Finite volume methods are used in numerous applications and by a broad multidisciplinary
scientific community. The book communicates this important tool to students researchers in
training and academics involved in the training of students in different science and technology
fields. The selection of content is based on the author's experience giving PhD and master
courses in different universities. In the book the introduction of new concepts and numerical
methods go together with simple exercises examples and applications that contribute to
reinforce them. In addition some of them involve the execution of MATLAB codes. The author
promotes an understanding of common terminology with a balance between mathematical rigor and
physical intuition that characterizes the origin of the methods. This book aims to be a first
contact with finite volume methods. Once readers have studied it they will be able to follow
more specific bibliographical references and use commercial programs or open source software
within the framework of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
