This Week in CFD
KARALIT CFD Italian software company KARALIT announced the free downloadable release of their new KARALIT CFD software which utilizes what they call the Immersed Mesh method. They claim to have...
View ArticleDr. Strangegrid or: How I Learned to Stop Waiting and Write a CAE Plugin
Your plugin can be here! One of the most frequent requests we get from customers, distributors and solver vendors is to add support for some exotic new (or old) CAE file format. Unfortunately, we must...
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CFD Market To Grow 14% Annually Through 2015 According to market research firm Market Research, the global market for CFD should grow at 14% compound annual growth rate through the year 2015. The “key...
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Software CEI released EnSight 10.1.2b, a maintenance release of their CFD visualization and postprocessing software. In another preview of STAR-CCM+ v10.02, CD-adapco shares a video about the...
View ArticleI’m Zach Davis and This Is How I Mesh
Zach Davis, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. I’m on my way to becoming a versatile meshing expert with Pointwise. Structured, unstructured, overset, hybrid…you name it, and I’ll...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of the Ideal Mesh
What is the Ideal Mesh? There are many options to select from when choosing the appropriate meshing technique (which may precipitate decisions regarding preprocessing solutions) to discretize your...
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Lucky “Friday the 13th“ Edition Contests, Competitions, and Awards CD-adapco announced Wian van der Merwe of Aerotherm as the winner of their 2016 Calendar Competition for his visualization of the...
View ArticleThe Connector Newsletter for 2016, 1st Quarter
North America’s Largest 3-D Printed Structure Started as a Mesh While the folks at Pointwise appreciate the beauty and utility of grids, usually the computational meshes produced by our software are...
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Good Reading Engineering.com presents a really interesting (i.e. a conversation starter) infographic on the relative merits of the five categories of CFD software: Open-Source, Open-Source Wrapper,...
View ArticleI’m Mike Park and This Is How I Mesh
Mike Park, Research Scientist, Computational AeroSciences Branch, NASA Langley Research Center. I grew up in New Jersey where may father was always fixing something in his workshop and I was very lucky...
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Software There are some very cool charting and graphing features coming in STAR-CCM+ v12. What they call Chart Highlighting includes hover effects, leader lines, multi-series editing, and more....
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ASSESS The ASSESS Initiative‘s website is now live. Quoting from their website, ASSESS “is a broad reaching multi-industry initiative with a primary goal to facilitate a revolution of enablement that...
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Good Reading The Philosophy of Simulation Software Development was a headline certain to get my attention. In the article, MSC Software’s VP of product development writes that “product development is...
View ArticleI’m Brian Ta and This Is How I Mesh
Brian Ta, Product Development Intern. Howdy everybody! I am a Vietnamese born American originally from Fountain Valley, California. The only memories I have from there are of the beach in addition to...
View ArticleCFD in AIAA’s Year in Review
CFD and related technology appears throughout the Aerospace America 2017 Year in Review issue. Here are the highlights I found in the order they appear in the magazine. Plus I’ve included a few non-CFD...
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This week’s two-week backlog of news includes, perhaps appropriately, a ton of good reading. A lot of reading about meshes and some bigger issues like consolidated CAE toolsets versus best in class...
View ArticleA Visit to SAE International’s 2018 World Congress Experience (WCX)
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International hosted their automotive-focused 2018 World Congress Experience (WCX) during 10-12 of April . The conference was held at the Cobo Center in...
View ArticleDiscover Meshing Best-Practices in Pointwise for Propulsion Aerodynamics...
Meshing remains somewhat of an art. Engineers tend to spend a significant amount of time generating grids, while mathematicians develop more advanced algorithms that may end up being exercised on...
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In this end-of-summer edition of This Week in CFD we see several outstanding examples of applied CFD including a heart valve done with STAR-CCM+, a tuna done with SC/Tetra, and certification by CFD...
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This week’s CFD news leads with a summary of some of the cool CFD-related events going on at next summer’s AIAA Aviation include special sessions focused on quantifying the effects of the mesh on a CFD...
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