edited by Eduardo Ramos (UNAM, Mexico), Rafael Fernández-Flores (UNAM, Mexico), Alfredo Santillán-González (UNAM, Mexico), & Gerardo Cisneros (Silicon Graphics, SA de CV, SGI, Mexico)

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics. The topics range from fundamentals and computational techniques to a wide variety of applications in astronomy, applied mathematics, meteorology, etc. They describe recent calculations in direct numerical simulation of turbulence, applications of turbulence modeling of pollution problems in mesoscale meteorology, industrial applications, etc. The emerging topic of parallelization of CFD codes is also presented. This volume will appeal to graduate students, researchers and anyone interested in using digital computation as a powerful tool for solving fluid dynamics problems in science and technology.

• Astrophysics:
  • Very High Resolution Simulations of Compressible, Turbulent Flows (P R Woodward et al.)
  • Astrophysical Jets (A C Raga et al.)
  • Photoionizing Shocks in the Interstellar Medium (S J Arthur)
  • Thermal Instability in a Turbulent Medium (A Gazol et al.)
• Geophysics:
  • Stratiform Low Clouds: Phenomenology and Large Eddy Simulations (D K Lilly)
  • On the Modeling of Deep Convective Clouds over Mexico City (G B Raga & J Morfin)
  • Spectral Structure of Growing Normal Modes for Exact Solutions to the Barotropic Vorticity Equation on a Sphere (Y N Skiba & A Y Strelkov)
• Numerical and Computational Aspests:
  • Distributed Parallel Simulation of Surface Tension Driven Viscous Flow and Transport Processes (G F Carey et al.)
  • Parallelization of a Two-Way Interactive Grid Nesting Atmospheric Model (P Jabouille)
  • Numerical Solutions of Nonlinear DIA Equations and Calculation of Turbulent Diffusivities (N A Silant'ev)
• Applications:
  • From Stars to Volcanoes: The SPH Story (J J Monaghan)
  • Natural Convection in a Slender Container (L M de la Cruz & E Ramos)
  • Isotherms in a Solid with a Tilted Fracture and their Effects on the Local Fluid Motion (A Medina et al.)
  • and other papers.