This Week in CFD

Special “I Wish I Had More Time” Edition

OpenFOAM was used as part of the simulation of flow through air filter bags. Image from engineerlive.com. Click image for article.

OpenFOAM was used as part of the simulation of flow through air filter bags. Image from engineerlive.com. Click image for article.

  • Pointwise asks you to complete a brief survey on your use of CAD geometry for meshing. A small thank-you gift is involved.
  • Onshape’s Jon Hirschtick shares thoughts on the history of CAD as it changed from serving the elite to serving us all.
  • Speaking of Onshape, they launched an education plan.
  • NVIDIA calls their recently announced $129,000, 170 teraflop DGX-1 a “supercomputer in a box” [as opposed, I assume, to “in a room.”].
  • Here’s a link to NASA Langley’s Turbulence Modeling Resource.
  • The 5th Workshop on Grid Generation for Numerical Computations (Tetrahedron V) will be held 4-5 July 2016 at the University of Liege [sorry for the lack of diacriticals] in Belgium.
  • ANSYS now offers a pay-per-use license.
  • Here’s a blog post about a couple of the industry analyst presentations at COFES.
  • All three sessions of the Friendship Systems and Simscale webinar on F-1 aerodynamics are now online.
  • GrabCAD has a nice write-up on 3D printed parts and meshing.
  • Last week at COFES I saw a demo of Sandia’s work on topology optimization and it’s as close to magic as I’ve seen on a computer.
  • Speaking of COFES, Kubotek launched their new 3D geometry kernel, KCM.
  • NASA’s University Leadership Initiative seeks academics to partner on aeronautics research.
  • Speaking of NASA, Langley Research Center seeks to hire a Research Computer Scientist for CFD.
  • Flow Science blogged about simulating Pelton turbines.
  • Documentation for the Wind-US CFD code was updated.
Red Bull Racing describes their use of ANSYS' CFD Technology. Image from themanufacturer.com. Click image for article.

Red Bull Racing describes their use of ANSYS’ CFD Technology. Image from themanufacturer.com. Click image for article.

Modern Art for Your Inner Child

MondriPong is a playable Pong game set within the landscape of a Piet Mondrian painting. Enjoy.

MondriPong (see link above). Image from Colossal.

MondriPong (see link above). Image from Colossal.

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