Computational Fluid Dynamics: Finite Difference Method and Lattice Boltzmann Method

This book is intended for graduate students who are interested in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The authors write the book combining their ten years teaching experience and research results. It is expected that the book will provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to several basic methods with more attention to their theoretical basis and applications in fluid dynamics. Furthermore, some new ideas are presented in this book, for example, a method to solve the transition matrix by difference operator transformation. For this method, the book gives the definition of Fourier integral transformation of translation operator, and proves the transition matrix equaling to the differential operator transformation, so that it is extended to general situations of explicit, implicit, multi-layer difference equations and etc. This flexible approach is also used in the differential part. In addition, the book also includes six types of equivalent stability definitions in two ways and deeply analyzes their errors, stabilities and convergences of the difference equations. What is more important, some new scientific contributions on LBM in recent years are presented in the book as well. Authors list some new research achievements, and expect that this new information could give readers possible further investigating ideas in their future researches on CFD area.