D. G. Roychowdhury is currently working as executive director at the Sharda Group of Institutions, Agra, India. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,, India. Before joining the Sharda Group, he worked as Scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India; as a Research Associate at the University of Warwick, in England; and as Professor and Dean at the Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai, India. His research areas include computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermal-hydraulic analysis of fast reactor core under normal and off-normal events. He has taught courses including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, advanced fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics at undergraduate and graduate level. He has authored several research papers in peer reviewed journals.

1. Overview of CFD. 2. Governing Equations and Classification of PDE. 3. Finite Difference Method - Fundamentals. 4. Finite Difference Methods - Application. 5. Finite Volume Method. 6. Solution of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations. 7. Finite Volume Method for Complex Geometries. 8. Solution of Algebraic Equations. 9. Turbulence Modelling. 10. Grid Generation. 11. Best Practice Guidelines in CFD. Appendix 1. Area and Volume Calculation. Appendix 2. Transformation of Governing Equations to Generalized Curvilinear Coordinates. Appendix 3. Review of Vector Calculus. Appendix 4. Case Studies. References. Index.