CONTENTS

Preface

1 INTRODUCTION

2 FLUIDS IN MOTION

3 NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS TO PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

4 COMPUTER-BASED ANALYSIS PROCEDURES AND TOOLS

5 DESCRIBING FLOW PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING

6 BUILDING A MESH

7 SETTING THE FLUID FLOW PARAMETERS

8 OBTAINING A SOLUTION

9 ANALYSING THE RESULTS

10 SOME CASE STUDIES

11 MODELLING FLOWS WITH ADDITIONAL COMPLEXITY

12 ACQUIRING CFD TECHNOLOGY

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A. PHOENICS RESULTS FOR A SIMPLE LAMINAR FLOW