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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS May 27, 2005 0:54

IntroductiontoComputationalFluidDynamicsintroducesalltheprimarycom-
ponents for learning and practicing computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The
book is written for final year undergraduates and/or graduate students in me-
chanical, chemical, and aeronautical engineering who have undergone basic
courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer. Chap-
ters cover discretisation of equations for transport of mass, momentum, and
energy on Cartesian, structured curvilinear, and unstructured meshes; solution
of discretised equations, numerical grid generation, and convergence enhance-
ment. The book follows a consistent philosophy of control-volume formulation
of the fundamental laws of fluid motion and energy transfer and introduces a
novel notion of “smoothing pressure correction” for solution of flow equa-
tions on collocated grids within the framework of the well-known SIMPLE
algorithm.
There are over 50 solved problems in the text and over 130 end-of-chapter
problems. Practicing industry professionals will also find this book useful for
continuing education and refresher courses.

Professor Anil W. Date obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineer-
ingfromBombayUniversity;hismaster’sdegreeinthermo-fluidsfromUMIST
Manchester, UK; and his doctorate in heat transfer from Imperial College of
Science and Technology, London. He has been a member of the Thermo-
Fluids-Engineering group of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT
Bombay since 1973. Over the past thirty years, he has taught courses at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level in thermodynamics, energy conversion,
heat and mass transfer, and combustion. He has been engaged in research and
consulting in thermo-fluids engineering and is an active reviewer of research
proposals and papers for various national and international bodies and journals.
He has been Editor for India of the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer and
has contributed research papers to several international journals in the field.
He has been a visiting scientist at Cornell University and a visiting professor
at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He has delivered seminar lectures at
universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Germany, UK, USA, and India.
Professor Date derives great satisfaction from applying thermo-fluid science
to rural-technology problems in India and has taught courses in science, tech-
nology, and society and in appropriate technology at IIT Bombay. Professor
Date is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE).

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