Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics

Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics is a textbook for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students in mechanical, aerospace and chemical engineering. The book emphasizes understanding CFD through physical principles and examples. The author follows a consistent philosophy of control volume formulation of the fundamental laws of fluid motion and energy transfer, and introduces a novel notion of ‘smoothing pressure correction’ for solution of flow equations on collocated grids within the framework of the well-known SIMPLE algorithm. The subject matter is developed by considering pure conduction/diffusion, convective transport in 2-dimensional boundary layers and in fully elliptic flow situations and phase-change problems in succession. The book includes chapters on discretization of equations for transport of mass, momentum and energy on Cartesian, structured curvilinear and unstructured meshes, solution of discretised equations, numerical grid generation and convergence enhancement. Practising engineers will find this particularly useful for reference and for continuing education.

Author Biography

Professor Anil W. Date has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay since 1973 after receiving his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London. Over the last 30 years, he has taught courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, in all areas of thermo-fluids engineering. Prof Date is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and was Editor, for India, of the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer. He has contributed research papers to numerous international journals. He has been a visiting scientist at Cornell University, a visiting Professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and has lectured at universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Germany, UK, USA, and India.