Combining previously unconnected computational methods, this monograph discusses the latest basic schemes and algorithms for the solution of fluid, heat and mass transfer problems coupled with electrodynamics. It presents the necessary mathematical background of computational thermo-fluid dynamics, the numerical implementation and the application to real-world problems. Particular emphasis is placed throughout on the use of electromagnetic fields to control the heat, mass and fluid flows in melts and on phase change phenomena during the solidification of pure materials and binary alloys. However, the book provides much more than formalisms and algorithms; it also stresses the importance of good, feasible and workable models to understand complex systems, and develops these in detail.
Bringing computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and electrodynamics together, this is a useful source for materials scientists, PhD students, solid state physicists, process engineers and mechanical engineers, as well as lecturers in mechanical engineering.


Petr Nikrityuk is head of the research group 'Interphase Phenomena' within the 'Virtual High Temperature Conversion Processes' (VIRTUHCON) project at the Technical University Freiberg, Germany. He studied mechanical engineering at the Moscow Aviation Institute where he also obtained his PhD on the topic of mathematical modeling of thermal processes. Before taking up his current position in Freiberg, Petr Nikrityuk worked as software developer in the field of computational fluid dynamics and as a research scientist in the Institute for Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University Dresden, Germany.