[zen3gr]

Hello, everyone!

I'm a mechanical engineer graduate, trying to learn the very basics of CFD before starting to pursue a Msc or PhD (since my diploma is recognized as an intergrated Master).
I'm one chapter away from completing the 1995 CFD book by John D. Anderson. I could say that it has been a great help to me; I've managed to code most of the cases described there in matlab and get a solid understanding of the principles behind finite difference schemes.
What I would like to ask you now is about the book I should study next. My goal for the future months is to get some insight on the finite volume method and the different turbulence models (it would be ideal if the book had also some information or radiation modelling as I would like to deal with solar thermal power generation later with the aid of CFD). I've come to this target as I've read that FVM is the most popular opinion for discretizing the governing equations (followed by FEM and then FiniteDiffrence, although I think it'a matter of preference for some cases) and the turbulence models are important no matter what.
My current choices that I've gathered from answers here and there are:
-An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamicsby W. VERSTEEG,H., MALALASEKRA
-Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics by Joel H. Ferziger (Author), Milovan Perić (Author), Robert L. Street (Author).

What's your opinion? Would any of these books help with my progress of understanding the CFD methods and get some practise of code writing?
If that helps, I have found the writing of Mr. Anderson extremely helpful and not boring at all.

Finally, at what point should I try to experiment with ANSYS for solving cases? I've chosen to write my own code for simple cases only to get a firm grasp of the underlying mathematics, I'm not expecting to be able to have so much time every time to write the equations and for loops for each problem.

Thanks in advance for your time!

[FMDenaro]

Originally Posted by zen3gr

Hello, everyone!

I'm a mechanical engineer graduate, trying to learn the very basics of CFD before starting to pursue a Msc or PhD (since my diploma is recognized as an intergrated Master).
I'm one chapter away from completing the 1995 CFD book by John D. Anderson. I could say that it has been a great help to me; I've managed to code most of the cases described there in matlab and get a solid understanding of the principles behind finite difference schemes.
What I would like to ask you now is about the book I should study next. My goal for the future months is to get some insight on the finite volume method and the different turbulence models (it would be ideal if the book had also some information or radiation modelling as I would like to deal with solar thermal power generation later with the aid of CFD). I've come to this target as I've read that FVM is the most popular opinion for discretizing the governing equations (followed by FEM and then FiniteDiffrence, although I think it'a matter of preference for some cases) and the turbulence models are important no matter what.
My current choices that I've gathered from answers here and there are:
-An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamicsby W. VERSTEEG,H., MALALASEKRA
-Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics by Joel H. Ferziger (Author), Milovan Perić (Author), Robert L. Street (Author).

What's your opinion? Would any of these books help with my progress of understanding the CFD methods and get some practise of code writing?
If that helps, I have found the writing of Mr. Anderson extremely helpful and not boring at all.

Finally, at what point should I try to experiment with ANSYS for solving cases? I've chosen to write my own code for simple cases only to get a firm grasp of the underlying mathematics, I'm not expecting to be able to have so much time every time to write the equations and for loops for each problem.

Thanks in advance for your time!

Both textbooks you addressed are good for approaching the FVM. I can add further suggestions:


- The Finite Volume Method in CFD by F.Moukalled et al.

- Computational Fluid Dynamics: principles and applications by Blazek


On a different ground, focused on FVM for hyperbolic equations, you can read Leveque. But it does not focus on turbulence.

[zen3gr]

Originally Posted by FMDenaro

Both textbooks you addressed are good for approaching the FVM. I can add further suggestions:


- The Finite Volume Method in CFD by F.Moukalled et al.

- Computational Fluid Dynamics: principles and applications by Blazek


On a different ground, focused on FVM for hyperbolic equations, you can read Leveque. But it does not focus on turbulence.

Thanks very much for the quick response.
Do you happen to know if any of them (including the ones of my original post) gives specific problems with results to compare with my computational solutions, like the 1995 Anderson book?

[FMDenaro]

Originally Posted by zen3gr

Thanks very much for the quick response.
Do you happen to know if any of them (including the ones of my original post) gives specific problems with results to compare with my computational solutions, like the 1995 Anderson book?

Generally, all the basic CFD textbooks adopts similar test problem like solution of linear advection and diffusion equations (hyperbolic/parabolic PDE) and equilibrium equations (elliptic PDE).
Then the test-case for the NSE equations are quite similar, Taylor vortex solution, lid-driven cavity, backward facing step.
The first book I addressed focus on OpenFOAM and Matlab.