Less Than Special Edition

I’m travelling, so here’s an unprioritized news dump. (OK, not totally unprioritized. I put the chocolate picture first because candy.)

COMSOL simulation of chocolate flow in a Nestle depositor. Image from Desktop Engineering. See link below.

• Simulating chocolate flow
• A new way to make technical presentations at conferences. (Registration required via ACM)
• ParaView 5.0.1 release notes
• Goal plots in SolidWorks Flow Simulation
• ANSYS webinar on pumps
• Simulating gas burners
• Episode 5 of Talking CFD features Patrick Hanley
• CFD for synthetic jets
• FEM News is now available in English
• Learn CFD in Matlab in 2 weeks for free
• Use of CFD to study the thermal/fluid environment’s effects on preservation of cultural artifacts
• Triangle meshes and surveying in civil engineering
• Open VOGEL is an open-source framework for aerodynamic calculations
• Read this prediction that 2016 is the beginning of the end for engineering workstations, to be replaced by – wait for it – the cloud and SaaS.

Wide Open Mesh

The video for the Chemical Brothers’ song Wide Open features dancer Sonoya Mizuno being slowly replaced by a 3D printed mesh. The range of technology required to create this is mind boggling – and then add music and dance to the mix. Be certain to watch the “how it was made” video.

Some workplaces may consider this NSFW so be warned. I watched it at work so…

Screen capture from the “how it was made” video for the Chemical Brothers song Wide Open. See links above.