Recent Advances in Heat Transfer Calculation

Author: Tao Wenquan
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book references over 900 papers from more than 60 authoritative journals both domestically and internationally that focus on numerical methods and applications in fluid flow and heat transfer. Combining the author's own research achievements and long-term experience in teaching graduate students, it introduces the following eight aspects: (1) grid generation techniques; (2) research progress in discretization schemes for convection terms; (3) new developments in methods for handling the pressure-velocity coupling relationship; (4) numerical methods for boundary condition treatment; (5) techniques to accelerate the convergence of algebraic equation solvers; (6) estimation of benchmark solutions and numerical errors; (7) large commercial software in computational heat transfer and online resources; (8) an introduction to newly developed numerical methods in recent years. For each new method that has emerged in the fields of computational heat transfer over the past decade, the book generally selects one approach for a thorough explanation, briefly outlining the characteristics of other methods. This allows readers to understand the essence of the method through learning one scheme while also gaining a concise overview of the alternatives, facilitating their implementation on computers through self-programming. The appendix of the book also provides program blocks such as unstructured grids for reference. Rich in content and comprehensive in references, it serves not only as a textbook for graduate-level computational heat transfer courses but also as an excellent reference for scientists and engineers working in computational heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics.