CD-adapco Released STAR-CCM+ v6.06

The new STAR-CCM+ v6.06 release from CD-adapco promises to improve turnaround with faster polyhedral meshing and improved CAD readers and broaden the scope of applications with multiphase flow and LES combustion.

• CD-adapco’s announcement including videos
• Full list of features (PDF)

Dual 2D/3D Computer Display

Fujitsu announced the launch of the first professional, dual 2D/3D display. The P23T-6 FPR 3D display targets CAD/CAE professionals who need a 23 inch desktop monitor and a 3D display for viewing and sharing complex graphics applications.

• Fujitsu’s announcement

Red Bull Formula 1 Drives to Victory with FieldView

Red Bull Formula 1 racing won the 2011 constructor’s and driver’s championships. With 80% of their aero design work done via CFD, Red Bull relies on Intelligent Light’s FieldView software to automate and streamline the extraction of engineering data from huge CFD data sets.

• Intelligent Light’s case study

Applications and New Releases

• CFD was used in this study the effect of impingement plates on heat exchangers.
• Version 7.20.4 of BRL-CAD, the open source solid modeling package, was released.
• A CFD blog in Portuguese: Mec. Flu., CFD and HPC
• You need to be an M.D. to understand this but apparently CFD was used to predict flow and pressure in coronary arteries to ultimately produce “lesion-specific fractional flow reserve.”
• CFD is used to help design a wind tunnel built to help validate CFD.
• Bombardier’s CSeries’ aerodynamic performance was validated using both CFD and wind tunnel testing.
• This online, interactive Java application computes a wing’s lift coefficient using a discrete vortex Weissinger method.

High Speed Bubble Photographs

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