Some online introductions to CFD

1,Using Computational Fluid Dynamics.http://www.topajka-shaw.co.nz/UCFD.htm. An introductory CFD book by C. T. Shaw. Available in full text directly online. Or you can download it locally. Recommend to read Chapter 5 & 6. The book is a bit old (written in 1992).

2, CFD-Wiki Introduction to CFD. http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Introduction_to_CFD. A growing section of CFD-Wiki covering the basics of what CFD is.

3, Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, by CHAM. http://www.cham.co.uk/website/new/cfdintro.htm. A nice introduction to CFD by CHAM - the makers of the CFD code Phoenics. Gives a brief overview of what CFD is, what it can be used for and when it can be be trusted. The page ends with some promotion of their codes.

4. First cell height calculation (y1+). http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/First_cell_height_calculation

5, Literature on Mesh Generation. http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~roberts/literature.html.

6, Meshing on CFD Wiki. http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/Meshing.

CFD forums & DATA bases

1, Forums for Fluent(Gambit), CFX, Star-CD, etc: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forum/

2, ERCOFTAC (European Research Community On Flow, Turbulence And Combustion). http://www.ercoftac.org/

3, QNET -CFD (Knowledge Base, Quality and Trust in the Industrial Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics). http://eddie.mech.surrey.ac.uk/

4, OpenFoam (an OPEN CFD package). http://openfoam.cfd-online.com/cgi-bin/forum/discus.cgi.

Updated: 08-Oct-2008