Other than whatever internal resources their employers may have, industrial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) practitioners have almost no texts to lean on written from an industrial perspective. Existing texts are generally written for an academic audience and/or are focused on the algorithms and theory, rendering them inaccessible to a large swath of the industrial audience. Additionally, software vendors are increasingly pushing to get CFD into the hands of people without a deep background in fluid dynamics modeling. This book provide novices as well as non-expert practitioners with an informed, authoritative viewpoint on how to perform industrial CFD.

The book is split into three main parts. Part I presents a brief section on concepts in CFD in academic and industrial settings, their pros and cons, and the gap that exists between the two perspectives. Part II presents an overview of the equations for single- and multiphase flows using different modeling frameworks as well as the numerical methods for solving them with emphasis on choices the modeler must make when simulating real-world problems. Part III, which forms the bulk of the book, covers case studies and applications including fluidized bed reactors, fixed bed reactors, gas-liquid flows, slurry flows, mixing, heat transfer, and atmospheric dispersion

With the above applications covered the book stresses the importance of fluid dynamics in chemical process industries which many texts on CFD modeling tend to overlook. The book handles this by providing numerous case studies from the authors' own experience in the energy and petrochemicals industries giving readers ideas on how to utilize CFD modeling to solve problems practically in their own work.