50 Best Books on Computational Fluid Dynamics

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We have compiled a list of the Best Reference Books on Computational Fluid Dynamics, which are used by students of top universities, and colleges. This will help you choose the right book depending on if you are a beginner or an expert. Here is the complete list of Computational Fluid Dynamics Books with their authors, publishers, and an unbiased review of them as well as links to the Amazon website to directly purchase them. If permissible, you can also download the free PDF books on Computational Fluid Dynamics below.

1. Computational Fluid Dynamics

1."Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows" by Hirsch C
“Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows” Book Review: This Book is designed for undergraduate and graduate level students. This book contains from first principle to further advanced and applied topics. This book is an introduction to computational fluid dynamics. It explains the use of basic computational methods to solve problems in fluid dynamics. This book mainly gives knowledge on Introduction to grids properties and the use of grids in practice. It includes material on 2-D inviscid, potential and Euler flows. It contains 2-D viscous flows, Navier-Stokes flows to enable the reader to develop basic CFD simulation. It will be concerned with the applications of numerical methods to flow problems. Also includes solved examples at the end of every chapter. It helps the students to understand and work-out them. In the end of every chapter it contains different types of problems like multiple choice questions, short questions with answers and review questions.

2."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Anderson J D
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is designed for a wide variety of engineering students. It is for senior undergraduate, graduate students of mechanical, aerospace, civil engineering. This book is written in a unique style that a student can understand the concepts without prior knowledge of CFD. The basics with applications covers all the advanced concepts. It discusses the fundamental philosophy of CFD and governing physical equations. Basics of numerical discretization and few complex concepts with applications. It consists of a consistent theoretical foundation. An integrated structural approach, focusing on the operational and financial aspects. In every chapter it consists of worked-out examples. Lastly it contains exercises like review questions, multiple choice questions.

3."Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer" by Tenehill J C and Pletcher R H
“Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer” Book Review: This book is designed for senior graduate and graduate students for learning and handy reference. The description of the basic concepts and fundamentals is thorough and is crystal clear for understanding. It is an introductory computational fluid dynamic book, especially for computational aerodynamics. It consists of a finite volume method, momentum transfer in fluid flow. Fairly comprehensive coverage of CFD using the finite difference approach. The book contains various simple diagrams and examples, which help with understanding of concepts and numerical schemes. The text would function as a good reference for anyone wanting to implement their own CFD code. There is also a long list of references at the end of the book. This book can be used by applied physics and mechanical engineering students.

4."An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method" by H Versteeg
“An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method” Book Review: This book provides graduate engineers with a reliable tool to assist in the design of industrial experiments. It provides through yet accessible coverage of commercial finite volume based CFD codes within the context of the theory. It gives numerous engineering applications. This book contains diffusion problems, pressure velocity coupling. Methods for dealing with complex geometries, CFD modeling of combustion. It gives knowledge about numerical calculation of radiative heat transfer. It covers fundamentals of Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) techniques. Furthermore it contains examples at the end of every chapter. It contains multiple choice questions, short answer questions.

5."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Gautam Biswas and Somenath Mukherjee
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is related to students and practitioners particularly in mechanical, aerospace, chemical, metallurgy and civil engineers will benefit from this material. They will be able to apply numerical techniques to the solution of a variety of fluid dynamics and heat transfer problems of industrial importance. The basic principles and techniques of finite difference, finite volume and finite element described using detailed mathematical treatment. The chapters followed by the state of the art methods and algorithms. It includes semi implicit pressure linked equations and a cell family of algorithms. These advanced chapters use governing equations, boundary conditions, and initial conditions in CFD. Finally, the modeling of free surface flows has been covered as a special topic.

6."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Tapan Sen Gupta
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is described for senior graduate and graduate engineering students. This book aims to provide a foundation to CFD, which finds application in solving leading edge research problems. It deals with governing equations, discussions on ranges of temporal and spatial scales. It also includes transformations and grid generation. It gives spectral analysis tools developed by the aliasing errors, which is important for DNS/LES. Discussions on higher accuracy finite volume methods and their comparison to finite element methods. Applications of some of the methods highlighting the issues of unsteady and transitional flows are presented. It contains solved examples and exercise at the end of chapters.

