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Chapter

11

Incompressible

Flow Analysis

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has played im-
portant role for the flow analysis recently. CFD provides detailed
flow behaviors over complicated configuration, such as flow over
an automobile body, flow over a city, flow circulation inside an
office, etc. CFD also provides insight into some flow behaviors
that might be harmful to human and reduces cost of performing
experiments.
Most of CFD software packages employ the finite
element and finite volume methods to solve for flow solutions. The
finite volume method is popular because it can provide accurate
flow solutions at reasonable cost. ANSYS includes Fluent soft-
ware which can perform different classes of flow analyses effec-
tively. This chapter demonstrates the use and capability of Fluent
to analyze both academic and application problems.