Links - Online Books & Guides
Contents:
CFD Introductions
- CFD-Wiki Introduction to CFD
- A growing section of CFD-Wiki covering the basics of what CFD is.
- Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, by CHAM
- A nice introduction to CFD by CHAM - the makers of the CFD code Phoenics.
Gives a brief overview of what CFD is, what it can be used for and when it
can be be trusted. The page ends with some promotion of their codes.
- CFD 101, by Flow Science
- Introductory texts covering many CFD topics. Well written but mixed up
with a lot of promotion of their code Flow3D. If you are interested in free-surface
simulations you should definitely visit this site.
Books
- Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
- An introductory CFD book by C. T. Shaw. Available in full text directly
online. The book is a bit old. It was written 1992.
- Numerical methods for 1D compressible flows
- An interactive book by M.Manzini, A.Ticca, G.Zanetti
- Modern Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow
- UC Berkeley E266A course notes by P. Colella and E.G. Puckett.
- Numerical Recipes
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- This classical book is now available directly online in both C and Fortran
versions! There is also a lot of additional information here - recommended!
- Mason's Applied Computational Aerodynamics Text
- An electronic version of the class notes for a course in Applied Computational
Aerodynamics at Virginia Polytech. A mix of pre-CFD stuff and CFD.
- Solution Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics
- By Thomas H. Pulliam. Based on notes from a VKI lecture series in 1986.
Best Practice Guidelines
- MARNET-CFD Best Practice Guidelines for Marine Applications of CFD
- A very good publication from MARNET-CFD. The 86-page guide covers most
important areas of CFD and is a must read for anyone working with CFD. Freely
available online as a pdf file. Highly recommended!
- CFD-Wiki Best Practise Guidelines
- A growing section of CFD-Wiki focused on creating best-practise guidelines for various applications areas.
QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice
QNET-CFD was a EU framework 5 thematic
network on quality and trust for the industrial application of CFD. The network
was in operation from 2001 to 2004 and consisted of 44 partners from both academia
and industry. They divided their work into 6 thematic areas and for each thematic
area they compiled a best-practice guide as linked below. These guides are some
of the best sources of up-to-date application-specific advice for CFD simulations
that you will find. They are also freely available for anyone to read on the
web. Highly recommended!
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for External Aerodynamics
- 4 pages with guidelines for simulating typical external aerodynamics problems.
Test cases include a few different types of wings, the car-like Ahmed body
and a full aircraft. The document is a bit thin but it is still well worth
reading through.
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for Combustion and Heat Transfer
- 10 pages with guidelines for simulating combustion and heat transfer.
The main focus is on in-cylinder combustion. The guide is a bit biased and
focused on details applicable only to certain codes or models. However, it
is still a great source of information for anyone starting to do work in
this field.
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for Chemical and Process, Thermal Hydraulics and
Nuclear Safety
- 4 pages with guidelines for simulating chemical processes, thermal hydraulics
and nuclear safety. The vast application area this guide tries to cover makes
it very difficult to draw common conclusions and cover all important aspect
of doing CFD simulations of all these problems. But it is a good starting
point and you will almost certainly learn something from reading through
the material.
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for Civil Construction and HVAC
- 6 pages with guidelines for simulating flows around and inside buildings,
flows around bridges, flows in rivers etc. The guide presents a collection
of representative test-cases (an airport terminal building, sediment transport
in a river, air conditioning in an office, fire in a tunnel, coastal flow
and bridge aerodynamics). Best-practice guidelines are given for each case.
Although this guide is quite short it contains a lot of very valuable information
for people who are starting to do CFD simulations in these fields. Highly
recommended!
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for Environmental Flows
- 6 pages with guidelines for simulating environmental flows. Also this guide
is filled with lots of practical advice for anyone doing CFD simulations
of environmental flows like flows in the atmosphere, flows over surface obstacles
etc.
- QNET-CFD Best Practice Advice for Turbomachinery Internal Flows
- 7 pages with guidelines for simulating turbomachinery flows. A wonderful
summary of all the things you should think of when doing turbomachinery CFD.
By reading this you will avoid a lot of pit-falls that most turbomachinery
CFD engineers spend years to learn the hard way. Highly recommended!
Guides to Fluid-Dynamics and Aerodynamics
- NASA's Beginner's
Guide to Aerodynamics
- A huge site with lots of information on aerodynamics. Includes many interactive
java scripts. You can also find links to other sites. This is a very nice
introductory site. Highly recommended!
- Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics
- A comprehensive and growing internet guide to aerodynamics, includes a
small chapter on CFD. This is a very nice site that gives you a good introduction
to the different sides of aerodynamics. It has a lot of references and also
includes examples of applications in areas like aeronautical sciences, road
vehicles, propulsion, energy conversion systems, design and more.
- Videos About Fluid Dynamics
- Don't miss these excellent classical videos about fluid dynamics. They were created by Ascher Shapiro at MIT back in 1961.
- Aerodynamics for Students
- A very nice web textbook on aerodynamics.
- Applied Aerodynamics: A Digital Textbook
- A limited demo-version is freely available. By Ilan Kroo.
- Fluidmech.Net
- A comprehensive and growing internet guide to fluid mechanics. Includes
a large section dedicated to the Navier-Stokes equations as well as a very
nice collection of fluid dynamics pictures.
Encyclopedias
- CFD-Wiki
- A wiki started in 2005. The content is free and is written collaboratively by visitors of CFD Online. In early 2007 CFD-Wiki had more than 2,000 registered authors, working on more than 200 CFD articles. CFD-Wiki will hopefully become the new free ultimate online CFD reference.
- Wikipedia CFD Section
- A growing online encyclopedia about CFD. Visitors add the content themselves.
Perhaps Wikipedia will become the future standard reference for everything?!
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
- A wealth of reference information about physics. Also has a very complete
math section. This encyclopedia of science is one of the most impressing
works of a single individual that I've ever seen on the internet. Everyone
working in a field related to science should have this site bookmarked. Highly
recommended!
- CFD Vocabulary
- A list of about 30 common CFD terms.
