Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

by Suhas V. Patankar

Book Overview

This book focuses on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms. Using simple algebra and elementary calculus, the author develops numerical methods for predicting these processes mainly based on physical considerations. Through this approach, readers will develop a deeper understanding of the underlying physical aspects of heat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B01AWKUOBW
• ISBN13: 9780891165224
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: CRC Press LLC
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Goob book

The book is useful for those who begin studying CFD methods in heat transfer and fluid flows. It has been a standard for several years.

Excellent Introductory CFD Text

This book is a wonderful way to understand the fundamental concepts behind techniques such as the SIMPLE algorithm. Patankar begins in one dimension, expands his approach, and presents the results very clearly. His physical insights are very well presented, and his narrative style is easy to read. One may much more profitably read the recent literature in this area after having examined Patankar's text.

best fundamental CFD book, must have

This is the best CFD book I ever read !! And it should be your first CFD book too. It's easy, short, concise and correct. It doesn't have extensive coverage or any advanced topic like most of recent CFD book get. But the way it shines is that the author (one of the founders of recent CFD field) spent that much time discussing how to discritizing and evaluating the simplest form of commonly used pde eqations and boundary conditions. No advanced math involved, it's all simple algebra. Everytime when I start a new problem and write down the discritized eqation, I double checked it using what I learned from the book before I input it into the computer. It just worked. There's no magic in CFD, but this book is like a magic to me.

If you want to code heat/mass transfer/fluid flow, buy this

This is extraordinarily well-written for anyone who knows a little bit about heat transfer, mass transfer, or fluid flow and wants to write a mathematical model to perform calculations in 1D, 2D or 3D. (Also works for electromagnetic equations of the same form--used it for my doctoral thesis.) It's very practically oriented, with clear explanations and good diagrams showing how the grid layout translates into code.

Best and most convincing exposition of numerical techniques

This book should be the first one you want to read on numerical modelling of fluid flow and heat transfer. The book is developed in the context of the author's SIMPLER methodology of analyzing incompressible flow but the derived insights from the explanation will be invaluable for any serious computational fluid dynamicist. The single most positive factor about this book is that it's concise and to the point and everything is described from a very physical and tangible perspective.