History of CFD

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• Historical perspective
• Hall of fame
• Famous achievements in CFD
• CFD quotations

The purpose of this section is to provide a concise review of the history of CFD. A general Historical perspective summarizing the key milestones in CFD is presented. The Hall of fame includes short biographical scketches of the people who made significant contributions to CFD along with a summary of these contributions. The Famous achievements in CFD presents a list of crucial problems that were solved using CFD techniques.

Here are a few milestones in the early history of CFD:

• 1910 - Richardson, 50 page paper to Royal Society, hand calculations with human computers, 2000 operations per week...
• ~1960 - Scientific American articles on CFD
• 1965 - Marker and Cell methods - Harlow & Welch
• 1965 - Use in research and "grand challenges" (NASA, Los Alamos...)
• 1970 - Finite difference methods for Navier-Stokes
• 1970 - Finite element methods for stress analysis
• 1980 - Finite volume methods (Imperial College)
• 1985 - Use in "aero" industries (Boeing, General Electric, ...)
• 1995 - Use in "non-aero" industries (GM, Ford, Astra, Ericsson...)