Modeling and Simulation in Thermal and Fluids Engineering

This textbook comprehensively covers the fundamentals behind mathematical modeling of engineering problems to obtain the required solution. It comprehensively discusses modeling concepts through conservation principles with a proper blending of mathematical expressions.

Autorentext

Krishnan Murugesan is currently teaching at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. He is specialized in broad research areas such as computational fluid dynamics, modeling of heat and moisture transport through porous solid, fuel cells, cooling towers, ground source heat pump systems.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. 2. Conservation Equations. 3. Finite Difference and Finite Volume Methods. 4. Finite Element Method. 5. Modeling of Heat Transfer Problems. 6. Modeling of Flow Problems. 7. Navier-Stokes Equations.