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Numerical simulations are useful tools to understand the complexity of the flows, which often is difficult to derive from laboratory experiments. This book, then, can be very useful to scholars doing laboratory experiments, since they often do not have extra time to study the large variety of numerical methods; furthermore they cannot spend more time in transferring one of the methods into a computer language. By means of numerical simulations, for example, insights into the vorticity field can be obtained which are difficult to obtain by measurements.
This book can be used by graduate as well as undergraduate students while reading books on theoretical fluid mechanics; it teaches how to simulate the dynamics of flow fields on personal computers. This will provide a better way of understanding the theory. Two chapters on Large Eddy Simulations have been included, since this is a methodology that in the near future will allow more universal turbulence models for practical applications. The direct simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations (DNS) is simple by finite-differences, that are satisfactory to reproduce the dynamics of turbulent flows. A large part of the book is devoted to the study of homogeneous and wall turbulent flows.
In the second chapter the elementary concept of finite difference is given to solve parabolic and elliptical partial differential equations. In successive chapters the 1D, 2D, and 3D Navier-Stokes equations are solved in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates. Finally, Large Eddy Simulations are performed to check the importance of the subgridscale models. Results for turbulent and laminar flows are discussed, with particular emphasis on vortex dynamics.
This volume will be of interest to graduate students and researchers wanting to compare experiments and numerical simulations, and to workers in the mechanical and aeronautic industries.
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Book Title: Fluid Flow Phenomena
Book Subtitle: A Numerical Toolkit
Editors: Paolo Orlandi
Series Title: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4281-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6095-7Published: 31 December 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0389-9Published: 30 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4281-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0926-5112
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 356
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Difference and Functional Equations, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical and Continuum Physics