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A Brief I’ve Been at AIAA SciTech All Week Edition ANSYS announced the six winners (three corporate, three academic) of their 2016 Hall of Fame Competition. One of the corporate winners was Combustion...
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Applications Just in time for St. Patrick’s day beer drinking, COMSOL computes why bubbles rise in your glass of stout. Researchers at Johns Hopkins used CFD to study the wind conditions that make the...
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I’m Rick Matus and This Is How I Mesh
Dr. Richard Matus, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. I grew up as an air force brat, so moving around the country was a feature of my younger days. I was born in San Antonio and also...
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I’m Tom Economon and This Is How I Mesh
In my last episode, I recapped my adventure through Japan with the Pointwise team for the VINAS Users Conference 2015 last fall. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to reuse the picture that Rick Matus...
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Software SU2 v4.2 has been released with a new fluid-structure interaction capability. Here’s an article describing CD-adapco’s capabilities for simulating noise in fluids and structures....
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Mistakes and Failure ENGINEERING.com shares six of the most embarrassing simulation mistakes you can make [and I’m willing to be we’ve all done one of them at least once. For example, #3 mixing SI and...
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I’m Chavaly Venkatesh and This Is How I Mesh
Chavaly Venkatesh, Partner, KFour Metrics. An impartial absence of malice towards any subject that didn’t involve formalin meant I could pretty much play the field on leaving school. The dice were...
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Computing A Cray SVP makes supercomputing predictions for 2017. Regarding the cloud, 2017 will be “partly cloudy.” [This might be another supercomputing prediction but…] Inside HPC reports that China...
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I’m Brian Ta and This Is How I Mesh
Brian Ta, Product Development Intern. Howdy everybody! I am a Vietnamese born American originally from Fountain Valley, California. The only memories I have from there are of the beach in addition to...
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The CFD news on this first day of December includes everything from the common cold to other things (about computational science) that are horrible. But don’t fret, there are a couple of ideas for your...
View ArticleTop Posts of 2017 on Another Fine Mesh
It was Confucius who supposedly said “Study the past, if you would divine the future.” With that in mind, we looked back at 2017’s posts here on Another Fine Mesh to see which ones got the most views....
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This week’s two-week backlog of news includes, perhaps appropriately, a ton of good reading. A lot of reading about meshes and some bigger issues like consolidated CAE toolsets versus best in class...
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This week’s roundup of CFD news includes a major announcement about the SU2 flow solver, a “save the date” notice for an upcoming CFD workshop, a very interesting job opportunity, and more. Software...
View ArticleHigh-Lift Prediction Using SU2 v6 Falcon & Pointwise
The SU2 team and Pointwise recently teamed up and ran one of the meshes generated for the AIAA High Lift Prediction Workshop using the latest release of SU2. Information regarding the workshop, the...
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This week’s CFD news includes many people-oriented items including a podcast about women in CFD, a profile of a weather simulation researcher, the launch of an open-source CFD society, and the call for...
View ArticleMesh Import Plugins – New in Pointwise V18.1
With the new Grid Import API in Pointwise Version 18.1’s Plugin SDK, you can now read virtually any mesh file into the software. The wonderful thing about file formats is there are so many of them....
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The subject of wind tunnels and testing has come up a lot in the last couple of weeks so it’s perfect that this post includes a link to a photo essay of NASA’s wind tunnels. Of course, there’s all the...
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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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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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Everyone in CFD is hiring, or so it seems. Four companies, including Pointwise, are advertising for open positions and there certainly are others. Did CFD visualization need rethinking? Ceetron thinks...
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