Synopses & Reviews
The book provides an elementary tutorial presentation on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), emphasizing the fundamentals and surveying a variety of solution techniques whose applications range from low speed incompressible flow to hypersonic flow. It is aimed at persons who have little or no experience in this field, both recent graduates as well as professional engineers, and will provide an insight to the philosophy and power of CFD, an understanding of the mathematical nature of the fluid dynamics equations, and a familiarity with various solution techniques. For the third edition the text has been revised and updated.
Review
From the reviews of the third edition: "The objective of the book is to introduce a reader with limited prior knowledge of numerical techniques to the computation of fluid flows. The stated goal of the third edition is to present updates and clarifications while preserving the book's introductory nature. The focus of the book is exclusively on aeronautical applications. ... this book succeeds in achieving its goal of introducing readers to CFD." (Andreas Haselbacher, AIAA Journal, Vol. 47 (7), July, 2009)
Synopsis
Here is an elementary tutorial presentation on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) that emphasizes the fundamentals. The book goes on to survey a variety of solution techniques whose applications range from low speed incompressible flow to hypersonic flow.
Table of Contents
Basic Philosophy of CFD.- Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics.- Incompressible Inviscid Flows: Source and Vortex Panel Methods.- Mathematical Properties of the Fluid Dynamic Equations.- Discretization of Partial Differential Equations.- Transformations and Grids.- Explicit Finite Difference Methods: Some Selected Applications to Inviscid and Viscous Flows.- Boundary Layer Equations and Methods of Solution.- Implicit Time-Dependent Methods for Inviscid and Viscous Compressible Flows, with a Discussion of the Concept of Numerical Dissipation.- Introduction to Finite Element Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Introduction to Finite Volume Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Aspects of CFD Computations with Commercial Packages.