Special “Just the Facts” Edition

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• The CFD Vision 2030 Study is covered by Hi-Tech CFD in MCAD Cafe with emphasis on turbulence modeling, HPC, and multidisciplinary simulations.
• Two articles on gender and STEM education/careers:
  • The Gender Confidence Gap in STEM Education via ENGINEERING.com
  • Toys for Boys? from Mentor Graphics
• Tech Soft 3D released HOOPS Visualize 2015.
• ASME is now accepting 400+ word abstracts for their 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.
• For those of you old enough to remember back when SGI was the computer to use for CFD, here’s a video called When SGI Ruled the World.
• Design for function, not geometry, with Autodesk’s Project Dreamcatcher.
• Optimizing a golf club‘s drag using CFD.
• The 27th International Conference on Parallel CFD will be held 17-21 May 2015 in Montreal.
• simFlow 2.0 is now available.
• FLOW-3D Version 11 is now available.
• ESI released VA One for vibro-acoustics.
• CFD Support published their newsletter for January 2015.
• Rhino users will probably like a free toolset for aircraft parametric geometry.
• Particle-in-Cell published their first newsletter of 2015.
• Tecplot and KARALIT have been working together on immersed boundary CFD.
• SimScale is making CFD tools available at no cost for academia.
• Intelligent Light released FieldView 15.
• Improving CFD in NX.

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