This Week in CFD

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

Turbulence behind a cylinder in cross flow. Image from Leap Australia.

Turbulence behind a cylinder in cross flow. Image from Leap Australia.

  • 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

Science?

Screen capture of video Mosh Pit Simulation Reveals Crowd Dynamics by Jesse Silverberg et al.

Screen capture of video Mosh Pit Simulation Reveals Crowd Dynamics by Jesse Silverberg et al.

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.

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6 Responses to This Week in CFD

  1. Steve Karman says:

    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.

  2. John Chawner says:

    I suppose we could find a country line dancing study but that might be more about crystallography than gas dynamics.

  3. appliedccm says:

    The 2013 Open Source CFD International conference date is 24-25th October, Hamburg Germany

  4. John Chawner says:

    Thanks for the reminder, Darrin.

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