Landmarks and new frontiers of computational fluid dynamics

Abstract

A narrative of landmarks in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is presented to highlight the cornerstone achievements. Illuminating accomplishments starting from the very beginning of the coherent development until the most recent progress will be elucidated over the span over more than six decades. Meanwhile, the cutting-edge scientific innovations will also be discussed for their lasting impacts to fluid dynamics and the physics-based modeling and simulation discipline. To traverse such a vast domain over time by a single presentation, numerous and excellent contributions to CFD will be unavoidably overlooked. Nevertheless it is my ardent hope that the present discussion will be able to reaffirm excellence in research and to identify new frontiers for scientific research. Especially, the challenges to future innovations will also be delineated to recommend for potential and fertile research areas for the modeling and simulation science.