Software & Applications
- Here’s news about another cloud-based engineering startup. Airstone promises a real-time, supercomputer-based, simulation environment.
- FloEFD contributed to the design of a championship winning skeleton sled.
- Symscape’s presentation at the GPU Technology Conference illustrates that MPI acceleration of OpenFOAM is still faster than GPU acceleration.
- Code_Saturne 3.0 was released with a long list of updated features.
Science
- Why Reynolds Number is important in CFD, from the Leap Australia CFD blog.
- After reading this, I believe overcurvature is why my Slinky never lasted more than a day.
- This 30 minute video provides an introduction to the Lattice Boltzmann technique as implemented in the open-source CFD code Palabos.
- Rayleigh’s noncoalescing jets of liquid are explained by velocity and air entrainment.
Reading & Other News
- Spring 2013 issue of MSC Software’s Simulating Reality
- Volume VII, Issue 1 of ANSYS Advantage
- Agenda of this June’s NAFEMS World Congress
- Exa‘s financial results for the most recent fiscal year showed a 6% growth to $48.9 million. The company is optimistic about the coming year because the results of their R&D investments should be coming to fruition soon, including a cloud-based product currently in beta testing.
- By my count there are now three major annual events related to OpenFOAM:
- The 1st ESI-OpenCFD OpenFOAM User Conference, 24-26 Apr 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
- The 8th International OpenFOAM Workshop, 11-14 Jun, Jeju, Korea
- The Open Source CFD International Conference (date and location of 2013 event unknown)
Science?
Cornell grad students and professors have shown that the behavior of metal heads in a mosh pit is very similar to the motion of gas molecules including not just the randomness but behaviors such as a circular vortex and lane formation.
So the next time you go see Lemmy and Motorhead you can write it off as research.
I may just be old, but I think I am proud I don’t know who “Lemmy and Motorhead” are!
Steve, you might not know Motorhead because you’re young! 😉 Motorhead goes back to the late 70s and Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister is the lead singer. (Yup, I listened to them while growing up 🙂 ) I gather he’s still alive and playing. LOL, I’m trying to picture John with long hair and headbanging.
John, liked the bit about the cylinder. Well, I liked everything.
I bet Steve knows Bob Wills and maybe Carrie Underwood.
I suppose we could find a country line dancing study but that might be more about crystallography than gas dynamics.
The 2013 Open Source CFD International conference date is 24-25th October, Hamburg Germany
Thanks for the reminder, Darrin.