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Emeritus Professor Brian Spalding 

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Professor Dudley Brian Spalding, the former head of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Unit at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, passed away on 27 November 2016. A longtime member of The Combustion Institute, Spalding’s work in fluid flow, combustion, and heat and mass transfer deeply influenced the research of CI’s international society of combustion scientists and practitioners. Professor Brian Spalding is the father of engineering CFD. By the late 1960’s, he was leading a CFD group of more than 30 researchers at Imperial College, London, as Professor of Heat Transfer. This group was tackling some of the key issues necessary for engineering CFD to become a reality.

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An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method by H. Versteeg W. Malalasekera

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This established, leading textbook, is suitable for courses in CFD. The new edition covers new techniques and methods, as well as considerable expansion of the advanced topics and applications (from one to four chapters).

This book presents the fundamentals of computational fluid mechanics for the novice user. It provides a thorough yet user-friendly introduction to the governing equations and boundary conditions of viscous fluid flows, turbulence and its modelling, and the finite volume method of solving flow problems on computers.

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What Does Discretization Mean?

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For the basic equations of fluid mechanics (Navier-Stokes equations or mass, – momentum and energy conservation equations) no analytical solutions are known, except for special cases like the plane plate. An analytical solution would be, for example, an equation for the density ρ as a function of the other quantities u, v, w, e.

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PyFR (Python Flow Research)

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PyFR is an open-source Python based framework for solving advection-diffusion type problems on streaming architectures using the Flux Reconstruction approach of Huynh. The framework is designed to solve a range of governing systems on mixed unstructured grids containing various element types. It is also designed to target a range of hardware platforms via use of an in-built domain specific language derived from the Mako templating engine.

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Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications by Jiri Blazek

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Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications, Third Edition presents students, engineers, and scientists with all they need to gain a solid understanding of the numerical methods and principles underlying modern computation techniques in fluid dynamics. By providing complete coverage of the essential knowledge required in order to write codes or understand commercial codes, the book gives the reader an overview of fundamentals and solution strategies in the early chapters before moving on to cover the details of different solution techniques.

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GPUs Are Taking Over the Engineering Simulation Market

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Despite some holdouts, most simulation providers have woken up and smelled the graphics cards.Once the domain of specialists with high-powered computers, computer aided engineering (CAE) is becoming a workstation application for designers. Are computational fluid dynamic (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA) and other simulation programs taking advantage of GPU acceleration?

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Eight Applications of Thermal Management in Additive Manufacturing

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Additive manufacturing and software tools facilitate heat exchanger design, resulting in improved performance in many thermal management applications.With product design becoming increasingly complex in nearly every industry, engineers have to do more with less, especially when it comes to thermal management. Appropriately managing product temperature is a difficult task with multiple design constraints.

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