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| | A Brief History of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from Fluent |
 | | These forms of the differential mathematical equations that they proposed nearly 200 years ago are the basis of the modern day computational fluid dynamics (CFD) industry, and they include expressions for the conservation of mass, momentum, pressure, species and turbulence. |
 | | Indeed, the equations are so closely coupled and difficult to solve that it was not until the advent of modern digital computers in the 1960s and 1970s that they could be resolved for real flow problems within reasonable timescales. |
 | | Other key figures who developed theories related to fluid flow in the 19th century were Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Siméon-Denis Poisson, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, John William Rayleigh, M. Maurice Couette, Osborne Reynolds, and Pierre Simon de Laplace. |
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