Fluid Dynamics - Constantine Pozrikidis

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Résumé :
Ready access to computers has de?ned a new era in teaching and learning. The opportunity to extend the subject matter of traditional science and engineering curricula into the realm of scienti?c computing has become not only desirable, but also necessary. Thanks to portability and low overhead and operating cost, experimentation by numerical simulation has become a viable substitute, and occasionally the only alternative, to physical experimentation. The new framework has necessitated the writing of texts and monographs from a modern perspective that incorporates numerical and computer progr- ming aspects as an integral part of the discourse. Under this modern directive, methods, concepts, and ideas are presented in a uni?ed fashion that motivates and underlines the urgency of the new elements, but neither compromises nor oversimpli?es the rigor of the classical approach. Interfacing fundamental concepts and practical methods of scienti?c c- puting can be implemented on di?erent levels. In one approach, theory and implementation are kept complementary and presented in a sequential fashion. In another approach, the coupling involves deriving computational methods and simulation algorithms, and translating equations into computer code - structions immediately following problem formulations. Seamlessly interjecting methods of scienti?c computing in the traditional discourse o?ers a powerful venue for developing analytical skills and obtaining physical insight.

Sommaire:
to Kinematics.- More on Kinematics.- Flow Computation based on Kinematics.- Forces and Stresses.- Hydrostatics.- Equation of Motion and Vorticity Transport.- Channel, Tube, and Film Flow.- Finite-Difference Methods.- Low Reynolds Number Flow.- High Reynolds Number Flow.- Vortex Motion.- Aerodynamics.

From the reviews of the second edition: The book unites the traditional fluid dynamics with computer programming and numerical solutions using MATLAB programs and CFD methods. ... The combination of introduction into theoretical and numerical fluid dynamics by the combined treatment immediately after formulation of many problems is interesting and very useful. ... highly recommended for students, researchers, and engineers. (Bernd Platzer, Zeitschrift f?r Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 90 (6), 2010)