I am making an assumption that you want to be CFD application engineer (one who

uses CFD software and solves industrial problem) and not the development engineer
(one who works on developing CFD software).

Following are the milestones you need to cross during your "CFD Learning"
journey.

Milestone 1: Basics of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

Milestone 2: Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Milestone 3: Learning commercial software(s) used in industry
Milestone 4: Working on some industrial projects

I strongly recommend not to jump over any milestone. You may regret it later.

Crossing Milestone 1: Basics of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

It is expected that one has already crossed this milestone during his/her academics.
We get enough time to learn these subject during academics. But let’s not assume
that here. You can still unlearn and relearn the concepts. Following are two courses
you can go through to clear your fundamentals of the subject.

1. Fluid Mechanics Course by Prof. S.K. Som (IIT

Kharagpur) http://nptel.ac.in/courses/11210...
2. Heat Transfer Course by Prof. Sukhatme and Gaitonde (IIT
Bombay) http://nptel.ac.in/courses/11210...
While working on this milestone, make sure that you refer to good books. Following
are two of my personal recommendations.

1. Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications eBook: Yunus Cengel,

John Cimbala
2. Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications: Yunus Cengel,
Afshin Ghajar
You need not to go through the complete course or book. What you need to
understand is basic concepts, derivation of governing equations, physical meaning of
each term in the equation and simplification and assumptions you can make to
simplify the governing equations. This knowledge will help you to simplify industrial
problem.

Crossing Milestone 2: Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics

This is probably not what you have already learned. So, you are good for fresh start.
There are many ways to learn fundamentals, but I would suggest you go through
following course:
 1. Computational Fluid Dynamics by Prof. S. Chakraborty (IIT
Kharagpur) http://nptel.ac.in/courses/11210...
2. Computational Fluid Dynamics by Dr. K. M. Singh (IIT
Roorkee) http://nptel.ac.in/courses/11210...
You may not be able to understand each concept in first go. Don’t worry, it would
happen when you go through it may be 2-3 times :). Just to make you comfortable,
you need not to be expert in numerical methods for being application engineer. You
need to just understand the overall implementation and when to use what. So just
look at each concept from physics point of view rather than focusing on mathematics.

During your learning, I would suggest you refer to the books (in the order given
below)

1. Computational Fluid Dynamics: John Anderson

2. An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume
Method (2nd Edition): H. Versteeg, W. Malalasekera

Crossing Milestone 3: Learning commercial software used in industry

Before working on this milestone, you have some background work to be done. Find
out your dream companies you want to see yourself working for. Find out what
software they are using. I suggest having a list of at-least 10 companies with you so
that probability of getting job is good :). Once you decided which companies and
which software, you can start learning those software. I believe (based on my
personal experience), that one can learn the software on their own. Now a day, the
software interface and help is so good that it’s just matter of time you are spending
learning the tools and techniques. Having said that, I strongly recommend, to attend
a well-designed course covering both back-end (what happens behind the button)
and front-end (how to use the buttons) of the software.

LearnCAx offers many CFD software based courses. All the courses are well designed
considering learning capacity/speed of students and learning needs for creating CFD
analysis engineer out of fresh graduate/post-graduate.

Following is the link to the website and courses :

LearnCAx Website: https://www.learncax.com/
LearnCAx Courses: https://www.learncax.com/courses

LearnCAx also has good knowledge base of blogs and webinars

LearnCAx Knowledge base: https://www.learncax.com/knowled...

Although, I am bit biased here (I guess you know the reason why), but believe me,
LearnCAx is the best place to learn CFD software and also all LearnCAx courses are
FREE :)
Crossing Milestone 4: Working on some industrial project

Once you have crossed first three milestones, I guess this would be easy one. Take a
note that for working on industrial project, you need not to do some sort of
internship at industry. If you get one, that’s good, but if not, that’s not end of the
road. Every company now publishes their work. In-fact, companies you have
shortlisted during milestone 3 must have published something about their CFD
work. What you can do is, start defining a similar problem for yourself from their
published work. You can start with simple problem and then move towards complex
project definition. Now a day, you can get CAD geometries for almost all devices
online (for your personal and learning use). Download few geometries, try out your
meshing skills, define boundary conditions from your sample problem and get CFD
results. Start interpreting those results and see what improvements you can do in the
performance of that device. Make sure that once you are done with the project, you
create a small report on the project. This will help you to show your work to
companies when you attend interview. Work on 4-5 such project, and you are done.

If you have any difficulty during working on the projects, you can always get help
from CFD community. There are many platforms where you can ask questions and
get help. LearnCAx Community Forum is one of them where students are asking
question which are answered by expert team from industry.

The End

Once you do everything above right, I am sure that end is going to be good/awesome.
Make sure that you prepare nice profile, put all your projects in the profile and write
a nice email when you apply to the companies :)

I know that the road looks to be bit long. But believe me, it’s not rocky, its long but
smooth road. Have patience and I guaranty a nice bottle of beer on seashore at the
end of this journey (and for rest of your life :)