Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques – An Introduction Based on Finite Element Methods 2e

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is concerned with the efficient numerical solution of the partial differential equations that describe fluid dynamics. CFD techniques are commonly used in the many areas of engineering where fluid behavior is an important factor. Traditional fields of application include aerospace and automotive design, and more recently, bioengineering and consumer and medical electronics. With Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques, 2nd edition, Rainald Lohner introduces the reader to the techniques required to achieve efficient CFD solvers, forming a bridge between basic theoretical and algorithmic aspects of the finite element method and its use in an industrial context where methods have to be both as simple but also as robust as possible. This heavily revised second edition takes a practice-oriented approach with a strong emphasis on efficiency, and offers important new and updated material on; * Overlapping and embedded grid methods* Treatment of free surfaces* Grid generation* Optimal use of supercomputing hardware* Optimal shape and process design Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics Techniques, 2nd edition is a vital resource for engineers, researchers and designers working on CFD, aero and hydrodynamics simulations and bioengineering. Its unique practical approach will also appeal to graduate students of fluid mechanics and aero and hydrodynamics as well as biofluidics.

Table of Contents:
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1 INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 1.1 The CFD code. 1.2 Porting research codes to an industrial context. 1.3 Scope of the book. 2 DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS. 2.1 Representation of a grid. 2.2 Derived data structures for static data. 2.3 Derived data structures for dynamic data. 2.4 Sorting and searching. 2.5 Proximity ins pace. 2.6 Nearest-neighbours and graphs. 2.7 Distance to surface. 3 GRID GENERATION. 3.1 Description of the domain to be gridded. 3.2 Variation of element size and shape. 3.3 Element type. 3.4 Automatic grid generation methods. 3.5 Other grid generation methods. 3.6 The advancing front technique. 3.7 Delaunay triangulation. 3.8 Grid improvement. 3.9 Optimal space-filling tetrahedra. 3.10 Grids with uniform cores. 3.11 Volume-to-surface meshing. 3.12 Navier-Stokes gridding techniques. 3.13 Filling space with points/arbitrary objects. 3.14 Applications. 4 APPROXIMATION THEORY. 4.1 The basic problem. 4.2 Choice of trial functions. 4.3 General properties of shape functions. 4.4 Weighted residual methods with local functions. 4.5 Accuracy and effort. 4.6 Grid estimates. 5 APPROXIMATION OF OPERATORS. 5.1 Taxonomy of methods. 5.2 The Poisson operator. 5.3 Recovery of derivatives. 6 DISCRETIZATION IN TIME. 6.1 Explicit schemes. 6.2 Implicit schemes. 6.3 Awordof caution. 7 SOLUTION OF LARGE SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS. 7.1 Direct solvers. 7.2 Iterative solvers. 7.3 Multigrid methods. 8 SIMPLE EULER/NAVIER-STOKES SOLVERS. 8.1 Galerkin approximation. 8.2 Lax-Wendroff (Taylor-Galerkin). 8.3 Solving for the consistent mass matrix. 8.4 Artificial viscosities. 8.5 Boundary conditions. 8.6 Viscous fluxes. 9 FLUX-CORRECTED TRANSPORT SCHEMES. 9.1 The FCT Concept. 9.2 Algorithmic implementation. 9.3 Steepening. 9.4 FCT for Taylor-Galerkin schemes. 9.5 Iterative limiting. 9.6 Limiting for systems of equations. 9.7 Examples. 9.8 Summary. 10 EDGE-BASED COMPRESSIBLE FLOWSOLVERS. 10.1 The Laplacian operator. 10.2 First derivatives: first form. 10.3 First derivatives: second form. 10.4 Edge-based schemes for advection-dominated PDEs. 11 INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWSOLVERS. 11.1 The advection operator. 11.2 The divergence operator. 11.3 Artificial compressibility. 11.4 Temporal discretization:projection schemes. 11.5 Temporal discretization: implicit schemes. 11.6 Temporal discretization of higher order. 11.7 Acceleration to the steady state. 11.8 Projective prediction of pressure increments. 11.9 Examples. 12 MESH MOVEMENT. 12.1 The ALE frame of reference. 12.2 Geometric conservation law. 12.3 Mesh movement algorithms. 12.4 Region of moving elements. 12.5 PDE-based distance functions. 12.6 Penalization of deformed elements. 12.7 Special movement techniques for RANS grids. 12.8 Rotating parts/domains. 12.9 Applications. 13 INTERPOLATION. 13.1 Basic interpolation algorithm. 13.2 Fastest 1-timealgorithm:brute force. 13.3 Fastest N-time algorithm: octree search. 13.4 Fastest known vicinity algorithm: neighbour-to-neighbour. 13.5 Fastest grid-to-grid algorithm: advancing-front vicinity. 13.6 Conservative interpolation. 13.7 Surface-grid-to-surface-grid interpolation. 13.8 Particle-grid interpolation. 14 ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT. 14.1 Optimal-mesh criteria. 14.2 Error indicators/estimators. 14.3 Refinement strategies. 14.4 Tutorial: h-refinement with tetrahedra. 14.5 Examples. 15 EFFICIENT USE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE. 15.1 Reduction of cache-misses. 15.2 Vector machines. 15.3 Parallel machines: general considerations. 15.4 Shared-memory parallel machines. 15.5 SIMD machines. 15.6 MIMD machines. 15.7 The effect of Moore's law on parallel computing. 16 SPACE-MARCHING AND DEACTIVATION. 16.1 Space-marching. 16.2 Deactivation. 17 OVERLAPPING GRIDS. 17.1 Interpolation criteria. 17.2 External boundaries and domains. 17.3 Interpolation: initialization. 17.4 Treatment of domains that are partially outside. 17.5 Removal of inactive regions. 17.6 Incremental interpolation. 17.7 Changes to the flow solver. 17.8 Examples. 18 EMBEDDED AND IMMERSED GRID TECHNIQUES. 18.1 Kinetic treatment of embedded or immersed objects. 18.2 Kinematic treatment of embedded surfaces. 18.3 Deactivation of interior regions. 18.4 Extrapolation of the solution. 18.5 Adaptive mesh refinement. 18.6 Load/flux transfer. 18.7 Treatment of gaps or cracks. 18.8 Direct link to particles. 18.9 Examples. 19 TREATMENT OF FREE SURFACES. 19.1 Interface fitting methods. 19.2 Interface capturing methods. 20 OPTIMAL SHAPE AND PROCESS DESIGN. 20.1 The general optimization problem. 20.2 Optimization techniques. 20.3 Adjoint solvers. 20.4 Geometric constraints. 20.5 Approximate gradients. 20.6 Multipoint optimization. 20.7 Representation of surface changes. 20.8 Hierarchical design procedures. 20.9 Topological optimization via porosities. 20.10 Examples. References. Index.

About the Author :
Rainald Lohner, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA? Rainald Lohner gained his PhD from the University of Wales, Swansea. He is now a director of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Center of the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at George Mason University, Virginia, USA. His research interests include Fluid-Structure Interaction, Unstructured Grid Generation, Pre-Processing, and Parallel Computing.? Notable achievements include a Distinguished Professor award 'for his substantive and innovative contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics' by GMU and being a made a Honorary Professor of the University of Wales at Swansea.

Review :
?This book has a good concept und gives a compact description of applied CFD.? (ZAMM, October 2009)