UTT619E: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Fall 2009
Monday 10:30-13:30
Location: UUB 116

Reference Books:
-High-Resolution Methods for Incompressible and Low-Speed Flows, Dimitris Drikakis and William Rider.
Electronic version is available through ScienceDirect.
-Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows. Volume 1: Fundamentals of Numerical Discretization, Charles Hirch.
Electronic version is available through ScienceDirect.
-Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Joel H. Ferziger and Milovan Peric.
-Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, John C. Tannehill, Dale A. Anderson and Richard H. Pletcher.
-High-Order Methods for Incompressible Fluid Flow, Michel O. Deville, Paul F. Fischer and Ernest H. Mund.
-Spectral / hp element methods for CFD, George Karniadakis and Spencer J. Sherwin.
Electronic version is available.


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    • SOME USEFUL LINKS:
    BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
    LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage)
    The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard
    Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc)
    MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver (MUMPS)
    Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit (CUBIT)
    Incompressible Flow & Iterative Solver Software (IFISS)
    CFD Online