Numerical Methods in Laminar and Turbulent Flows

Abstract

The texts of 81 papers are included, loosely grouped into nine sections: General Viscous Flow, Turbulent Flow, Boundary Layer Analysis, Flow With Heat Transfer, Free Surface Flows and Lubrication, Turbomachinery and Airfoil Flow, Two-Phase Flow and Meteorology, Mass Transport and Convection, and Numerical and Mathematical Concepts.The papers tend to be somewhat short, averaging about 12 pages in length, and some appear to be only brief overviews of works documented more thoroughly elsewhere.Nevertheless, a great deal of information is included on a wide array of fluid mechanical problems.Probably no individual would be interested in all this volume contains, but anyone interested in computational fluid mechanics will no doubt find several papers bearing upon his area of specialty.Both finite-element and finite-difference methodologies are well represented among the contributed papers.Although computational fluid mechanics has been in the past dominated by finite-difference techniques, the increasing interest in finite elements is apparent in that the majority of papers are here concerned with element procedures.In reading through the many papers, one cannot help but be impressed by the number and variety of innovative numerical approaches currently under investigation in fluid mechanics.The potential of these efforts is significant and augurs increased use of computational methods in simulating fluid flows in engineering and the physical sciences.It is indicative of the size of the field that, despite the number of papers contributed, and topical comprehensiveness of the volume, many leading researchers and major schools of thought are not represented.At the same time the volume serves as an extensive sampling of current endeavors and provides a very valuable source of references to the contemporary literature.Individuals concerned with research in computational fluid mechanics will find this book a very worthwhile addition to their libraries.