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7."Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Pradip Niyogi
“Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is described for advanced level B.Tech, M.Tech and M.Sc students of various sciences and engineering disciplines. This book introduces a new subject which is an amalgamation of classical fluid dynamics and numerical analysis supported by powerful computers. It introduces linear and non-linear problems of fluid flow. It consists of finite difference,finite volume, equations of parabolic type, hyperbolic type, elliptic, mixed ellipticH. Euler equations as also incompressible and compressible viscous flows. It covers grid generation. Simple turbulence modeling has been presented. At the end of all chapters it contains questions and solutions. It has more examples and applications of every concept.

8."Fluid Dynamics: Part 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics" by Anatoly I Ruban and Jitesh S B Gajjar
“Fluid Dynamics: Part 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is described for undergraduate lecture courses. It progressed through more advanced material upto the level of modern research in the field. An introduction to macroscopic functions, the velocity vector, pressure, density and enthalpy. It includes the couette flow between two parallel plates, hagen-poiseuille flow and karman flow. It covers inviscid incompressible flow theory, with particular focus on two-dimensional potential flows. These can be described in terms of the complex potential. It discusses in detail the method of conformal mapping, which is then used to study various flow of interests. It is concerned with compressible flows of perfect gas, including supersonic flows. The chapters conclude with analysis of unsteady flows and including the theory of blast waves.

9."Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach" by Tu
“Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach” Book Review: It is ideal for senior level undergraduate and graduate students of mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, environmental and marine engineering. It can also help beginner users of commercial CFD software tools (including CFX and FLUENT). It includes discretisation via finite element and spectral elements as well as finite difference and finite volume methods and multigrid method. It covers different approaches to CFD grid generation in order to closely match how CFD meshing is being used in industry. High-pressure fluid dynamics and meshless approach to provide a border overview of the application areas where CFD can be used. This book combines an appropriate level of mathematical background and worked examples.

10."Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach" by Jiyuan Tu
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book gives an introduction to CFD fundamentals which focuses on the use of commercial CFD software to solve engineering problems. It contains topics like CFD techniques including discretisation via finite element and spectral element, finite difference, finite volume methods, multigrid method, high-pressure fluid dynamics and meshless approach to provide a broader overview of the application areas where CFD can be used. It is a guide for senior level undergraduate and graduate students of mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, environmental and marine engineering and also useful for commercial CFD software tools as it include mathematical background, worked examples, computer screen shots, and step-by-step processes, walking students through modeling and computing as well as interpretation of CFD results.

11."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Frederic Magoules
12."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by T J Chung
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book is designed for the undergraduate students of mechanical engineering, researchers and scientists. It provides the practical applications of turbulence, combustion and radiative heat transfer. It also explains about acoustics, multiphase flow and electromagnetic flow. It focuses on the flowfield-dependent variation methods. It also provides the assignments, solved examples, and questions with answers at the end of the chapter. The main aim of this book is to provide the information of fluid dynamics methods.


2. Advanced CFD

1."Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows" by Hirsch C
“Numerical Computation of Internal and External Flows” Book Review: This book is an introduction to computational fluid dynamics. The chapters covered are the basic equations of fluid dynamics, the dynamics levels of approximation, the finite difference method for structured grids. Other topics covered are finite volume method, structured and unstructured grid properties, consistency, stability, and error analysis of numerical schemes. Problems and conclusions are provided at the end of every chapter. Equations and diagrams are described in a detailed manner. This book can be used by applied mathematics and physics students.

2."Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws" by Leveque R J
“Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws” Book Review: This book is an overview of how a numerical method for conservation law is developed. The main topics covered are the derivation of conservation laws, scalar conservation laws, some scalar examples, some nonlinear systems and linear hyperbolic systems. Other chapters included are shocks and the hugoniot locus, refraction waves and integral curves, the Riemann problem for the Euler equations and computing discontinuous solutions. Exercises and references are provided at the end of the chapter. This book is suitable for applied physics students.

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3."CFD Module (Multiphysics Modeling)" by Mehrzad Tabatabaian
“CFD Module (Multiphysics Modelling)” Book Review: This book provides an overview of Multiphysics modelling. The chapters included are introduction to multiphysics modelling, multiphysics modelling of fluid flow systems, multiphysics modelling of thermal environments and interactions in systems. Other topics covered are thermochemical modelling of material and components, multiphysics modelling of energy systems and issues. This book contains a large number of images and equations labelled in detail. This book can be used by applied physics and mechanical engineering students.

