The goal of this book is to present the new trend of Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) for the 21 st Century. It consists of papers presented at
a symposium honoring Prof. No- buyuki Satofuka on the occasion of his
60th birthday. The symposium entitled Computational Fluid Dynamics fOT
the 21st Century was held at Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) in
Kyoto, Japan on July 15-17,2000. The symposium was hosted by KIT as a
memorial event celebrating the 100 year anniversary of this
establishment. The invited speakers were from Ja- pan as weil as from
the international community in Asia, Europe and North America. It is a
great pleasure to dedicate this book to Prof. Satofuka in appreciation
ofhis contributions to this field. During the last 30 years, Prof.
Satofuka made many important contributions to CFD ad- vancing the
numerics and our understanding of flow physics in different regimes. The
details of his contributions are discussed in the first chapter. The
book contains chapters covering re- lated topics with emphasis on new
promising directions for the 21 st Century. The chapters of the book
reflect the 10 sessions of the symposium on both the numerics and the
applications including grid generation and adaptation, new numerical
schemes, optimi- zation techniques and parallel computations as weil as
applications to multi-sc ale and multi- physics problems, design and
flow control and new topics beyond aeronautics. In the follow- ing, the
chapters of the book are introduced.