Basic Philosophy of CFD -- Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics -- Incompressible Inviscid Flows: Source andVortex Panel Methods -- Mathematical Properties of the Fluid Dynamic Equations -- Discretization of Partial Differential Equations -- Transformations and Grids -- Explicit Finite Difference Methods: Some Selected Applications to Inviscid and Viscous Flows -- Boundary Layer Equations and Methods of Solution -- Implicit Time-Dependent Methods for Inviscid and Viscous Compressible Flows, with a Discussion of the Concept of Numerical Dissipation -- to Finite Element Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics -- to Finite Volume Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics -- Aspects of CFD Computations with Commercial Packages.

The book provides an elementary tutorial presentation on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), emphasizing the fundamentals and surveying a variety of solution techniques whose applications range from low speed incompressible flow to hypersonic flow. It is aimed at persons who have little or no experience in this field, both recent graduates as well as professional engineers, and will provide an insight to the philosophy and power of CFD, an understanding of the mathematical nature of the fluid dynamics equations, and a familiarity with various solution techniques. For the third edition the text has been revised and updated.