Think Before You Compute: A Prelude to Computational Fluid Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9781108789998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

E. J. Hinch

Opis

This guide to computational fluid mechanics is for any beginning graduate student who is thinking of computing a flow. The text starts with a quick introduction to enable students to solve numerically a simple problem by a simple method, before detailing all the key essentials and discussing optional advanced topics.

Recenzje

'… Think Before You Compute [is] an attractive textbook for a standalone course on CFD or an excellent supplement for a graduate course that includes conceptual, analytic, and numerical approaches.' L. Mahadevan, Physics Today

Spis treści

Part I. A first problem: 1. The driven cavity; 2. Streamfunction-vorticity formulation; 3. Primitive variable formulation; Part II. Generalities: 4. Finite differences; 5. Finite elements; 6.Spectral methods; 7. Time integration; 8. Linear Algebra; Part III. Special topics: 9. Software packages and FreeFem++; 10. Hyperbolic equations; 11. Representation of surfaces; 12. Boundary integral method; 13. Fast Poisson solvers; 14. Fast Multipole Method; 15. Nonlinear considerations; 16. Particle methods; 17. Wavelets; Index.