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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480764403321

Autore

Fletcher Clive A.J

Titolo

Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics 1 [[electronic resource] ] : Fundamental and General Techniques / / by Clive A.J. Fletcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998

ISBN

3-642-58229-X

Edizione

[2nd ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 401 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

Scientific Computation, , 1434-8322

Disciplina

532.050151

Soggetti

Continuum physics

Fluids

Physics

Computer mathematics

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Fluid mechanics

Classical and Continuum Physics

Fluid- and Aerodynamics

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Computational Science and Engineering

Mathematical and Computational Engineering

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction -- 1.1 Advantages of Computational Fluid Dynamics -- 1.2 Typical Practical Problems -- 1.3 Equation Structure -- 1.4 Overview of Computational Fluid Dynamics -- 1.5 Further Reading -- 2. Partial Differential Equations -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations -- 2.3 Parabolic Partial Differential Equations -- 2.4 Elliptic Partial Differential Equations -- 2.5 Traditional Solution Methods -- 2.6 Closure -- 2.7 Problems -- 3. Preliminary Computational Techniques -- 3.1



Discretisation -- 3.2 Approximation to Derivatives -- 3.3 Accuracy of the Discretisation Process -- 3.4 Wave Representation -- 3.5 Finite Difference Method -- 3.6 Closure -- 3.7 Problems -- 4. Theoretical Background -- 4.1 Convergence -- 4.2 Consistency -- 4.3 Stability -- 4.4 Solution Accuracy -- 4.5 Computational Efficiency -- 4.6 Closure -- 4.7 Problems -- 5. Weighted Residual Methods -- 5.1 General Formulation -- 5.2 Finite Volume Method -- 5.3 Finite Element Method and Interpolation -- 5.4 Finite Element Method and the Sturm-Liouville Equation -- 5.5 Further Applications of the Finite Element Method -- 5.6 Spectral Method -- 5.7 Closure -- 5.8 Problems -- 6. Steady Problems -- 6.1 Nonlinear Steady Problems -- 6.2 Direct Methods for Linear Systems -- 6.3 Iterative Methods -- 6.4 Pseudotransient Method -- 6.5 Strategies for Steady Problems -- 6.6 Closure -- 6.7 Problems -- 7. One-Dimensional Diffusion Equation -- 7.1 Explicit Methods -- 7.2 Implicit Methods -- 7.3 Boundary and Initial Conditions -- 7.4 Method of Lines -- 7.5 Closure -- 7.6 Problems -- 8. Multidimensional Diffusion Equation -- 8.1 Two-Dimensional Diffusion Equation -- 8.2 Multidimensional Splitting Methods -- 8.3 Splitting Schemes and the Finite Element Method -- 8.4 Neumann Boundary Conditions -- 8.5 Method of Fractional Steps -- 8.6 Closure -- 8.7 Problems -- 9. Linear Convection-Dominated Problems -- 9.1 One-Dimensional Linear Convection Equation -- 9.2 Numerical Dissipation and Dispersion -- 9.3 Steady Convection-Diffusion Equation -- 9.4 One-Dimensional Transport Equation -- 9.5 Two-Dimensional Transport Equation -- 9.6 Closure -- 9.7 Problems -- 10. Nonlinear Convection-Dominated Problems -- 10.1 One-Dimensional Burgers’ Equation -- 10.2 Systems of Equations -- 10.3 Group Finite Element Method -- 10.4 Two-Dimensional Burgers’ Equation -- 10.5 Closure -- 10.6 Problems -- Appendix A.1 Empirical Determination of the Execution Time of Basic Operations -- A.2 Mass and Difference Operators -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This well-known 2-volume textbook provides senior undergraduate and postgraduate engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians with the specific techniques, and the framework to develop skills in using the techniques in the various branches of computational fluid dynamics. A solutions manual to the exercises is in preparation.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781608703321

Titolo

Empires of the imagination [[electronic resource] ] : transatlantic histories of the Louisiana Purchase / / edited by Peter J. Kastor and Franco̧is Weil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

1-280-49063-2

9786613585868

0-8139-2817-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Jeffersonian America

Altri autori (Persone)

KastorPeter J

WeilFrançois

Disciplina

973.4/6

Soggetti

Louisiana Purchase

National characteristics, American

United States Relations France

France Relations United States

United States Territorial expansion History 19th century

United States Social conditions 19th century

United States Civilization French influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Prologue: Jefferson, Louisiana, and American nationhood / Peter S. Onuf -- The Louisiana Purchase and the fictions of empire / Richard White -- From incorporation to exclusion: Indians, Europeans, and Americans in the Mississippi Valley from 1699 to 1830 / Cecile Vidal -- The Haitian revolution and the sale of Louisiana; or, Thomas Jefferson's (unpaid) debt to Jean-Jacques Dessalines -- A tornado on the horizon: the Jefferson administration, the retrocession crisis, and the Louisiana Purchase / James E. Lewis Jr.-- The Louisiana Purchase in the demographic perspective of its time / Paul Lachance -- Refracted reformations and the making of republicans / Emily Clark -- Slave migrations and slave control in Spanish and early American New Orleans / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec -- "They are all Frenchmen":



background and nation in an age of transformation / Peter J. Kastor -- Edward Livingston, America, and France: making law / Mark Fernandez -- The purchase and the making of French Louisiana / François Weil -- Celebration and history: the case of the Louisiana Purchase / Jacques Portes and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol.