Events

• Registration is open for the COMSOL Conference 2015 to be held 07-09 October in Boston.
• The 23rd Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada will be held 07-10 June in Waterloo, Ontario. Abstracts are due 13 March.
• CFD and exascale computing are on the agenda for the 14th International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries to be held 11-13 May in Ulrichshusen, Germany.
• The 14th Meeting on Applied Scientific Computing and Tools will be held 09-12 June 2015 in Rome, Italy.

Software

• I recall posting about ASCII fluid dynamics before but this video has to be seen for the subject to be fully appreciated.
• The Khronos Group released OpenCL 2.1, the standard for cross platform parallel computing.
• In Code_Saturne news…
  • Code_Saturne version 3.3.3 is now available.
  • Presentations from the 2014 user meeting are now available.
  • And registration for the 2015 user meeting is now open. The meeting will be on 02 April in Chatou, France.

CFD in the News

Tweet an image to @Lowpolybot and get back a polygonized version. Click image for instructions. (I mentioned this site a while back but am only now getting around to playing with it.)

• Honda Motorsports applied CFD to the external aerodynamic styling of the Honda Civic Type-R.
• The University of Exeter has an opening for a PhD Studentship in CFD.
• NZ Aerosports is using CFD to design parachutes.
• Bentley Team Dyson Racing used CFD to design their Continental GT3 for this season’s events.
• CFD researcher Dr. Ramesh Agarwal (Washington Univ. St. Louis) will receive the 2015 SAE International Medal of Honor at April’s SAE Congress in Detroit.

Errata

In last week’s post I mangled the attribution of a video showing a FLOW-3D simulation performed by XC Engineering for a Royal Enfield Gear Box. Here is a link to the correct video.

More Interior Decorating

I don’t know where this is nor how it was created but I do know I want to paint our office like this.

This is either an immersive visualization environment for grids or the best interior decorating ever. Click image for source.