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What's the difference between Finite difference(FD), Finite Volume(FV), FEA(Finite element analysis) ?

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Snow

To answer your question, try to read chapter 3 of Shaw, C. T. book "Using Computational Fluid Dynamics", 1992. Its very fundamental book in CFD.

Hafid

hi!, try reading John Andersons Computational Fluid Dynamics or Hypersonic Fluid Flow .Fd is discussed in detail. will tellyou one more book later . Forgot the name. Bye! manishkumar

I think most CFD books will tell you about FD, FV and FEM. Ferziger, J.H., Peric M.: Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, 1996 is a famous CFD book. It also has some simple programs. (no use for practical problems)

I agree Yangang and I advise you to "Ferziger, J.H., Peric M.: Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics, 1996 "

Ali

Thanks for the help!

Hi. The difference is in the way that you discretized the partial differential equation. FD is the Finite Difference Method FV is the Finite Volume Method FEA is the Finite Element Analisys

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Carlos Vilela