Celeritas Announces Availability of Suggar++ for Overset Grid Hole Cutting
Overset surface grids for the ONR Tumblehome ship. Solution by CFDShip-IOWA.
Celeritas Simulation Technology announces the commercial availability of Suggar++, a general purpose overset grid assembly code. Suggar++ can be used as a pre-processor for static configurations or coupled with the overset flow solver for time dependent simulations. The software supports both structured and unstructured overset grids.
- Celeritas‘ website
SGI’s CTO Predicts Broader Use of CFD in 2012
Dr. Eng Lim Goh, chief technology officer at SGI, offered in an article at Bio-ITWorld.com ten predictions for high performance computing during 2012. He prefaced these predictions with an opinion that we are transitioning from an information age to a knowledge age. One prediction is a broader use of CFD based on its track record of replacing costly testing of physical prototypes with simulations of everything from rockets to arteries. In particular, he predicts CFD will find practical application in “systems biology” during 2012. [Keep in mind the forum in which this article appears. Also keep in mind that SGI acquired open-source CFD solver OpenFOAM last year.]
Other predictions include personalized medicine, severe weather prediction, and proofs of black hole evaporation.
- Bio-ITWorld.com’s article
Applications, Jobs & New Releases
CFD results superimposed on a photo of a Lola B08/80 LMP2 car.
- Speed TV goes inside motorsport company Lola and learns about their use of CFD.
- SolidWorks Flow Simulation was used to compute the flowfield around Mary Poppins and her umbrella.
- An Ohio State professor simulated the flow in an unducted counter-rotating fan.
- Beta CAE released ANSA v13.2.1.
- NASA Dryden’s F-15B test aircraft was used to collect data on a new inlet concept, the Channeled Centerbody Inlet Experiment, that will be used to validate CFD simulations.
- ANSYS CFD was applied to the Toyota Prius.
- Sweden’s KTH is seeking an Application Expert/Researcher/Postdoc in CFD.
- AVID LLC‘s CFD expertise is available for consulting services.
- This gallery of turbulent flows is from Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research.
- Donkervoort Automotive redesigned their D8 GTO with the help of SolidWorks Flow Simulation.
Science Proves Bees and Dragonflies Really Can Fly
Clockwise and counterclockwise vortices around a dragonfly wing (black).
A Cornell University professor has used a two-dimensional simulation of the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations to show that insects like bumblebees and dragonflies are able to fly through the interactions with vortices produced by their flapping wings.
This NSF-funded study was performed in 2D. Work on 3D simulations is underway.
- Cornell’s announcement
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