Computational Fluid Dynamics
A Practical Approach
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Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach, Fourth Edition is an introduction to CFD fundamentals and commercial CFD software to solve engineering problems. The book is designed for a wide variety of engineering students new to CFD, but is also ideal for practicing engineers learning CFD for the first time. Combining an appropriate level of mathematical background, worked examples, computer screen shots, and step-by-step processes, this book walks the reader through modeling and computing, as well as interpreting CFD results. This new edition has been updated throughout, with new content and improved figures, examples and problems.
Key Features
- Provides comprehensive coverage of CFD techniques, including discretization via finite element and spectral element as well as finite difference and finite volume methods and multigrid method
- Delivers full coverage of high-pressure fluid dynamics and the meshless approach to provide a broader overview of application areas where CFD can be used
- Offers expanded discussions on verification and validation techniques
- Reorganized and rewritten to better meet the needs of CFD instructors and students
- Includes quantitative end-of-chapter problems
Readership
Senior level undergraduate and graduate students of mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, environmental and marine engineering needing to take an upper level CFD course / Navstem estimated the 2020 US course enrollment at 2,800 students per year, 8% higher than the previous year, Beginner users of commercial CFD software tools
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
2. CFD Solution Procedure – A Beginning
3. Governing Equations for CFD – Fundamentals
4. CFD Mesh Generation – A Practical Guideline (new)
5. CFD Techniques - The Basics
6. CFD Solution Analysis – Essentials
7. Practical Guidelines for CFD Simulation and Analysis
8. Some Applications of CFD with Examples
9. Some Advanced Topics in CFD
10. Case Studies and Latest Developments on Applications of CFD (online bonus chapter)
Product details
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2023
- Published: September 1, 2023
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323939386
About the Authors
Jiyuan Tu
Jiyuan Tu is Professor and Deputy Head, Research and Innovation, Department of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia. Professor Tu’s research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical heat transfer (NHT), computational and experimental modelling of multiphase flows, fluid-structure interaction, optimal design of drug delivery devices, and simulation of blood flow in arteries.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor and Deputy Head, Research and Innovation, Department of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia.
Guan Yeoh
Guan Heng Yeoh is a professor at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW, and a principal research scientist at ANSTO. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows and the group leader of Computational Thermal-Hydraulics of OPAL Research Reactor, ANSTO. He has approximately 250 publications including 10 books, 12 book chapters, 156 journal articles and 115 conference papers with an H-index of 33 and over 4490 citations. His research interests are computational fluid dynamics (CFD); numerical heat and mass transfer; turbulence modelling using Reynolds averaging and large eddy simulation; combustion, radiation heat transfer, soot formation and oxidation, and solid pyrolysis in fire engineering; fundamental studies in multiphase flows: free surface, gas-particle, liquid-solid (blood flow and nanoparticles), and gas-liquid (bubbly, slug/cap, churn-turbulent, and subcooled nucleate boiling flows); computational modelling of industrial systems of single-phase and multiphase flows.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor, Mechanical Engineering (CFD), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chaoqun Liu
Dr. Chaoqun Liu received both BS (1968) and MS (1981) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and PhD (1989) from University of Colorado at Denver, USA. He is currently the Tenured and Distinguished Professor and the Director of Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling at University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA. He has worked on high order direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) for flow transition and turbulence for over 30 years since 1989. He has published 11 professional books, 120 journal papers and 145 conference papers. He is the founder and major contributor of the third generation of vortex identification methods including the Omega, Liutex/Rortex, Liutex-Omega, Modified Liutex-Omega, Liutex Core Line methods, RS vorticity decomposition and R-NR velocity gradient decomposition.
Affiliations and Expertise
Tenured and Distinguished Professor and the Director of Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling at University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.
Yao Tao
Dr. Yao Tao is a research officer in the School of Engineering at RMIT University in Victoria, Australia.
Affiliations and Expertise
School of Engineering, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia