This Week in CFD

Software

CEI released EnSight 10.1.2b, a maintenance release of their CFD visualization and postprocessing software.
In another preview of STAR-CCM+ v10.02, CD-adapco shares a video about the software’s ability to capture wakes. See image below.
Beta CAE released ANSA v15.2.3, a maintenance release.
ITI TranscenData released CADfix v10.
GrabCAD has made their CAD collaboration tool, Workbench, available to everyone for free.

CFD is being used to study how pitch plane variations of a floating offshore wind turbine effect power output. See image below.
Here’s a brief write-up of NASA’s use of Exa’s PowerFLOW for studying aircraft noise.
You might have asked yourself when it would be a good time to outsource your CFD. Here’s a list including #4 Partnering to Get Advice from Domain Experts.

Blade vortices off a horizontal axis wind turbine. Image from Wind Power Engineering. See link above.

Have a need for a million core hours of computing time? Enter Charity Engine’s contest and you might be one of three lucky folks who win that prize. Terms and conditions include:
- Must use open source software
- Application must be “ethically sound”
- Use up to 50,000 nodes
- 48 hour to 30 month usage window
Also on the topic of big computers, NCSA is making their supercomputers available for CFD use.
WorldCAD Access shares news about the rise of Linux for CAD software. [I think 40-50% of our installed based for mesh generation is Linux.]
If you take a survey on CAD virtualization you’ll get a copy of the final report of the results.

Screen capture from a video preview of STAR-CCM+ v10.02. See link above.

Siemens PLM is bringing the Femap Symposium Series 2015 to a town [hopefully] near you from San Diego to Chantilly.
The SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling will be held 12-14 October 2015 in Salt Lake City.
At this summer’s AIAA Aviation in Dallas there will be a workshop on the FUN3D CFD code.
While not strictly a CFD job, Syracuse University [my alma mater] seeks a Professor of Practice for the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Alert reader Daniel Bruno fed my fascination with faceted art by sharing a link to Dot Line Wave, an animated GIF that you can’t stop watching.

Maybe he wants me to write a script for Pointwise that will reproduce this.

Dot Line Wave as seen on Bees & Bombs. Click image for link.