4."Advances in Steam Turbines for Modern Power Plants" by Tadashi Tanuma
“Advances in Steam Turbines for Modern Power Plants” Book Review: This book discusses the steam turbine technology. The major chapters discussed are introduction to steam turbines for power plants, steam turbine cycles and design optimization, steam turbine life cycle cost evaluations and comparison with other power plants. Other chapters included are design and analysis for aerodynamics efficiency enhancement of steam turbines, rotor design, rotor dynamics analysis and highly efficient partial operation. Conclusion and references are provided at the end of the chapter for reviewing. This book is suitable for mechanical engineering and diploma students.

5."Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing" by Anwar Osseyran and Merle Giles
“Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing” Book Review: This book provides an overview of high-performance computing for industrial applications. Main chapters involved are history of supercomputing, country strategic overview of supercomputing, industrial applications on supercomputing in Finland, France, Germany. Other chapters included are the high performance computing business case in the petroleum sector, porsche: an industrial use case. A total of 25 chapters are included in this book. Images and use case studies are provided for students’ understanding. This book can be used by automobile engineering students.

6."Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines: Modeling and Numerical Simulations" by Zhen-Guo Wang
“Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines: Modelling and Numerical Simulations” Book Review: This book provides the information on modelling and numerical simulations of combustion in liquid rocket engines. Chapters included are physical mechanism and numerical modelling of liquid propellant atomization, modelling of droplet evaporation and combustion. Other chapters included are modelling of turbulence, turbulent combustion model, heat transfer modelling and simulation. Examples and figures are provided in every chapter. This book can be used by aerospace and aerodynamics students.

7."Spectral/hp Element Methods for CFD (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)" by George Em Karniadakis and Spencer J Sherwin
“Spectral/hp Element Methods for CFD (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)” Book Review: This book includes different methods and approaches of CFD. The methods included in this book are complex geometries, spectral/hp element method, multi-domain spectral method and high-order finite element. Methods and techniques are discussed in detail. This book can be used by applied mathematics and physics students.

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8."Computational Science and High Performance Computing II" by Egon Krause and Yurii I Shokin
“Computational Science and High-Performance Computing II” Book Review: This book provides computational techniques on high performance computing technologies. The main chapters included are breakdown of compressible slender vortices, industrial and scientific framework for computational science and engineering, parallel numerical modelling and gas dynamic processes in airbag combustion chamber. Other chapters included are navier-stokes auxiliary equations, robustness and efficiency aspects for computational fluid structure interaction. A total of 27 chapters are included in this book. This book can be referred to by applied physics and aerospace engineering students.

9."22nd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering)" by David Bogle and Michael Fairweather
“22nd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering)” Book Review: This book describes the importance of computer aided process engineering. The main chapters included are sustainable CAPE-education and careers for chemical engineers, process synthesis and design in industrial practice, process software in the chemical industry. Other chapters added are adaptivity in process systems modelling, plant wide control, decision confidence and property integration. Programs and examples are provided in detail. This book can be used by chemical engineering students.

10."Computational Fluid Dynamics with Moving Boundaries (Dover Books on Engineering)" by Wei Shyy and H S Udaykumar
“Computational Fluid Dynamics with Moving Boundaries (Dover Books on Engineering)” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduates and undergraduates who are pursuing mechanical engineering. It is also useful for the professionals and teachers. Research students can also use this book. This book describes several computational techniques that can be applied to a variety of problems in thermo-fluid physics, multiphase flow, and applied mechanics involving moving flow boundaries. Step-by-step discussions of numerical procedures include multiple examples that employ algorithms in problem-solving. This book discusses formulation and computation strategies as well as applications in many fields.

11."Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications" by Jiri Blazek
“Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications” Book Review: This book has been designed for graduates and undergraduates who are pursuing mechanical engineering. It is also useful for the professionals and teachers. Research students can also use this book. This book presents students, engineers, and scientists with all they need to gain a solid understanding of the numerical methods and principles underlying modern computation techniques in fluid dynamics. By providing complete coverage of the essential knowledge required in order to write codes or understand commercial codes, the book gives the reader an overview of fundamentals and solution strategies in the early chapters before moving on to cover the details of different solution techniques. They then demonstrate how to interpret and apply the results to improve fidelity and performance.

