This Week in CFD
Meshing CD-adapco’s Dr. Mesh gives advice on modeling rotating wheels. [Dr. Mesh makes me laugh because back in the day someone told us that people who do meshing are the nurses of CFD, not the...
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Software Software Cradle released SC/Tetra 11. COMSOL released Multiphysics 4.4. WindSim made their solver more accurate for wind farm simulations such that annual energy production can be improved...
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Applications Cradle North America’s SC/Tetra was used to compute the aerodynamic performance of the vehicles in the video game Gran Turismo 6. From the Journal of Aerosol Science comes CFD Simulation...
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Applications MUST READ: From our friends at ANSYS comes this story of how CFD was used to design a method of improving aircraft cabin air quality. Specifically, the study showed how to “effectively...
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CFD News Altair challenges you to begin using CFD in the cloud. Their HPC Cloud Challenge will award selected applicants with software, support, and access to their HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual...
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Less Than Special Edition I’m travelling, so here’s an unprioritized news dump. (OK, not totally unprioritized. I put the chocolate picture first because candy.) Simulating chocolate flow A new way to...
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Special “I’ve eaten too much turkey” Edition* News & Events Siemens PLM Software acquired Mentor Graphics for $4.5 billion. This deal brings together STAR-CCM+ and FloEFD. DEVELOP3D also wrote...
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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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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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