This Week in CFD

Applications and Software

Converge CFD simulation of the oral plume left by someone walking down an aircraft aisle. Image from Machine Design.

Converge CFD simulation of the oral plume left by someone walking down an aircraft aisle. Image from Machine Design.

  • Best CFD blog article title EVAR: Because No One Likes Sand in their Crack. Kudos CD-adapco.
  • Via the CFD World blog comes news of PyFR, “an open-source Python based framework for solving advection-diffusion type problems on streaming architectures using the Flux Reconstruction approach of Huynh.”
  • Here’s an article about the use of Converge CFD for aircraft interiors. See image above.
From Sruli Recht studio comes the jacket any serious CFDer will wear. Click image for source.

From Sruli Recht studio comes the jacket any serious CFDer will wear. Click image for source.

Meshing

  • Scan & Solve for Rhino isn’t CFD but the implications for meshing are interesting.
  • Speaking of Rhino and meshing, KUBRIX BlockRanger is now available for hex meshing.
  • In the recently release Pointwise V17.2 you’ll find the ability to rapidly generate hybrid meshes with near-wall hex layers.
  • FLOW-3D v11 will have new tools for checking their FAVOR meshing technique.
  • The meshing contest geometry for the International Meshing Roundtable 2014 is the Tower Bridge.
This year's International Meshing Roundtable meshing contest is London's Tower Bridge.

This year’s International Meshing Roundtable meshing contest is London’s Tower Bridge. (Image from Pointwise)

More Applications

  • In this concise summary of the limitations placed on aerodynamic design of Formula 1 cars we learn that CFD is limited to 30 teraflops, a reduction of 25% from the previous year.
  • If you want to draft off another swimmer it seems that if you remain about 6 meters behind another swimmer your drag coefficient will be 84% of theirs. (From the Journal of Sports and Medicine.)
Pressure contours simulated using CFD of swimmers utilizing drafting. Click image for source.

Pressure contours simulated using CFD of swimmers utilizing drafting. Click image for source.

Events and Validation

  • DEVELOP3D Live is an event for CAD junkies focused on “Interesting stories, about Interesting People who design interesting stuff – and the digital tools they use to do it.” There’s a nice write-up of this year’s event on the enigmatically named The CAD Setter Out blog in which we read that cloud = collaboration.
  • Prof. Lorena Barba’s presentation on “The Reliability of Computational Research Findings: Reproducible Research, Uncertainty Quantification, and Verification & Validation” is available online, including slides and video recording. Conclusion: knowing and publishing uncertainty is the key to reproducibility.
  • On a related note, Sandia National Labs is hosting a V&V Challenge Workshop in advance of the ASME V&V Symposium.

Business

  • If you’re interested in keeping up with how PTC’s doing, Monica Schnitger shares info through March. [You will read about IoT, the internet of things. If you haven’t already heard that term, you’ll likely be hearing a lot about it in the future from a variety of sources.]
  • Here’s the best of the visualization web for March 2014.
  • Marin in the Netherlands has an opening for an Applied CFD Specialist.
  • Boeing thinks Altair is excellent and awarded them as such.
  • CIMdata thinks ANSYS’ acquisition of SpaceClaim substantially strengthens their products.

Grid Painting

Artist Ann Thornycroft is very aware of the inter-relationship of humans and nature. Unlike other painters who insist that every horizontal line isn’t the horizon and every vertical line isn’t a person, for her the horizontal line represents nature while the vertical lines are human figures.

Ann Thornycroft, Blue Grid, 2011

Ann Thornycroft, Blue Grid, 2011

Bonus: Combining sound and fire is just insane – Pyro Board.

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1 Response to This Week in CFD

  1. CFD Trader says:

    Thank you for the news of PyFR. It’s a very good framework with top precision. And – the most importan thing – its open source. Have a nice day!

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