This Week in CFD
This is the first CFD news roundup of 2022 Q2 and it comes with the implication – or at least hope – that everyone’s Q1 was productive. We’re meshing a lot of rotating machinery this week, we have...
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This week’s compilation of CFD news includes a complete description of boundary layer turbulence, lots of new software releases, and mobile sewer odor testing. And I really hope to get caught up before...
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Clean your reading spectacles because this week’s roundup of CFD news includes some substantial reading and watching. An article asks why simulation isn’t mainstream yet and a video answers in a manner...
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I wish I could say there was something specific that stands out in this week’s compilation of CFD news. But it’s a fairly uniform compendium of CFD applications, software releases, company and tech...
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It’s a good Friday for the latest roundup of CFD flotsam and jetsam from the ocean that is the internet. [Making this the Great CFD Garbage Gyre?] We use the marine theme because, for unexplained...
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Completely fungible and non-tokenized, today’s CFD news begins with a hopeful glimpse at a potential in-person CFD event. You should check-out the list of tips for simulation projects and let us know...
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Based on the number of event announcements and updates in this week’s CFD news, everyone’s desire to bring the CFD community together at conferences is almost palpable even though we’re still waiting...
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This week’s CFD news includes many examples of CFD in action from baseballs to cement and canoes. We start off with CFD expert Doug Ball being interviewed about HPC which really is a must-read. And if...
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What CFD application would require 10 quadrillion mesh points? That and more is included in this week’s CFD news. In addition to the usual, cool applications of CFD and software releases, there seem to...
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This week’s CFD news is less inscrutable than the Great Sphinx of Giza (shown here courtesy of the must-try new tool for mesh viz in your browser, HexLab) and includes several recently announced...
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Awards, Contests, and Events Proving that you never know who’ll be talking about CFD next, Jeff Bezos tweeted that Blue Origin’s recent wind tunnel tests of the New Glenn rocket helped validate their...
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Meshing Envenio shares five advantages of structured grids. #4 High Degree of Control. [For more than you probably ever want to know about Pointwise’s implementation of structured grid techniques read...
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News Desktop Engineering is conducting a Software Brand Awareness Survey. For your participation, you’ll have a chance to win a drawing for prizes. [But help them collect good data regardless.] An...
View Article8 Questions with Robin Knowles from CFD Engine
Robin Knowles is the founder of CFD Engine, a solo aerodynamics consultancy where he uses CFD to help clients find and fix their expensive airflow problems. What do you see are the biggest challenges...
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*** Late Edition *** Must Read Despite being a post from nearly two years ago, Lessons from the History of CFD is well worth reading today. Its origin was the 2013 symposium Celebrating the Careers of...
View Article8 Questions with Peter Vincent
Peter Vincent is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London where he researches in the field of computational fluid dynamics, and teaches mathematics and numerical...
View ArticlePointwise V17.3 R4 Now Available
Pointwise Version 17.3 R4 is now available for download and production use. In addition to many bug fixes, this version is compatible with three new file formats. The open source PyFR...
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News FluiDyna has added nanoFluidX (particle-based simulation) and ultraFluidX (Lattice-Boltzmann) to Altair’s Partner Alliance. Onshape, “the first and only full-cloud 3D CAD system,” has gained...
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Pointwise Pointwise’s Dr. Steve Karman will participate in a webinar hosted by the Centre for Modeling and Simulation (CFMS) on 21 September to discuss high order CFD technologies. Dr. Peter Vincent...
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Applications A visualization of vortical flow downstream of a drilling rig. Image from Scientific Computing. See link below. MUST READ: From our friends at ANSYS comes this story of how CFD was used to...
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