12."Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics: A Solutions Manual (Scientific Computation)" by Karkenahalli Srinivas and Clive A J Fletcher


3. Advance Computational Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics

1."Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Advanced Structured Materials)" by Mokhtar Awang and Ku Zilati Ku Shaari
“Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Advanced Structured Materials)” Book Review: This book is designed for researchers and engineers who wish to apply CFD techniques to ocean modeling and practical coastal problems involving sediment transport, wave-structure interaction and surf zone flows. It includes explanations of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows. It also includes detailed examination of the components needed for the development of a collocated unstructured pressure-based CFD solver. Later it focuses on uFVM, a three-dimensional unstructured pressure-based finite volume academic CFD code, implemented within Matlab. It contains 220 figures, numerous examples and more than one hundred exercises on FVM numerics, programming, and applications.

2."The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)" by L Mangani and F Moukalled
“The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)” Book Review: This book is designed as a reference for CFD programmers and researchers. The book explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It includes explanations of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows. It also includes detailed examination of the components needed for the development of a collocated unstructured pressure-based CFD solver. Later it focuses on uFVM, a three-dimensional unstructured pressure-based finite volume academic CFD code, implemented within Matlab. It contains 220 figures, numerous examples and more than one hundred exercises on FVM numerics, programming, and applications.

3."Advanced Computational Fluid and Aerodynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series)" by Paul G Tucker
“Advanced Computational Fluid and Aerodynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series)” Book Review : This book is designed for undergraduates, researchers and industrial practitioners. It covers fluid dynamics (CFD) to the forefront as a tool to analyze increasingly complex simulation scenarios in many fields. Computational aerodynamics problems are also increasingly moving towards being coupled, multi-physics and multi-scale with complex, moving geometries. This book explains the evolution of CFD and provides a comprehensive overview of the plethora of tools and methods available for solving complex scenarios while exploring the future directions and possible outcomes. Using numerous examples, illustrations and computational methods the author discusses turbulence modeling, pre and post processing, coupled solutions, the importance of design optimization, multiphysics problems, reduced order models, and large scale computations and the future of CFD.

4."Understanding Viscoelasticity: Basics of Rheology (Advanced Texts in Physics)" by Nhan Phan-Thien
“Understanding Viscoelasticity: Basics of Rheology (Advanced Texts in Physics)” Book Review: This book is designed as a reference for CFD programmers and researchers. The book explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It includes explanations of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows.It covers the necessary background for understanding viscoelasticity. Both the continuum and microstructure approaches to modelling viscoelastic materials are discussed. Using numerous examples, illustrations and computational methods the author discusses turbulence modeling, pre and post processing, coupled solutions.

5."Management of Complex Multi-reservoir Water Distribution Systems using Advanced Control Theoretic Tools and Techniques (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)" by Wojciech Chmielowski
“Management of Complex Multi-reservoir Water Distribution Systems using Advanced Control Theoretic Tools and Techniques (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduates, researchers and industrial practitioners. It covers fluid dynamics (CFD) to the forefront as a tool to analyze increasingly complex simulation scenarios in many fields. The book discusses issues of optimal water management in a complex distribution system. The main elements of the water-management system under consideration are retention reservoirs. And also among which water transfers are possible, and a network of connections between these reservoirs and water treatment plants (WTPs).Later it focuses on Pontryagin’s maximum principle with reference to the quality coefficient assumed.

6."An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method Approach" by H Versteeg and W Malalasekera
“An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume Method Approach” Book Review: This book is designed as a reference for CFD programmers and researchers. The book explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It includes explanations of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows. It also includes detailed examination of the components needed for the development of a collocated unstructured pressure-based CFD solver. Later it focuses on uFVM, a three-dimensional unstructured pressure-based finite volume academic CFD code, implemented within Matlab. It contains 220 figures, numerous examples and more than one hundred exercises on FVM numerics, programming, and applications.

