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Stanford Releases CFD Tools as Open Source Aircraft solution computed using SU2. Image from Stanford's Aerospace Design Lab. The Aerospace Design Lab at Stanford University announced the open-source...
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Stanford Released SU2 Version 1.1 SU2 Workflow. Image courtesy of Stanford Univ. Stanford University released Version 1.1 of their SU2 (Stanford University Unstructured) open-source CFD code. New in...
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Going 800 mph With CFD CFD has for a long time been applied to aircraft and automobiles. But what about an aircraft that has been converted into an automobile? Start with an F-104 fighter aircraft....
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Software Releases Stanford will release v2.0 of their SU2 open source CFD code on 8 January. Two other events are planned in conjunction with that release. A presentation at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences...
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Stanford ADL SU2 News The Aerospace Design Lab at Stanford University released SU2 Version 2, their open source, C++ based CFD code. It is reported that SU2 has been downloaded over 2,700 times in the...
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8 Questions with Stanford’s Juan Alonso
Juan J. Alonso is an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University. He is the founder and director of the Aerospace Design Laboratory (ADL), where he...
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Software Stanford’s SU2 open-source CFD code is now maintained on GitHub. Visit the repository here. CEI announced that EnSight now supports TRK (particle track files) from STAR-CCM+. (Be sure to watch...
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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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Software The SU2 CFD solver can now be run on the SimScale platform. Materialise released Magics 18 for working with discrete data for 3D printing. Beta CAE released ANSA v14.2.2. Siemens PLM released...
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Stanford Updates SU2 The Aerospace Design Lab at Stanford University last week announced a new release of their open source CFD code, SU2. This new version, called “Eagle” or v3.0, is focused on...
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[This is the brief "even I have to do real work every once in a while" edition.] News The UberCloud HPC Experiment has become the UberCloud Marketplace, a cloud-based CAE service. A CFD consultancy in...
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Software STAR-CCM+ v9.02 is due to be released at the end of February and CD-adapco has been offering previews of new features including volume rendering. GPU acceleration of OpenFOAM can be had using...
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Would you care for some CFD with that Pi?
I can find inspiration for projects just about anywhere. While many ideas are fleeting and only grab enough attention for a day or two of work, some stick around and snowball into interesting projects....
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Applications Screen capture from a video showing CFD simulation of natural ventilation in a steel mill. Video by Moffitt Corp. Video of a CFD simulation of using natural convection to cool a steel mill...
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Software Patents In a closely watched ruling (maybe only by us software people) the U.S. Supreme court ruled unanimously in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank that you can’t get a software patent for an abstract...
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Thoughts The Virtual Engineer ponders whether we need more standards for CAE interoperability and emphasizes the possible benefits for mobile visualization. The author answers his own question: “of...
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Software Here’s this week’s “must click” link: WebGL-based fluid experiment. [Must have a “modern” browser and plenty of horsepower to enjoy the full experience.] Maybe our friends who know particle...
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I’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...
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I’m Travis Carrigan and This Is How I Mesh
Travis Carrigan, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. Have you ever been to the Idaho Potato Museum? If not, you should go. They’ll give you a free potato at the end of the tour…or at...
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VINAS Users Conference 2015: Perspectives from Japan
During this past October, I had the pleasure of joining the Pointwise team on a trip to Japan for the 2015 VINAS User Group Meeting. VINAS (Visual Integration & Numerical Analysis Systems) is a...
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