26 sources</p><p>This paper discusses the development of an application that simulates the impact of gases or liquids moving past solid objects. Simulation is perfomed by numerical methods of computational fluid dynamics. This methods are basen on the Nevier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid. Firstly, an overview of the existing numerical methods for solving the Navier-Stokes equations and the brief competitors overview are provided. Secondly, the finite difference method, which have been selected for this application, is discussed in detail. The result of the work is a cross-platform application that simulates the movement of a gas or liquid flow around a solid object. Application is runnable even on low-end computers, and users are not required to have deep knowledge in fluid mechanics. The details of the application development process are described in &quot;Software Implementation&quot; chapeter. In conclusion, the achieved results and improvement directions are discussed.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Navier-Stokes equations, finite difference method, successive over-relaxation method, jMonkeyEngine 3.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>