This Week in CFD
New Releases FE-DESIGN released TOSCA Fluid 2.3.0 for fluid flow topology optimization. This new version has an enhanced GUI, shorter computation times, and improved reconstruction of the final design....
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Your lucky Friday the 13th Edition News It would’ve been hard for you to miss this but cloud-based CAD provider OnShape has launched in beta. A good overview is provided by this blog post. The 2015...
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Reading Meshing and preprocessing [Are they the same thing? Does pre- include meshing?] are a big part of the free, no-registration report from Tech Clarity on Addressing the Bottlenecks of FEA...
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*** Last Post of 2016 *** Software RealFlow introduced RealFlow 10. [And the video of its features is amazing.] Doyub Kim published Fluid Engine Development: a book, website, and source code. Disney,...
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There’s an article you must read this week from the SimCenter blog about Formula 1 aerodynamics and STAR-CCM+. Very cool, very enjoyable, and a great body of work. The rest of the news, due to time...
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With two weeks of CFD news to report, there’s more of everything from jobs to events, software releases, and cool applications. The wind turbine simulation here is from a new open-source CFD code...
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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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This week’s CFD news includes an amazing simulation of a Mars lander done with FUN3D and a couple of interesting job openings from our friends at Siemens. And from the world of unique CFD applications...
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The past two weeks have yielded two “must see” CFD articles. The first is on the data management and visualization aspects of using pressure sensitive paint in wind tunnel testing of NASA’s Space...
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This week’s CFD news seems to be dominated by business deals (involving FieldView, ANSYS, and more) and automotive applications. A new conference on CAE interoperability was announced for next year and...
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So much CFD news this week including a lot of software launches and a plethora of OpenFOAM versions. (So many OFs that I rhetorically ask for someone to map the OF universe for me.) There’s a very good...
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Did you catch the CFD shown on-air during the Super Bowl broadcast? It’s included in this week’s roundup of CFD news. And there are a few bigger science issues such as why airplanes fly, viscous heat,...
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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 begins with a new entrant in the commercial CFD software field, Azore CFD. I hope our academic readers will read and comment on an article about requirements for CFD software for...
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Welcome to the 400th edition of This Week in CFD where we begin with two very interesting articles about and from CAE industry veterans, Jon Hirschtick and Ron Fritz, respectively. Also, recently...
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This week’s CFD news includes a nice article about gas turbine engine CFD using a GPU accelerated code (the image shown here) and a nice interview with Siemens’ CEO. There are positive signs ahead...
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This week’s CFD news brings some excellent reading as we head into a 3-day weekend, at least here in the U.S. It begins with a research article on undergraduate education that’s certain spark thinking...
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In this week’s CFD news we learn that in-person events are starting to show up on the calendar. Lots of applied CFD this week, from boilers to bookshelves. And news of a new book by Edward Tufte for...
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This week’s CFD news has something for fans of origin stories; read about how CFD Support came to be. There’s also a lot of good reading about HPC, some positive business news, and signs that we might...
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As we approach the end of 2020 (Huzzah!) there’s a lot of positive news on the business of CAE and from conferences that are starting to come back as at least hybrid events. In particular, highlighted...
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