Abstract
Fluid dynamics is an area which has driven the development of numerical methods probably more than any other area. Computer simulations were done already in the 1940s, but 60 years later there are still many remaining challenges that are not yet solved. The computation of turbulent flow around a complete aircraft is still out of reach, even with the gigantic computers that are available today. The mathematical models have been known for more than 150 years, but sufficiently efficient computational methods are still lacking.
In this chapter we shall give a brief presentation of the basic equations and methods, and then follow up with a few applications. In particular, we introduce finite volume methods, which is a class of numerical methods that has not been treated earlier in the book.
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Gustafsson, B. (2011). Fluid Dynamics. In: Fundamentals of Scientific Computing. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19495-5_17
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