From: aroberts@usq.edu.au (Tony Roberts) Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics Subject: Re: Seeking info on history of CFD Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:12:46 +1000 In article <01HW.B1D959B10000ED9D0955AC60@news1.radix.net>, "William T. Bridgman" wrote: > I'm seeking information on the history of the development of computational > fluid dynamics, particularly issues dealing with how some of the 'classic' > really hard problems were solved or are still being attacked: > > * turbulence and other non-linearities > * what could be done analytically > * applications: weather prediction, aircraft design, automotive design, etc. > * what mathematical/computation techniques were needed > * what problems really couldn't be done before the advent of modern computers, > Some of the early work on CFD by Richardson is described in the lead article of the latest Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol 30 (I think). Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor A.J. Roberts Dept of Mathematics & Computing E-mail: aroberts@usq.edu.au University of Southern Queensland Phone: (076) 312943 Toowoomba, Queensland 4350 Fax: (076) 312721 AUSTRALIA WWW: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au /pub/MC/staff/robertsa/home.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================================== From: jep@taews4.ctd.ornl.gov (Park James E) Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics Subject: Re: Seeking info on history of CFD Followup-To: sci.math.num-analysis,sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics William T. Bridgman (wtbridgman@radix.net) wrote: : I'm seeking information on the history of the development of computational : fluid dynamics, particularly issues dealing with how some of the 'classic' : really hard problems were solved or are still being attacked: : * turbulence and other non-linearities : * what could be done analytically : * applications: weather prediction, aircraft design, automotive design, etc. : * what mathematical/computation techniques were needed : * what problems really couldn't be done before the advent of modern : * computers, : etc. : Is there a textbook or web site with this kind of info? : Thanks, : Tom Check the Los Alamos National Lab's T-3 home page, http://gnarly.lanl.gov/home.html This is a link to a long history by Norman Johnson of LANL CFD work. Note that from the 40's through the early 60's, CFD was mostly done at LANL (my biased opinion) because they ALWAYS had the newest, fastest computers. Frank Harlow (who is I believe still active) and Tony Hirt (now president of Flow Science, Inc), and others, developed PIC, MAC, ICE, ALE, DOC methods, with lots of offshoots. Hope this helps, ********************************************************************** James E. Park, PhD, PE Voice: 423/574-8668 Senior Development Staff FAX: 423/576-0003 Computational Physics & Engineering e-mail: jep@ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.cad.ornl.gov/bio/jep.html PO Box 2008 - MS 6415 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6415 ********************************************************************** ==============================================================================