Special Xmas Edition

• The Technical University of Denmark is offering on 16 January a workshop on using CFD as a guide to scaling-up tanks and reactors for waste water treatment.
• Google spreadsheets are gaining ground in the PLM space.
• Beta CAE released ANSA and uETA v16.0.2.
• Watch this video with highlights of COMSOL Version 5.2.
• QuickerSim CFD Toolbox is now available from Matlab Central file exchange.
• The abstract deadline for MeshTrends 11 (the symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation held in conjunction with the World Congress on Computational Mechanics) has been extended to 30 December.
• CFD will be used to study the turbulent flow around the helideck of an offshore platform.
• CEI shares this tutorial on the use of EnSight Desktop for Converge.
• Autodesk’s Project Harmony for Moldflow is available for free.

A mesh from Autodesk’s Project Harmony for Simulation Moldflow. Image from Autodesk. See link above.

Visions of Triangles Danced in Their Heads

When you do CFD or meshing long enough, a few nightmares about triangles are to be expected. But this 1966 animation of waltzing triangles is a fantastic dream come true. Enjoy Rene Jodoin’s Notes on a Triangle and be certain to checkout the article’s links to other videos.

Screen capture from Notes on a Triangle by Rene Jodoin from 1966. Image from Visual News. See article link above. Click image for video.

One of the minimalist geometric videos linked to by the article above is Chuck Jones’ Oscar-winning The Dot and The Line. I’m fortunate to own a cel of the original artwork from that film.

P.S. For the record, I wrote this post earlier in the week and scheduled it to automatically post today.