Spreadsheet fluid dynamics for aeronautical course problems
- Autores: Etsuo Morishita, Yohei Iwata, Kentaro Yuki, Haruhiko Yoshida
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 17, no. 3, 2001, págs. 294-311
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Computational Fluid Dynamics is now used daily in scientific and engineering practices. Thecomputations themselves are now based on commercially available software. Personal computersare widely utilized elsewhere these days and many people are using spreadsheets as well as wordprocessors. It is now well known to the scientific and engineering communities that spreadsheets canbe used, not only for statistics and data processing calculations, but also for matrix inverse,iteration in a finite difference equation, and for special functions of mathematics. This situationallows us to realize SFD, i.e., Spreadsheet Fluid Dynamics. The authors have demonstrated thatthe fluid dynamics equations could be solved efficiently by using a spreadsheet. The cells in thespreadsheet are viewed as either natural grids in CFD or elements of a matrix. The computationaldomain corresponds to the real physical shape and/or the computational space by grid generation.The result can be visualized on the same spreadsheet with inherent graphics. The pre- and post-processors are all in one in SFD.
