CFLOW

The Compressible Flow website is a placeholder for information related to the Compressible Flow course available in the Applied Mechanics Master’s Program at the Chalmers University of Technology. 

The Compressible Flow website framework was set up by Niklas Andersson in 2016 and is based on the Spectral theme for Jekyll developed by HTML5 UP.

ABOUT CFLOW

CFLOW is an online tool that can be used to solve 1D and 2D compressible flow problems. CFLOW contains a JavaScript-based 1D compressible flow finite-volume inviscid solver, which means that all computations are done on the user’s client. The solver is explicit and uses a three-stage Runge-Kutta time marching technique and a user-defined upwind biased convective scheme (at most third-order accurate). The CFLOW finite-volume solver is a lightweight, simplified version of the more generic and advanced compressible flow solver G3D::FLOW, developed and maintained at the Chalmers University of Technology.

In addition to the built-in finite-volume solver, CFLOW also contains a compressible flow calculator for solving typical compressible flow problems such as 1D flow with friction or heat addition, normal and oblique shocks, and moving wave problems.

A Python-based version of CFLOW is available here.

CFLOW was developed and implemented in the OFC framework by Niklas Andersson at the Chalmers University of Technology.