A comparative study of five upwind schemes was performed to evaluate their ability accurately model the convective fluxes of the Euler equations for problems containing complex shock structure. The schemes investigated used a variety of Reimann solvers and obtained higher order accuracy using either a MUSCL or non-MUSCL approach. The MUSCL-type schemes included the flux vector split formulations of Steiger-Warming and van Leer and the flux difference split approach of Roe. The Non-MUSCL schemes included the Symmetric and Upwind TVD methods of Yee, and Harten and Yee. Two central difference schemes provide a basis for the evaluation of these upwind methods. The comparison was performed using identical meshes and convergence criteria. In a supersonic blunt body flow, all the upwind schemes displayed comparably resolved bow shocks, independent of free stream Mach number. However, a complex type IV shock on cowl lip example pointed out significant difference in the accuracy and convergence behavior of the schemes. A comparison of the flow structure shown by the various algorithms on identical grids indicated that the discrete solutions obtained with Upwind TVD and Roe flux difference splitting were the least diffusive of the upwind methods considered.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is an important design tool in engineering and also a substantial research tool in various physical sciences as well as in biology. The objective of this book is to provide university students with a solid foundation for understanding the numerical methods employed in today's CFD and to familiarise them with modern CFD codes by hands-on experience. It is also intended for engineers and scientists starting to work in the field of CFD or for those who apply CFD codes. Due to the detailed index, the text can serve as a reference handbook too. Each chapter includes an extensive bibliography, which provides an excellent basis for further studies.

A selection of annotated references to unclassified reports and journal articles that were introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system and announced in Scientific and technical aerospace reports (STAR) and International aerospace abstracts (IAA)

The International Conference on "Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications'' was held in CalTech on March 25-30, 2002. The conference was the ninth meeting in the bi-annual international series which became one of the highest quality and most successful conference series in Applied mathematics. This volume contains more than 90 contributions presented in this conference, including plenary presentations by A. Bressan, P. Degond, R. LeVeque, T.-P. Liu, B. Perthame, C.-W. Shu, B. Sjögreen and S. Ukai. Reflecting the objective of series, the contributions in this volume keep the traditional blend of theory, numerics and applications. The Hyp2002 meeting placed a particular emphasize on fundamental theory and numerical analysis, on multi-scale analysis, modeling and simulations, and on geophysical applications and free boundary problems arising from materials science and multi-component fluid dynamics. The volume should appeal to researchers, students and practitioners with general interest in time-dependent problems governed by hyperbolic equations.