Fluid Flow Phenomena: A Numerical Toolkit

ISBN-13: 9780792360957 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 356 str.

Paolo Orlandi; P. Orlandi

Opis

Dealing with the simulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for laminar and turbulent flows, this work permits the reader to play with the Navier-Stokes equations and to understand the complex physics related to fluid mechanics. Numerical simulations are useful tools for understanding the complexity of the flows, which often is difficult to derive from laboratory experiments. This book, then, can be very useful to scholars doing laboratory experiments, since they often do not have extra time to study the large variety of numerical methods; furthermore they cannot spend more time in transferring one of the methods into a computer language. By means of numerical simulations, for example, insights into the vorticity field can be obtained which are difficult to obtain by measurements. This book can be used by graduate as well as undergraduate students while reading books on theoretical fluid mechanics; it teaches how to simulate the dynamics of flow fields on personal computers. This will provide a better way of understanding the theory.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Introductory comments and summary. 2. Finite differences. 3. The Burgers equation. 4. Two-dimensional flows in Cartesian coordinates. 5. Two-dimensional flows in general curvilinear coordinates. 6. Two-dimensional turbulence. 7. Axisymmetric flows. 8. Three-dimensional flows with three periodic directions. 9. Flows with walls in Cartesian coordinates. 10. Flows in cylindrical coordinates with one wall. 11. Flows in cylindrical coordinates with two walls. 12. Large eddy simulations. 13. Large eddy simulations of wall-bounded flows. References. Captions plates. Diskette information.