Field-tested to appeal to a variety of scientific, mathematical, and engineering disciplines. Range of Abilities. A limited topic focus allows space for both elementary and advanced material. Novices may never need to know the advanced material, but it's there just in case. Established professionals may not need the basic material, but a review never hurts.
Many textbooks stress linear and locally-linear methods.
Yet modern CFD is moving relentlessly towards inherently nonlinear methods. This has led to endless confusion in the CFD community, even among experts, since most treatments are based heavily on linear methods. The intuitions built on linear methods and theories are often applied to nonlinear methods, with disasterous consequences. Computational Gasdynamics is constructed from the ground up to treat nonlinear methods. The book constructs advanced methods as modular combinations of basic building-block methods.