Software
- CRAFT Tech released CRUNCH CFD 3.1 with surface roughness, a flamelet model, and more.
- CD-adapco released STAR-CD and es-ice v4.24.
- Are you a student who enjoys CAD? You could be an Onshape Campus Rep.

FLOW-3D CFD solution for a proposed power station on the Lillooet River. Image from HydroWorld.com. Click image for article.
Reading
- From whom should you learn OpenFOAM? CFD Direct offers 10 questions you should ask your OpenFOAM trainer.
- Exascale computing (as called for by the CFD Vision 2030 Study) will require programmers and their algorithms to keep up with advances in hardware. Read more from HPCWire.
Events
- The International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing will be held on 11-13 April 2016 in San Antonio, Texas.
- CFD workflows for Formula 1 simulations built with FieldView were the subject of a recent presentation in Tokyo.
Mesh Jewelry
Designer Melissa Borrell is inspired by many things and technology is one of them. How else can you explain these two items from her pop-out collection: earrings (left) and a necklace (right) that are clearly unstructured meshes.
Bonus: Lovers of unstructured meshes will love playing with Node Garden.
P.S. This abbreviated version of TWiCFD brought to you a severe storm that blew through in the midst of writing.