This text is for graduate students in mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and engineering mechanics. Students should have background in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. An introductory knowledge of finite element techniques is helpful but not essential; some familiarity with basic numerical analysis, linear algebra, and numerical integration is also helpful. The text's practical treatment offers less emphasis on theory and proofs and more emphasis on methods for numerical simulation of heat conduction, incompressible viscous flows, and convection heat transfer. This third edition adds new material primarily in the first five chapters, reflecting research over the past 8 years. There is new material on low-speed compressible flows, mode superposition methods, radiation solution methods, variational multiscale methods, and least-squares finite element models. Chapter problems are included. Information on the authors is not given. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)