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Summary
Summary
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics is a textbook for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students in mechanical, aerospace and chemical engineering. The book emphasizes understanding CFD through physical principles and examples. The author follows a consistent philosophy of control volume formulation of the fundamental laws of fluid motion and energy transfer, and introduces a novel notion of 'smoothing pressure correction' for solution of flow equations on collocated grids within the framework of the well-known SIMPLE algorithm. The subject matter is developed by considering pure conduction/diffusion, convective transport in 2-dimensional boundary layers and in fully elliptic flow situations and phase-change problems in succession. The book includes chapters on discretization of equations for transport of mass, momentum and energy on Cartesian, structured curvilinear and unstructured meshes, solution of discretised equations, numerical grid generation and convergence enhancement. Practising engineers will find this particularly useful for reference and for continuing education.
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Date (IIT, Bombay, India) has prepared a very good reference and course resource. Some of the book's strengths lie in its introduction to multiphase flows with phase change; the treatment of various boundary conditions, with much clarity; and a novel smoothing pressure-correction scheme. Emphasis is on the finite-volume method in conservative form. The book clearly illustrates discretization for structured and unstructured Cartesian and curvilinear meshes. Although the book does not provide many detailed examples in comparison to other computational fluid dynamics books, however, it provides clear overall calculation procedures. There are an adequate number of homework problems; thus it may serve as a course resource for first-year graduate students. Date discusses important applications that may interest researchers but are limited to topics like turbulence, boundary layers, and source terms in phase change. The author does not address other challenging areas such as transonic and supersonic flows and shock capturing techniques, for example. The book includes code listings in Fortran; in future editions it might be desirable to provide C codes for a generation of researchers not familiar with Fortran. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. R. N. Laoulache University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Table of Contents
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 1D heat conduction |
| 3 1D conduction-convection |
| 4 2D boundary layers |
| 5 2D convection-Cartesian grids |
| 6 2D convection-complex domains |
| 7 Phase change |
| 8 Numerical grid generation |
| 9 Convergence enhancement |
