Fluid Dynamics with a Computational Perspective [Paperback]

This book provides a development of fluid flow theory and how computations are formulated and effected.Fluid Dynamics with a Computational Perspective is a combination of traditional methods of theory and analysis and newer methods of computation and numerical simulation. Underlying both are the principles of fluid flow. Fluid Dynamics with a Computational Perspective synthesizes traditional theory and modern computation.Fluid Dynamics with a Computational Perspective is a combination of traditional methods of theory and analysis and newer methods of computation and numerical simulation. Underlying both are the principles of fluid flow. Fluid Dynamics with a Computational Perspective synthesizes traditional theory and modern computation.In recent decades, numerical algorithms and computer power have advanced to the point where computer simulations of the equations fluid flow have become routine. How does that affect the way we teach fluid dynamics? This book seizes on that question. One of its objectives is to integrate computer solutions into fluid dynamics education; another is to review important concepts of fluid dynamics that a computationalist needs in order to understand computed flows. This book provides a development of fluid flow theory in concert with a perspective on how computations are formulated and effected.1. Introduction to viscous flow; 2. Elements of computational analysis; 3. Creeping flow; 4. Intermediate Reynolds numbers; 5. High Reynolds number and boundary layer; 6. Turbulent flow; 7. Compressible flow; 8. Interfaces.