In a book that will be required reading for engineers, physicists, and computer scientists, the editors have collated a number of articles on fluid mechanics, written by some of the world's leading researchers and practitioners in this important subject area.

This volume contains 37 invited contributions, collected to celebrate one hundred volumes of the NNFM Series. After a general introduction overviews are given in five parts of the developments in numerical fluid mechanics and related fields. In the first part information about the series is given, its origins are discussed, as well as its environment and the German and European high-performance computer scene. In Part II the co-editors of the series give short surveys over developments in their countries. Current applications, mainly in the aerospace sector, but also in the automotive sector, are discussed in Part III. Applications to flow problems in engineering and physics, ranging from hydraulic machinery to astrophysics, are the topics of Part IV. Algorithms, computer science, commercial CFD, public partnerships in high-performance computing, and hardware development up to petaflops computers are treated in Part V. All volumes, which were published in the series finally are listed in Part VI.

History and State-of-the-art of computational Fluid Mechanics Celebrating 100 volumes of NNFM and 40 years of Numerical Fluid Mechanics, written by worldwide leading researchers and practitioners Well balanced combination of theoretical and experimental research useful for engineers, physicists, computer scientists and practitioners The evolution of numerical fluid mechanics and aerodynamics

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Both editors were active in the field at universities, DLR, and industry for a long length of time .

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I: The NNFM Series and its Origins.- The NNFM Series.- The Origin of the Series in the GAMM-Committee for Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics.- The Environment of the Series in the Initial Phase.- German and EU High-Performance Computation Centers.- II: Co-Editors Forum: Selected Worldwide Developments.- General Developments of Numerical Fluid Mechanics Until the Middle of the 20th Century.- Golden Age of French CFD in the 1970-80s: Aerodynamics with Finite Elements and the European Multi-Physics HERMES Program.- Code Development in the German Aerospace Industry up to the Mid 1990s.- Discontinuities in Compressible Flows: Italian Contributions.- Flashback: 30 Years Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics in Japan, other Asian Countries and the Western Pacific Rim.- Computational Fluid Mechanics in Russia.- CFD Developments in the Northern European Countries.- Some Developments in Computational Aerodynamics in the UK.- The Development of Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics since the 1960s: US and Canada.- III: Current Applications of Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics/Aerodynamics.- European Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation Systems.- Numerical Aerodynamics in Transport Aircraft Design.- Numerical Aerothermodynamic Design in the European Space Industry.- The Second International Vortex Flow Experiment (VFE-2): Status 2007.- Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow Problems of Aeronautical Industry.- Issues of Multidisciplinary Design.- Evolutionary Optimisation Methods with Uncertainty for Modern Multidisciplinary Design in Aeronautical Engineering.- CFD Application in Automotive Industry.- IV: Applications to Flow Problems in Engineering and Physics.- Performance Upgrading of Hydraulic Machinery with the Help of CFD.- Calculating Blast Loads for Civil Engineering Structures.- Numerical Modelling of Technical Combustion.- Kinetic Modeling and Simulation of Environmental and Civil Engineering Flow Problems.- CFD in Process Engineering.- Computational Electromagnetics.- Computer Modelling of Magnetically Confined Plasmas.- Frontiers in Computational Geophysics: Simulations of Mantle Circulation, Plate Tectonics and Seismic Wave Propagation.- Solar System Plasmadynamics and Space Weather.- Numerical Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics.- V: Algorithms, Computer Science and Computers.- Multigrid Software for Industrial Applications - From MG00 to SAMG.- Computer Science and Numerical Fluid Mechanics An Essential Cooperation.- Commercial CFD in the Service of Industry: The First 25 Years.- High Performance Computing in Academia and Industry - An Example for a Private Public Partnership in HPC.- Computer Hardware Development as a Basis for Numerical Simulation.- Petaflops Computers and Beyond.