Dear all,

Could you tell me if there are good books about unstructured grid finite volume approaches ? What are the major differences between a structured grid and an unstructured grid CFD solver ?

Thanks in advance for your comments!

Li Yang

There are few text books explain unstrucured grid methodology in detail, as I know. I think that you had better read some related theses for your concerns or some journal papers. See the web page of CFD research lab at University of michigan, Missisipi state univ.,University of texas at austin, and so on.

Good luck

http://www.flow3d.com/Default.htm?CFD-101/cfd101.htm&1

read this.. this explains very basics of grid systems.

J-

Dear Choi,

Thanks for your reply. Can you recommend a few theses related to this issue ?

Regards

Li

Thanks, I feel I need something more systematic. For example, how to evaluate the fluxes and arrange the order of the cells in an unstructured grid solver.

Regards

Li

hi look at cfdrincples and applications by J.Blazek

a new good book for beginers.. senthil

I agree with senthil.

Chapters on Dr. Blazek's book explains how to sum up flux, edge-based method, etc. nicely.

Dr. T. Barth home page has a link to his must-read VKI-lecture-note. Here's the link: http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~barth/home.html

Dr. Lohner's 'Applied CFD Techniques' is also very very good if you want to improve your data structure and so on. His home page link is http://www.science.gmu.edu/~rlohner/

QKim

newbies: J. Blazek. Computational fluid dynamics principles and applications. Elsevier

more advance: P. Wesseling. Principles of computational fluid dynamics. Springer Verlag. (Excellent book)

See also the Publications by Timothy J. Barth

Thank you, Qkim, senthil and Sebastien Perron. That's very helpful.

With best wishes

Li