Computational Fluid Dynamics

This textbook presents numerical solution techniques for incompressible turbulent flows that occur in a variety of scientific and engineering settings including aerodynamics of ground-based vehicles and low-speed aircraft, fluid flows in energy systems, atmospheric flows, and biological flows. This book encompasses fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, numerical methods, and turbulence models, and emphasizes the foundation on how the governing partial differential equations for incompressible fluid flow can be solved numerically in an accurate and efficient manner. Extensive discussions on incompressible flow solvers and turbulence modeling are also offered. This text is an ideal instructional resource and reference for students, research scientists, and professional engineers interested in analyzing fluid flows using numerical simulations for fundamental research and industrial applications.

Dr. Takeo Kajishima is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University.  He holds B.Eng., M.Eng., and D.Eng. degrees from Osaka University in Mechanical Engineering.  His areas of expertise include simulation and modeling of multiphase flows, turbulent flows, and flow-structure interaction on the basis of computational fluid dynamics. He is a fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering and the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics.

Dr. Kunihiko Taira is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University.  He received his B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering with a double major in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from California Institute of Technology.  His research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, unsteady flows, active flow control, and reduced-order models.