CAD & More

• After 400,000 hours of usage, over 700,000 files exported, and more usage, Onshape is now out of beta.
• ITI, the CADfix (and more) people, have rebranded.

What can a tet possibly have in common with a 14-faced polyhedron? Click the image to find out.

Events & More

• You have until 04 January to get in on SimScale’s Go With the Flow Challenge and have a shot at winning computing time, Amazon gift cards, and more.
• The inaugural UK Fluids Conference has been scheduled for 7-9 September 2016 at Imperial College London. Call for papers will open on 01 February with abstracts due 18 April.
• Tetrahedron V, the 5th Workshop on Grid Generation for Numerical Computations, will be held 4-5 July 2016 in Liege, Belgium. [Note: This event was added to this post after publication.]
• Here’s a summary report from [Supercomputing] SC 2015.
• According to HBR, we should watch out for quantum computing in 2016.
• AIAA’s new Associate Fellows include several CFDers. Know anyone on this list?

CFD simulation of the hydrodynamics of high performance offshore boat hulls from a study by the Sailing Yacht Research Foundation. Image from Scuttlebutt Sailing News. Click image for article.

Software & More

• Aerosoft released GASP Version 5.2.2 including many new output options and more.
• New features in ParaView 5.0 include a lot of interaction and selection tools, point probes, and more.
• The just-released version of FloEFD includes meshing improvements, a transient solver, and more.
• Altair’s HPC workload manager, PBS Pro, will have an open source licensing option in 2016.
• Vero released PartXplore, a lightweight CAD viewer and interrogation tool.

Visualization & More

Hard core computer scientists will be excited to learn of a new, fast algorithm for solving the graph isomorphism problem. Image from Quanta Magazine. Click image for article.

• Best of the visualization web for October 2015 and November 2015.
• Visual News lists their top 10 visualizations of 2015.
• While supplies last you can request an Intelligent Light 2016 calendar with twelve months of beautiful visualizations.
• Intelligent Light launched FieldView 16 with faster data import, lower memory usage, and more.
  • [And by more I mean] FieldView 16 is also now the first CFD tool with 3D PDF report generation.

More Grids

I had no idea painter Brice Marden had created grid paintings until I watched a video last night of him talking about his work and the work of other painters whom he admires. I knew about his geometric forms and “swirls” (my term) but his grid works are new to me. Now they’re new [probably] to you too.

Brice Marden, Grid II, 1971. Click image for source.