This book is a practical guide to large scale computational fluid dynamics which covers how to write large scale efficient fluid dynamics codes before considering the applications of these codes. It highlights different open source high performance libraries which can be used to cut code development time and is accompanied by a website hosting software and tutorials.
A Practical Guide to Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics begins with an overview of fluid mechanics and the different methods (experimental, analytical and numerical) of analysing fluid systems. It provides an introduction to the finite element method and considers computational issues. Diagnostics and validation cases are then discussed, before turbulent flows, fluid structure interaction and free surface flows are covered. Finally future trends are considered.
