Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Fluid Flow

This lecture introduces the software system Channelflow for numerical analysis of incompressible fluid flow in channel geometries. It covers the development of Channelflow 2.0, based on the serial channelflow-1.5 software. The lecture explains the use of spectral methods for accurate simulations, the NSOLVER library for finding invariant solutions, and the CHFLOW library for creating fluid simulation code. It also details the prerequisites for installing Channelflow, including CMake, C++11 compiler, FFTW, Eigen3, MPI, NetCDF, and HDF5. The lecture emphasizes the importance of parallelization and the Python wrapper for Channelflow functions.