Book Description

This second edition of the book, Modeling and Computation of Boundary Layer Flows, extends the topic to include compressible flows including the energy equation and non-constant fluid properties in the continuity and momentum equations. The necessary additions are included in new chapters, leaving the first nine chapters to serve as an introduction to incompressible flows that can be used as an introduction to computational fluid dynamics with emphasis on the solution of the boundary-layer equations and the modeling and computation of boundary-layer flows. It also provides readers with a good understanding of the basic principles of fluid dynamics and numerical methods. A variety of readers, including undergraduate and graduate students, teachers or scientists working in aerodynamics or hydrodynamics will find the text interesting. The subjects covered in this book include laminar and, turbulent boundary layers and laminar--turbulent transition. The viscous--inviscid coupling between the boundary layer and the inviscid flow is also addressed. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional incompressible flows are considered. Physical and numerical aspects of boundary-layer flows are described in detail and a large number of homework problems are included. The book is accompanied by computer programs to solve boundary layer equations, the Orr-Sommerfeld equation and to compute transitions. Those programs can be used for classroom work but also for industry applications. Additional programs for three-dimensional flows are available from the first author. TOC:Introduction.- Conservation Equations for Mass and Momentum for Incompressible Flows.- Boundary-Layer Equations for Incompressible Flows.- Two-Dimensional Incompressible Laminar Flows.- Transition in Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flows.- Two-Dimensional Incompressible Turbulent Flows.- Three-Dimensional Incompressible Laminar and Turbulent Flows.- Transition in Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flows.- Interactive Boundary-Layer Theory.- Conservation Equations for Mass, Momentum and Energy.- Two-Dimensional Compressible Laminar Flows.- Two-Dimensional Compressible Turbulent Flows.- An Interactive Boundary-Layer Method for Three-Dimensional Flows.- Transition in Three-Dimensional Compressible Flows