7."Computational Wave Dynamics (Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering)" by Hitoshi Gotoh and Akio Okayasu
“Computational Wave Dynamics (Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering)” Book Review: This book is designed for researchers and engineers who wish to apply CFD techniques to ocean modeling and practical coastal problems involving sediment transport, wave-structure interaction and surf zone flows. This book provides a comprehensive description of the latest theory-supported numerical technologies, as well as scientific and engineering applications for water surface waves. Its contents are crafted to cater to a step-by-step learning of computational wave dynamics and ocean wave modeling. It provides a comprehensive description from underlying theories of free-surface flows, to practical computational applications for coastal and ocean engineering on the basis of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

8."Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics" by Joel H Ferziger and Milovan Peric
“Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics” Book Review : This book is designed for researchers and engineers who wish to apply CFD techniques to ocean modeling and practical coastal problems involving sediment transport, wave-structure interaction and surf zone flows. It includes explanations of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows. It also includes detailed examination of the components needed for the development of a collocated unstructured pressure-based CFD solver. Later it focuses on uFVM, a three-dimensional unstructured pressure-based finite volume academic CFD code, implemented within Matlab. It contains 220 figures, numerous examples and more than one hundred exercises on FVM numerics, programming, and applications.

9."The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design: Chemistry, Components, Types and Terminology" by John T Warner
“The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design: Chemistry, Components, Types and Terminology” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduates, researchers and industrial practitioners.Also for electrical engineer, mechanical engineer or a chemist. It explains simple battery scaling calculations in an easy to understand description of the formulas. It describes clearly the various components of a Li-ion battery and their importance. It explains the differences between various Li-ion cell types and chemistries and enables the determination which chemistry and cell type is appropriate for which application. The book is immensely useful to beginning and experienced engineers alike who are moving into the battery field.

10."Computational Fluid Dynamics" by imusti
“Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book may be helpful to applied scientific fields, industries and the research workers working in the field of computational magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) heat and mass transfer flows in porous media. This book comprises the basic concepts and foundation needed for the fluid flow and various numerical techniques commonly used for the solution of highly nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations. The book also contains the physical model of some Industrial problems related to steady and unsteady magneto-hydrodynamic flows, flow of fluids in porous media, radiative flow of fluids with temperature dependent fluid properties etc.


4. CFD Applications in Chemical Processing

1."Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Food Processing (SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition)" by C Anandharamakrishnan
“Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Food Processing(SpringerBriefs in Food, Health and Nutrition)” Book Review: This book is designed for use in the food processing sector. The book also discusses the application of it. The application includes predicting the gas flow pattern and particle histories such as temperature, velocity, residence time and impact position during spray drying. The application can also include modeling of ovens to provide information about temperature. The book also discusses the airflow pattern throughout the baking chamber for enhancing heat transfer and in turn final product quality. The book discusses the designing hybrid heating ovens such as microwave-infrared, infrared-electrical or microwave-electrical ovens for rapid baking. This book will also give in detail the strength and weakness of computational fluid dynamics when applied in the food industry.

2."Recent Developments in the Numerics of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws" by Rainer Ansorge and Hester Bijl
“Recent Developments in the Numerics of NonLinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws” Book Review: This book is regarding the presentation given in an Oberwolfach workshop that took place on the topic of the latest developments. The workshop mainly focuses on the methods of high order and on applications in computational fluid dynamics. Modern numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws mostly depend on polynomials of high degree, mostly orthogonal polynomials, on triangular or quadrilateral meshes. Stability becomes an issue because of shock. It requires modern means of filtering like spectral viscosity. So the workshop was conducted mainly to bring researchers working in different fields of mathematics to work more on the research on high-order efficient and robust numerical methods.

3."Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the Chicago Workshop on Adaptive Mesh Refinement Methods" by Timur Linde and Tomasz Plewa
“Adaptive Mesh Refinement-Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the Chicago Workshop on Adaptive Mesh Refinement Methods” Book Review: This book discusses adaptive mesh refinement, its theory and applications. Advanced numerical simulations use adaptive mesh refinement methods which are practiced in engineering and science. AMR method was originally developed for computational fluid dynamics. These methods have grown diversely in the field of astrophysics, climate modeling, combustion, biophysics and many others. The underlying physical models and equations used are different. But the algorithmic and implementation issues facing the practitioners are similar. This book discusses the gap between advance and outstanding issues of AMR across various fields. The book is also a collection of research papers who work in AMR.

4."Renewable Hydrogen Technologies: Production, Purification, Storage, Applications and Safety" by Luis M Gandia and Gurutze Arzamedi
“Renewable Hydrogen Technologies: Production, Purification, Storage, Applications and Safety” Book Review: This book discusses the purification of hydrogen with membrane technology. It also discusses the storage in “solid” form using new hydrides and carbon materials. Hydrogen energy has grown rapidly in the recent years that it has become multidisciplinary. The book also covers topics on power conditioning of water electrolyzers and the integration in the electric grid of renewable hydrogen systems. It also covers the future role of microreactors and micro-process engineering in hydrogen technology. The book discusses the potential of computational fluid dynamics to hydrogen equipment design and the assessment of safety issues. The book also covers a chapter on hydrogen fuel and hydrogen filled internal combustion engines for transport vehicles.

