Essential Computational Fluid Dynamics

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John Wiley & Sons, Mar 29, 2010 - Science - 320 pages
This book serves as a complete and self-contained introduction to the principles of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) analysis. It is deliberately short (at approximately 300 pages) and can be used as a text for the first part of the course of applied CFD followed by a software tutorial. The main objectives of this non-traditional format are: 1) To introduce and explain, using simple examples where possible, the principles and methods of CFD analysis and to demystify the `black box’ of a CFD software tool, and 2) To provide a basic understanding of how CFD problems are set and which factors affect the success and failure of the analysis. Included in the text are the mathematical and physical foundations of CFD, formulation of CFD problems, basic principles of numerical approximation (grids, consistency, convergence, stability, and order of approximation, etc), methods of discretization with focus on finite difference and finite volume techniques, methods of solution of transient and steady state problems, commonly used numerical methods for heat transfer and fluid flows, plus a brief introduction into turbulence modeling.
 

Contents

10
7
Fundamentals 9
11
3
32
4
55
5
86
6
104
Application to Model Equations
121
Methods
143
9
171
Incompressible Flows
196
Art of CFD
225
Computational Grids
261
Conducting CFD Analysis
280
INDEX
297
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OLEG ZIKANOV is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan–Dearborn.

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