Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wendt, John F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Fluids.; Computational intelligence.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Computational Intelligence.; Engineering, general.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

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 experi...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Philosophy of CFD
• Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics
• Incompressible Inviscid Flows: Source andVortex 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
• to Finite Element Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics
• to Finite Volume Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Aspects of CFD Computations with Commercial Packages.