5."Fuel Cell Engineering (Advances in Chemical Engineering Book 41)" by Sundmacher
“Fuel Cell Engineering(Advances in Chemical Engineering 41)” Book Review: This book gives information about the fuel cell engineering. The book gives an idea about a fuel cell which is an electrochemical energy converter. It has very high thermodynamic efficiency factors. The book mainly focuses on quantitative approaches which is based on chemical engineering principles. The reason is to analyze, control and optimize the steady state and dynamic behaviour of low and high temperature fuel cells. This could be applied in mobile and stationary systems. The book contains updates on the research findings with the help of original reviews. The book is also written by leading industry experts and scholars.

6."Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2001, Practice and Theory" by P Wilders and P Fox
“Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2001, Practise and Theory” Book Review: This book is a paper which is presented in ParCFD 2001. ParCFD 2001 is the thirteenth international conference on parallel computational fluid dynamics. The book discusses the traditional areas of the ParCFD conferences such as numerical schemes and algorithms. It includes tools and environments, interdisciplinary topics, industrial applications. It also discusses local interests, environmental and medical issues. The book gives an update on the state of the art in parallel computational fluid dynamics.

7."Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics" by Hester Bijl and Didier Lucor
“Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics” Book Review: This book discusses fluid flows which is characterized by uncertain inputs like random initial data, boundary conditions, and material and flux coefficient. It addresses the issue of efficiently computing the flow uncertainty under the given initial randomness. It collects seven original review articles which covered improved versions of the Monte Carlo method, moment based stochastic Galerkin methods. It also details modified versions of the stochastic collocation methods that can be used for adaptive stencil selection of the ENO-WENO type in both physical and stochastic space. It provides numerical examples as evidence on the suitability of each proposed method along with comparisons of different approaches.


5. CFD in Manufacturing Processes

1."Investigation of Pool Fire by Using of Cfd Modeling" by Shahi Aref
“Investigation of Pool Fire by Using CFD Modelling” Book Review: This book discusses the pool fire. Pool fire is caused by liquid fuel when it is stored and transported due to their flammability. The fuels include gasoline and kerosene which are used in the transport bureau. It also contains peroxides which are flammable materials and used in chemical and petrochemical industries. Companies and HSE engineers are concerned with the risk of accidental release of these flammable materials and pool fire. The book gives information on how to avoid these hazards. Several experimental studies and CFD simulations of pool fire were conducted. It was conducted on hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline and kerosene and peroxide such as TBPB(tert-butyl-peroxybenzoate). Those were conducted to measure, calculate and develop effective methods of protecting and safety distances.

2."Cfd of the AP-Steam Reforming of Glycerol in Optimizing Hydrogen Gas" by Tan Song Wee Andy and Sai Hoe Chua
“CFD of the AP-Steam Reforming of Glycerol in Optimizing Hydrogen Gas” Book Review: This book discusses the optimum mass fraction hydrogen gas. This gas is produced during the reaction of glycerol and steam at a temperature of 483K and 498K with pressure 29.4 Bar along with the help of selected catalysts like Pt-TiO2 Pt-ZnO Pt-Sio2 and Pt-C. The velocity vector pattern for velocity magnitude can be envisioned with the help of determining the optimum mass fraction hydrogen gas. It can also visualize the static pressure with contour wall shear stress. Incompressible Newtonian fluid is due to the reaction of glycerol and steam flowing through the catalysts which is also non-viscous when compared to glycerol. A software FLUENT 6.2.16 was used for the optimization of mass fraction hydrogen gas. The three dimension catalyst model was stimulated using his software.

3."Cfd Simulation of Oilfield Separators" by Ali Pourahmadi Laleh and Professor William Y Svrcek
“CFD Simulation of Oilfield Separators” Book Review: In any chemical process, multiphase separators are the most common one. They are considered as the first process equipment in producing oil. Its efficiency has influenced the productivity of equipment like heaters, compressors, etc. The book discusses the oilfield separators that play an important role in production capacity. The book also gives information regarding a simulation approach which is based on the computational fluid dynamics. The approach will provide high quality visualization. The book discusses a method for estimating the droplet sizes. This method will calculate the separation velocities for different oilfield conditions. The book also discusses the benefits of CFD where it optimizes the design of new separators. The book contains problem solving questions and diagrams.

