@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00030711, author = {Nakamura, Ikuo and Watanabe, Takashi}, issue = {2}, journal = {Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University}, month = {Mar}, note = {First of all, the issues of artificial intelligence present dualism, tool, mental act, pure and practical reason, symbols and the realizability of an artificial intelligence system. The main points of Chap. I are importance of rapid, complex and very long reasoning of AI as a tool, the difficulty of fluids engineering problems which require very profound knowledge, and igniting the mental act. In Chap. II, problems are considered, which appear when the domain of discourse is defined equations, and it is shown that in order to find the correspondence between such a world and the real world, we need practical reason. Also the meaning of symbols is discussed as a process of the compression of the world into symbol and reconstruction of the world from the symbol. Finally, the significance of idea related to AI is considered. Following chapters treat real problems. In Chap. III an efficient method is presented for computational fluid dynamics, which produces a finite difference code automatically for general non-linear parabolic equations. Dimensional analysis has shown very important qualitative results for complex problems in many scientific and engineering branches. An automatic and very general dimensional analyzing system is described in Chap. IV and its high performance is shown by ways of examples. Discussion in Chap. V centers on an application of knowledge engineering to problems in fluid mechanics. The study is also intended to reveal information about the structure of the solving process of human beings in this field. The analyzing system simulates the student's way of processing. Concept data, equation data and inference data are assumed. Examples are given of the problems to determine material characteristic values using equations. Chapter VI considers the fundamental aspects of an application of artificial intelligence to a solving mechanism for elementary problems in fluids engineering. Problems in fluids engineering are classified into two categories, one with unchanging circumstances and the other with changing ones. A multiple layer production system is implemented and it is shown that such types of problems can be well represented.}, pages = {183--237}, title = {Fundamental study of the problem solver for fluids engineering}, volume = {42}, year = {1991} }