News Briefs

• On the Life Upfront podcast, Jeff Waters interviews Rich Smith, the man behind affordable CFD – Caedium from Symscape.
• If you haven’t already seen this video demonstration of extracting 3D editable objects from a single photo please watch it now.
• Moldex3D users can win prizes and acclaim by submitting their work to the 2013 Moldex3D Global Innovation Talent Award.
• The September 2013 issue of ANSYS eNews is available.
• You can call it “the cloud” or you can call it SaaS (software – or simulation – as a service) but either way Desktop Engineering delves into Ciespace CFD.
• On another cloud-related note, Desktop Engineering writes about the UberCloud CAE Experiment.
• COMSOL shares their thoughts on turbulence modeling.

Software

• Beta CAE released v14.1.3 of their pre- and post-processing suite.
• ESTECO released modeFRONTIER 4.5.
• Tecplot ChemBond, a new tool for visualizing quantum theory of atoms in molecules, is the subject of an APS paper about making stronger metals.
• STAR-CCM+ v8.06 will feature their Simulation Assistant, a tool for capturing your organization’s best practices.

Events

• Chalmers University is offering a course on Applied LES, DES, and URANS for Industry on 23-25 October in Gothenburg.
• CD-adapco’s STAR Korean Conference 2013 will be held 5-6 December in Seoul.
• Friendship Systems’ User’s Meeting 2013 will be held 15-16 October in Berlin.
• ISC Cloud Computing Conference 2013 will be held 23-24 September in Heidelberg.

Hearts on Fire

To make up for today’s rather spartan edition of This Week in CFD, I share with you Rob Prideaux’s Smoke & Fire. Through trickery in the real world (as opposed to PhotoShop) Rob is able to shape fire in ways you wouldn’t think possible.

Rob Prideaux’s Fire & Smoke. Image from Laughing Squid.