Essential Computational Fluid Dynamics

This book serves as a complete and self-contained introduction tothe principles of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD)analysis. It is deliberately short (at approximately 300pages) and can be used as a text for the first part of the courseof applied CFD followed by a software tutorial. The mainobjectives of this non-traditional format are: 1) To introduce andexplain, using simple examples where possible, the principles andmethods of CFD analysis and to demystify the `black box' of aCFD software tool, and 2) To provide a basic understanding of howCFD problems are set and which factors affect the success andfailure of the analysis. Included in the text are themathematical and physical foundations of CFD, formulation of CFDproblems, basic principles of numerical approximation (grids, consistency, convergence, stability, and order of approximation, etc), methods of discretization with focus on finite difference andfinite volume techniques, methods of solution of transient andsteady state problems, commonly used numerical methods for heattransfer and fluid flows, plus a brief introduction into turbulencemodeling.