The scope ofthis book is to discuss recent numerical and algorithmic
tools for the solution of certain flow problems arising in Computational
Fluid Dynam- ics (CFD). Here, we mainly restrict ourselves to the case
ofthe incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, Ut - v u + U . V'u+ V'p =
f, V'-u = o. (1) These basic equations already play an important role in
CFD, both for math- ematicians as well as for more practical scientists:
Physically important facts with "real life" character can be described
by them, including also economical aspects in industrial applications.
On the other hand, the equations in (1) provide the complete spectrum of
numerical problems nowadays concerning the mathematical treatment of
partial differential equations. Although this field of research may
appear to be a small part only inside of CFD, it was and still is of
great interest for mathematicians as well as engineers, physicists,
computer scientists and many more: a fact which can be easily checked by
counting the numerous publications. Nevertheless, our contribution has
some unique characteristics since it contains a few ofthe lat- est
results for the numerical solution of (complex) flow problems on modern
computer platforms. In this book, our particular emphasis lies on the
solu- tion process ofthe resulting high dimensional discrete systems
ofequations which is often neglected in other works. Together with the
included CDROM, which contains the 'FEATFLOW 1.