Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Committees -- PART I. ASTROPHYSICS -- Very High Resolution Simulations of Compressible Turbulent Flows -- Instabilities and Filamentation of Dispersive Alfven Waves -- Astrophysical Jets -- A Nonhydrostatic Meteorological Model (Meso-NH) Applied to High Angular Resolution in Astronomy: 3D Characterization and Forecasting of the Optical Turbulence -- Numerical Simulations of Interplanetary Shock Waves Using ZEUS-3D -- Photoionizing Shocks in the Interstellar Medium -- Numerical Simulation of the Interaction between Jets and Supernova Remnants -- Thermal Instability in a Turbulent Medium -- Turbulent Dissipation in the Interstellar Medium in the Presence of Discrete Energy Sources -- The Density Probability Distribution Function in Turbulent Isothermal Magnetized Flows in a Slab Geometry -- Multifractal Structure in Simulations and Observations of the Interstellar Medium -- PART II. GEOPHYSICS -- Stratiform Low Clouds: Phenomenology and Large Eddy Simulations -- On the Modeling of Deep Convective Clouds over Mexico City -- Spectral Structure of Growing Normal Modes for Exact Solutions to the Barotropic Vorticity Equation on a Sphere -- PART III. NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS -- Distributed Parallel Simulation of Surface Tension Driven Viscous Flow and Transport Processes -- Considerations for Scalable CFD on the SGI ccNUMA Architecture -- Parallelization of a Two-Way Interactive Grid Nesting Atmospheric Model -- Natural Convection in a Cubical Porous Cavity: Solution by Orthogonal Collocation -- Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear DIA Equations and Calculation of Turbulent Diffusivities -- PART IV. APPLICATIONS -- From Stars to Volcanoes: The SPH Story -- A Parallel Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Large Scale Simulations of Complex Fluids -- Natural Convection in a Slender Container.

Effect on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer of Dephasing between Plates in Wavy Plate Passages -- Analysis of the Numerical Simulation of the Filling System Used in Production of Aluminum Pistons -- Isotherms in a Solid with a Tilted Fracture and their Effects on the Local Fluid Motion -- Basic Numerical Simulations in Kaluza's Magnetohydrodynamics -- Understanding Dilute Gases: Going beyond the Navier-Stokes Equations.

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics. The topics range from fundamentals and computational techniques to a wide variety of applications in astronomy, applied mathematics, meteorology, etc. They describe recent calculations in direct numerical simulation of turbulence, applications of turbulence modeling of pollution problems in mesoscale meteorology, industrial applications, etc. The emerging topic of parallelization of CFD codes is also presented. This volume will appeal to graduate students, researchers and anyone interested in using digital computation as a powerful tool for solving fluid dynamics problems in science and technology. Contents: Astrophysics: Very High Resolution Simulations of Compressible, Turbulent Flows (P R Woodward et al.); Astrophysical Jets (A C Raga et al.); Photoionizing Shocks in the Interstellar Medium (S J Arthur); Thermal Instability in a Turbulent Medium (A Gazol et al.); Geophysics: Stratiform Low Clouds: Phenomenology and Large Eddy Simulations (D K Lilly); On the Modeling of Deep Convective Clouds over Mexico City (G B Raga & J Morfin); Spectral Structure of Growing Normal Modes for Exact Solutions to the Barotropic Vorticity Equation on a Sphere (Y N Skiba & A Y Strelkov); Numerical and Computational Aspests: Distributed Parallel Simulation of Surface Tension Driven Viscous Flow and Transport Processes (G F Carey et al.); Parallelization of a Two-Way Interactive Grid Nesting Atmospheric Model (P Jabouille); Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear DIA Equations and Calculation of Turbulent Diffusivities (N A Silant'ev); Applications: From Stars to Volcanoes: The SPH Story (J J Monaghan); Natural Convection in a Slender Container (L M de la Cruz & E Ramos); Isotherms in a Solid with a Tilted Fracture and their Effects on the Local Fluid Motion (A Medina et al.); and other papers.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in computational fluid mechanics.

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