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<div class="">This may be because such software goes under different names in different fields, not always directly labeled “computational fluid dynamics” or even “fluid dynamics."</div>
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<div class="">The first two fields to take on the computational simulation of fluid dynamics were atomic weapons research and meteorology/climate science. </div>
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<div class="">My book on climate science, <i class="">A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming</i> (2010), describes (among other things) the history of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, now at Princeton, one
of the first labs to design such software starting in the 1950s. </div>
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<div class="">A major element of all modern climate models is a “dynamical core,” which simulates the physics of fluid flows (air) around the globe. Ocean models also have one. </div>
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<div class="">Both atomic weapons researchers and climate modelers used this textbook on methods for solving partial differential equations using finite difference techniques in the late 1950s: Richtmyer, R. D. (1957).
<i class="">Difference Methods for Initial-Value Problems. </i>New York: Interscience Publishers. The last chapter is on fluid dynamics.</div>
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<div class="">Aircraft and ship design now rely heavily on simulating fluid flows, previously done physically in wind tunnels and tanks. The physics of turbulent boundary layers is one aspect of this modeling, again not naming “fluid dynamics” directly.</div>
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<div class="">I hope this gives you some hints for your search. </div>
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<div class="">On Sep 21, 2020, at 23:09, Ulf Hashagen <<a href="mailto:u.hashagen@deutsches-museum.de" class="">u.hashagen@deutsches-museum.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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I became interested in the history of "Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software" last week, but could not find much historical source material on this topic so far. May I ask for your advice and comments?<br class="">
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