This guide to computational fluid mechanics introduces beginning graduate students to the subject's standard methods and common pitfalls.

E. J. Hinch has been a teacher and researcher in fluid mechanics and applied mathematics at the University of Cambridge for over 45 years. He is the author of Perturbation Methods (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and has been awarded the Fluid Dynamics prizes of the European Mechanics Society and the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Part I. A first problem: 1. The driven cavity; 2. Streamfunction-vorticity formulation; 3. Primitive variable formulation; Part II. Generalities: 4. Finite differences; 5. Finite elements; 6.Spectral methods; 7. Time integration; 8. Linear Algebra; Part III. Special topics: 9. Software packages and FreeFem++; 10. Hyperbolic equations; 11. Representation of surfaces; 12. Boundary integral method; 13. Fast Poisson solvers; 14. Fast Multipole Method; 15. Nonlinear considerations; 16. Particle methods; 17. Wavelets; Index.