How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

Hi, has anybody an idea where i can find an introduction how to program a cfd code? I do not think about a book like Ferzinger, but a very small program where you can see the idea of finite volume method.

Greetings Peter

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

Try using the book:

An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics : The Finite Volume Method by H. K. Versteeg (Author), W. Malalasekera (Author).

It's sort of a kindergarden approach to the subject, with minimal rigor and maximum practicability.

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

Dear Peter

Take Rouch or S. Patankar, make all derivations by your own hand, it will take year or two, and write you owm code.

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

Hi Peter

From my point of view a very good book is by:

Michael Griebel, Thomas Dornseifer, Tilman Neunhoeffer Numerical Simulation in Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Introduction (Siam Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation)

The book guids you through the basic ideas in writing a CFD-code. All ideas are very well explaned by codelets in C, which makes the book extremely usefull and easy to follow.

Topics like; boundary-conditions, complex-geometry, free-surface-flows and even turbulence is explained using the 2D reference-solver.

I believe the book is also available in German (to a much more reasonable price then the SIAM version)

Best Matthias

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

hallo dear,

where will i get this book?

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

Ashish,

you can get the book by Griebel from, eg. amazon.com.

M.

Re: How to learn programming a cfd code?
 

If you already know a suitable language (C++, F77, etc), Then 'Computational Fluid Dynamics' by John Anderson is a good start. By about chapter 5 he has laid out all the basics of CFD, and then does a step-by-step guide to a simple quasi-1D program, even showing results after one time step so that you can make a direct comparison. It helped me no end. Steve.