Applications

SC/Tetra was used to compute the aerodynamic performance of vehicles in the video game Gran Turismo 6. See the link below.

• Cradle North America’s SC/Tetra was used to compute the aerodynamic performance of the vehicles in the video game Gran Turismo 6.
• From the Journal of Aerosol Science comes CFD Simulation of Total and Regional Fiber Deposition in Human Nasal Cavities. [Trust me, had there been a decent image from this study I would’ve included it.]
• Intelligent Light shares a white paper on Red Bull Racing‘s use of CFD.
• Keep up with your Formula 1 regulation changes with this video.
• Must watch video from 1988 showcasing CFD capabilities at NASA Ames Research Center.

Software

• Read all about PyFR, an open source framework for solving advection-diffusion problems.
• Desktop Engineering reports that Altair’s partner alliance program grew by 45% and now includes 40 participants.
• UFO-CFD v5 is now available.
• Beta CAE released ANSA v14.2.3.
• If you use the DPLR CFD code and Tecplot you might be interested in this macro developed specifically for the two.

Hardware

• NVIDIA announced the worldwide availability of their GRID Virtual GPU technology. [This announcement is so full of jargon I really don’t understand what they’re talking about. But I’m certain it’s good.]
• IBM announced a new world record in compute performance for a CFD simulation. As shown in the figure below, simulating the cavitation collapse of 15,000 bubbles used 6.4 million threads on an IBM BlueGene computer achieve a throughput of 14.4 Petaflops.

A world record 14.4 Pflops performance was achieved for a CFD simulation of cavitation collapse. See link above.

Events

• You have until 15 February to submit your application for the Computational Science for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSURE) program for summer 2014.
• NAFEMS issued a call for papers for a special issue of the NAFEMS International Journal of CFD Case Studies “to showcase CFD used by designers.” Submissions are due in January 2014.
• Visualizing Data shares the best of the visualization web for November 2013 and the top 10 visualization developments during the last half of 2013.
• COMSOL has made available the CFD presentations from their 2013 user conference.
• CD-adapco reports that attendance at their STAR Asian Conferences set a new record.

Tears Are the Silent Language of Meshing*

Unlike baseball, there’s plenty of crying in mesh generation: tears of frustration, anger, sadness. Artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher wondered whether her sad tears were different from her happy tears. Armed with a camera and a microscope, she set out to answer that question. It seems they’re very different as you can see in Topography of Tears.

Rose-Lynn Fisher, Tears of Grief, 2013

*With apologies to Voltaire.

This is the last issue of This Week in CFD for 2013.
Happy New Year!