4."Cfd Studies in Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena" by Alfredo Guardo
“Cfd Studies in Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena” Book Review: This book is regarding the heat and mass transfer phenomena in CFD. The book discusses that a good understanding of heat and mass transfer phenomena in porous media is important to chemical engineering systems. The systems can be packed bed extraction or catalytic reaction equipment. Porous media is generally an effectively homogeneous system. It can also be described as neglecting the complexities of the flow. This flow is regarded as an important factor that influences the physical process. CFD helps in getting a more visualized view of the fluid flow. It also visualized the transport mechanisms in supercritical packed bed equipment. This book discusses the CFD that is used for fluid flow and heat and mass transfer phenomena. It also develops a strategy that can be applied in designing the heterogeneous reaction.

5."Support Vector Machine Aur Cfd Pipe Injection Flow" by Khokhar Zahid H
“Support Vector Machine Aur CFD Pipe Injection Flow” Book Review: This book discusses the simulations of the waylay experiment and numerical side hot water injection model. Support Vector Machines allow us to generate unique data at thermal contraction. The results obtained can be used to examine, scrutinize, weigh up and assess with a fuzzy logic rule based model. In SVM, the three kernels such as polyhomog, poly and gaussian are given as actors. AI also may help in filtration by optimizing strength and creativity. The book also discusses the efforts needed to obtain cursory design so as to obtain same or similar data without much difficulties.

6."Multiphase Phenomena and CFD Modeling and Simulation in Materials Processes" by Laurentiu Nastac and Ben Q Li
“Multiphase Phenomena and CFD Modeling and Simulation in Materials Processes” Book Review: The book discusses the multiphase phenomena and CFD modelling along with simulation in materials processes. The book is a collection of papers obtained from researchers and engineers that models the multiscale and multiphase phenomena in material processing systems. The papers include gas-particle flows, liquid-liquid phase flows, bubbly driven flows, granular flows and liquid-solid flows. It also includes multiphase flows in external fields, multiscale heat and mass transfer and microstructure formation. It also gives emphasis on CFD modeling and simulation of various engineering processes. It includes metal processes such as forging, casting, welding, heat treating and VAR/ESR/PAM/EBM remelting processes. The book also discusses the applications of CFD. It also discusses the way it will help scientists and engineers understand the fundamentals of engineering processes.

7."Cfd Modeling of Heat Charging Process in a Direct-Contact Container" by Arefeh Hesaraki
“CFD Modeling of Heat Charging Process in a Direct-Contact Container” Book Review: This book discusses the heat charging process in a direct-contact container. In recent years, thermal energy storage and phase change materials have become important. It gives a solution whenever there is a time delay or mismatch when energy is produced and energy is demanded. Mobilized thermal energy storage is initiated to study the space differences between supplier and end user. As a solution, PCM recycles the waste and excess heat by storing in it. The recycle is done with the help of heat transfer fluid. It is also transported by a mobilized container to a consumer. The book also discusses the melting and solidification process.

8."Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers" by Mariano Martín Martín
“Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers” Book Review: This book discusses the idea of using software on chemical engineering. Information technology has changed the field of chemical engineering. So there is a need for the chemical engineering text to demonstrate the real world applicability. This book gives information about mathematical, process modelling and specialized software packages. The book also gives an idea of how to software while solving problems in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, etc. The book also includes case studies on nitric acid production, methanol and ammonia recycle loops. It also discusses how to use certain software for designing operating chemical reactors, cooling towers, etc. The software includes excel, MATLAB, CHEMCAD, etc.

9."Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control, and Efficiency Improvement" by Xingrang Liu and Ramesh Bansal
“Thermal Power Plants: Modeling, Control and Efficiency Improvement” Book Review: This book gives an idea on solving highly complex industry problems. The problems can be identification, control and optimization. It can be solved through integration of conventional technologies. The technologies can be modern control technology, computational intelligence-based multiobjective identification and optimization. The book also gives information on methods that can be utilized in industrial applications. The book discusses how to replicate fossil fuel power plain real time. The text in the book mainly focuses on industry automation in electrical power engineering. But it can also be used by industries such as concrete and steel production.

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