This Week in CFD

Special Easter Weekend Edition

Pre- & Post-Processing

The interaction of a rotorcraft with a ship's airwake. CFD by Kestrel, viz by FieldView. Image from Intelligent Light. Click image for article.

The interaction of a rotorcraft with a ship’s airwake. CFD by Kestrel, viz by FieldView. Image from Intelligent Light. Click image for article.

Applications & Reading

Flow and acoustic contours through a recorder. Application by Yamaha, image from the paper cited above.

Flow and acoustic contours through a recorder. Application by Yamaha, image from the paper cited above.

Business & Dollars

  • Exa‘s reported solid growth: 11% in Q4 (Nov-Jan) relative to the previous year, up 13% for the year to $61 million.
  • ANSYS and OCF are selling turnkey CFD clusters in the UK that include Lenovo hardware, Linux OS, and ANSYS CFD.
  • Mentor Graphics’ Keith Hanna shows that the aggregate annual CFD business now exceeds $1 billion.
Screen capture from a video of a combustion simulation. Application by SpaceX, video hosted by Nvidia. Click image for link to original article.

Screen capture from a video of a combustion simulation. Application by SpaceX, video hosted by Nvidia. Click image for link to original article.

Synthesizing Structure & Chaos

That certainly is an apt metaphor for CFD mesh generation: providing a synthetic structure on which the chaos of turbulent fluid motion is to be computed.

Don Sorenson, Untitled #19, 1974

Don Sorenson, Untitled #19, 1974

From his website, artist Don Sorenson‘s work is described thusly:

“Formally, his paintings are amalgams of the polar opposites with which large stylistic swings in the history of art have been described: intellect and emotion, order and randomness, control and accident, structure and chaos, straight line and amorphous color, gloss and matte, literal flatness and illusionistic depth, figure and ground and so forth. It is through a synthesis of art history that Sorenson finds his unique place in the world of contemporary art.”

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2 Responses to This Week in CFD

  1. moonsa says:

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    • John Chawner says:

      Hello, Moonsa.

      Because Abaqus is for solid mechanics and this blog is about fluid dynamics, I’m not certain how much relevant assistance you’ll find but let’s wait and see.

      I personally have never heard of CAD Assistant . com.

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