Computational Fluid Dynamics

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An outgrowth of a lecture series given since 1985 (with modifications) at the von Karman institute in Belgium. Provides a tutorial on computational fluid dynamics for graduate students and engineers with little or no experience in the field. Emphasizes the fundamentals, and surveys a variety of solution techniques with applications ranging from low speed incompressible to hypersonic flow. Many areas of application are considered, but most examples are from aeronautics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Book Description
The Beginner's guide to Computational Fluid Dynamics From aerospace design to applications in civil, mechanical, and chemical engineering, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is as essential as it is complex. The most accessible introduction of its kind, Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics With Applications, by experienced aerospace engineer John D. Anderson, Jr., gives you a thorough grounding in: the governing equations of fluid dynamics--their derivation, physical meaning, and most relevant forms; numerical discretization of the governing equations--including grids with appropriate transformations and popular techniques for solving flow problems; common CFD computer graphic techiniques; applications of CFD to 4 classic fluid dynamics problems--quasi-one-dimensional nozzle flows, two-dimensional supersonic flow, incompressible couette flow, and supersonic flow over a flat plate; state-of-the-art algorithms and applications in CFD--from the Beam and Warming Method to Second-Order Upwind Schemes and beyond.


Book Info
Provides a simple, satisfying, and motivational approach toward presenting the subject to the reader who is learning about CFD for the first time. DLC: Fluid dynamics - Data processing.


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This pioneering text provides an excellent introduction to CFD at the senior level in aerospace and mechanical engineering, and to some extent, chemical and civil engineering. It can also serve as a one-semester introductory course at the beginning graduate level, as a useful precursor to a more serious study of CFD in advanced books. It is presented in a very readable, informal, enjoyable style.


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