This Week in CFD
Software The XFlow CFD solver is now available for use in the cloud. From the CAD world comes DEVELOP3D’s review of Solid Edge ST6. If you’ve ever wanted to write your own Tecplot file you need to...
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CFD Then and Now When you have 40 minutes, spend the time with CD-adapco and Chad Jackson as the latter takes a look at CFD Then and Now. With respect to CFD now, “meshing is almost hands free.” CFD...
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Software Releases Intelligent Light announced FieldView 14 including 400-times faster unsteady particle visualization and 8-core usage standard. CONVERGE Studio now fully integrates EnSight for...
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Must Read Stories This is a fascinating story of Australia’s only aircraft accident for which the aircraft and persons onboard have never been recovered. CFD was used as part of the latest search for a...
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Applications Full car STAR-CCM+ thermal simulation visualized using FieldView. Image from Intelligent Light. Intelligent Light will be presenting their work on transient visualization and...
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Business If you’re interested in the state of the Russian MCAD market, a bilingual research paper is available from Ralph Grabowski, editor of upFront.eZine. Two perspicuous posts from MonicaSchnitger:...
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Special “Happy Birthday to ‘Murica” Version News DEVELOP3D writes about running SolidWorks in the cloud using NVIDIA’s Grid Test Drive. Congratulations to Altair for being recognized as a 2014 Michigan...
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All The News – 2 Weeks Worth Tecplot announced the release of Tecplot 360 EX with new technology they call SZL which promises 92% less memory usage and a 9.6x speed-up over previous versions. In...
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Hardware Screen capture from Alex Haldane’s winning entry in CD-adapco’s academic simulation contest. (See link below.) An overview of how the U.S. government will push, prod, and pull us toward an...
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Special “Black Friday” Edition* (i.e. No time to write meaningful headings. Hey, it’s my day off.) The 1st Analysis, Simulation, and Systems Engineering Software Summit (ASSESS) This coming January a...
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Software An adjoint method for conjugate heat transfer is coming in STAR-CCM+ v10.04. This image shows heat transfer on a cooled turbine blade. Image from CD-adapco. Click image for article. At least...
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Applications Boeing’s CFD software helped Callaway Golf produce a tournament winning driver. CFD software for designing sailboats. Do you think like a simulation engineer? Read about six rules for...
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News Students have until next Friday (15 July) to apply for the HPC for Undergraduates program at SC16 (aka Supercomputing). Certainly someone’s CFD visualization is a good candidate for this year’s...
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Cloud CONSELF Cloud Simulation v2.9 was released with improvements in hex meshing, modal displacement calculations, and more. ENGINEERING.com wrote a bit about Envenio’s cloud-based delivery of...
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Pointwise Events Join Pointwise in Stuttgart on 4-5 December for the Pointwise Meshing Technology Conference, a deep dive into our technology for geometry modeling; high-order, structured and...
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In this last edition of This Week in CFD of 2017 you’ll find insight on Mentor’s Cartesian-based approach to mesh generation, tips on visualizing your simulation results, and an update on the Exascale...
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Letting 3 weeks of CFD news pile up in my bookmarks made writing this post a slog, but not as tough as the one you’ll have trying to read it all. So to help you make it to the end, … Continue reading →
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This week I spent some time on Revolution in Simulation’s website to learn more about Sim Apps and democratization. There’s a fun article about CAD file formats and simulation and updates on software...
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While I continue to slog through the backlog of CFD news created by my own sloth – and many of you have pointed out that I seem to be missing the new news – there are some great items that … Continue...
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This week’s news includes a long introduction to quantum computing that’s worth reading just in case we’ll be running CFD on such things. Lots of CFD applications are included, such as the one shown...
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