A new year calls for new software releases and new job openings and that’s what you’ll find in this week’s smattering of CFD news. For those of you with time to read, there’s material on geometry modeling, web-based UI development, turbulence modeling, adaptive mesh generation, and more. Shown here are CFD results for transmission stators.

News

• The call for papers is open for the NAFEMS World Congress 2021 (abstracts due 16 April).
• Holzmann CFD‘s updated and expanded website provides an OpenFOAM Knowledge Base and much more.
• Speaking of new websites, Intelligent Light‘s has been updated. Check it out.
• CFD and GPU hackathons.
• Here’s Visualizing Data’s best of the visualization web for October 2020.

Software

• What’s new in Isight R2021x.
• What’s new in Abaqus R2021x.
• There are new tutorials for OnScale Solve.
• Esgee released OverViz v2.4.1.
• CCE released a beta version of EnSuite-Cloud ReVue for CAD collaboration.
• CAD Exchanger 3.9.1 was released.
• And what’s new in Simcenter 3D 2021.1.

Jobs

• The National University of Singapore seeks a Research Fellow for flow modeling of offshore structures using SPH.
• A postdoc is available for the CFD of fishing nets.
• Koenigsegg has an opening for a CFD engineer.
• Siemens seeks a CAE meshing engineer.

Reading

• Pointwise published the white paper Preparation of Geometry Models for Mesh Generation and CFD for those interested in some background on the relevant technology.
• I know I’ve posted this before but it’s important to share. Progress Toward the 2030 Vision of CFD gives an overview of progress made in CFD during 2020.
• Alberto Passalacqua shares some of his experiences putting a web-based UI on CFD codes.
• Read all about 30 years of modeling from Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research.
• Onshape predicts what’s coming in product design during 2021. #4 Work from home is here to stay and the cloud will be a bigger part of that going forward.
• It’s not CFD, but this case study from [not Rob] Schneider Electric shows what’s possible with democratization.
• Here’s a cool article on adaptive mesh refinement in STAR-CCM+.

CFD for…

• modernizing marine trawlers.
• simulating wind farms with machine learning.
• (fluids, not CFD) jellyfish propulsion.
• lidar anemometry.
• medical devices.
• aftermarket transmission stators for race vehicles. (See image at top.)
• marine research vessels.
• fire testing nuclear packages.
• drill bits.

Clean Meshing

Our friends at nTopology have quite a sense of humor because when I first saw their “Employees Must Clean Meshes” stickers I literally LOLd. (And I didn’t even notice “Death to STL” below the image.)

And they’re a nice bunch of people too because when I shared online that I loved that sticker, look what arrived in the mail a few weeks later.

Now if I just knew someone I could share some of these with.

Update: Reworded the last sentence to clarify the meaning.