And we have reached the end of year and the last issue of This Week in CFD for 2021. Many things have changed over the last twelve months and I’m not referring to the pandemic. In April, Pointwise was acquired by Cadence Design Systems and joined the former Numeca team (acquired a couple of months before us) to create the Cadence CFD team. This has given all of us a great opportunity to make new friends and begin new collaborations. Imagine the possibilities by bringing together the geometry modeling and mesh generation experience from both Pointwise and Numeca in a way that elevates both products. But maybe that’s all a bit too myopic, focusing just on what happened to us. CFD is such a vibrant community and hopefully you’ve seen that by what we’ve shared here. This week’s news clears most of my backlog of bookmarks so that we can start fresh in 2022.

Have you heard about Everything for Engineering? It’s an “ecosystem is connecting the world of Engineering Industries, Engineering professionals & Engineering Students to provide an opportunity to Share, Learn & Earn.”

Thangs Workspace (beta) is a “GitHub for 3D models.”

This appears to be an archive of every CFD article from Siemens Simcenter.

Formula SAE is a great opportunity for students to gain experience with simulation (among other things). The Leap CFD blog profiles use of ANSYS’ simulation products by the Edith Cowan University Racing team.

I had a friend in high school who could solve all the brain teasers in the Tau Beta Pi magazine without breaking a sweat. I can’t solve them to this day. So someone else is going to have to grok Pick’s Theorem for me. It says that given a polygon defined by planar lattice points, its area is a function of the number of boundary and interior points.

Beyond PLM delves at length into How PLM Will Expand Into Electronics and Semiconductor Design.

Tim Kruger provides a video Introduction to the Lattice Boltmann Method.

CFD for upgrading your Honda.

As I hope you know, AIAA SciTech (3-7 January, San Diego and online) is coming up soon and several members of the Cadence CFD team will be on the ground in San Diego attending technical sessions and workshops and meeting all our CFD friends after a long conference hiatus. Unfortunately, out of an abundance of caution regarding the Covid-19 situation, we will not have a booth in the exhibit hall nor will we be hosting a reception as originally planned.

I don’t normally find CFD-related news in Harvard Business Review but here it is: How Cloud-Based Supercomputing is Changing R&D.

Here’s Visualizing Data’s best of the visualization web for July 2021 and August 2021 and September 2021.

The 2021 Year in Review issue of AIAA’s Aerospace America magazine is now available. This issue is always my annual favorite and the only one I keep (the print version). You can browse how all the technical committees view progress in their respective areas of expertise including the CFD Vision 2030 integration committee.

Gotta love what GibbonCode (an open source Matlab toolbox) is doing for geometry processing for bio applications.

Hexagon released Cradle CFD 2022.

I think you all know about Gmsh. [Mon dieu, the amount of time saved by not having to type that pesky “e.” Just teasing, Jean-Francois.]

The 3rd preCICE Workshop will be held virtually on 21-24 February 2022. Call for prerecorded presentations is open until 17 January. In case you’ve forgotten, preCICE is “The coupling library for partitioned multi-physics simulations.”

Just a reminder that this year’s International Meshing Roundtable (of which Cadence is a proud sponsor) will be 100% online.

For those of you with trouble sleeping, I was interviewed by Revolution in Simulation (an organization of which Cadence is a proud member).

Flexcompute has an immediate opening for an aerospace CFD senior account executive.

Cadence has an opening for an account technical executive CFD.

AzoreCFD was used to help design a system that prevents train derailments.

Only recently I became aware of alsim Data Cleaning for “mesh preparation.”

Concepts NREC released Agile Engineering Design System 2022.

NASA released their 2022 Science Calendar with some pretty cool images. NASA also made a video summary of their 2021 highlights.

Kitware is updating their branding and shares this video of their brand’s evolution over the years.

CFD for a bridge.

ESI OpenCFD released OpenFOAM v2112. [Rush fans take notice.]

OpenQBMM 8.0.0 for OpenFOAM was released. [Does QBMM have a phonetic pronunciation? Like Cube Ms or something?]

Materialise added Parasolid to Magics.

CFD for optimizing a ship’s trim and thereby saving fuel using Omnis Marine.

ENGYS released HELYX V3.4.0.

FLOW-3D seeks a sales engineer. [OK, c’mon. That’s three tech sales positions open in the CFD world. This can be a cool position for someone who’s a strong CFD advocate.]

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) seeks by 18 February applicants for their Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.

The NAFEMS Americas Conference 2022 will be held in Indianapolis on 21-23 June. Abstracts are due by 15 January.

You have upgraded to the latest version of the Y+ Calculator app for iOS and Android, right?

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 will be in person (Atlanta) and online on 6-9 February.

Koenigsegg Automotive seeks a senior CFD methodology engineer.

The 1st Spanish Fluid Mechanics Conference will be held in Cadiz on 19-22 June 2022. The call for papers will open on 07 January.

CFD Support provides a handy list of open-source software for CAE.

Airflow Sciences has an opening for a fluid dynamic and test engineer.

CFD for gas turbines.

openCFS is “a finite element-based multi-physics modelling and simulation tool.”

See what’s new in CFturbo 2021 R2 and Simcenter Flotherm 2021.2 and COMSOL Version 6.0 and Isight 2022.

CFD for chopper pumps. [Not included only for what was chopped in the original chopper pump.]

The 17th OpenFOAM Workshop will be held on 11-14 July 2022 at Cambridge University. The call for papers is open with a due date of 31 January.

Join on 25 January for the live online course New Features in Pointwise V18.5. The course will cover some of the coolest new features and by that I mean the Flashpoint automation suite including the new Automatic Volume Meshing and updated Automatic Surface Meshing. Registration is now open.

Originally seen in Aviation Week but because that’s behind a firewall, here’s another link to Prof. Martins’ views on how multidisciplinary design optimization can lead to innovation and cost reduction in aerospace engineering.

The ASME Turbo Expo will be in Rotterdam on 13-17 June 2022.

CFD for small modular reactors.

See how Raspberry Pi uses Cadence software to design computers.

Years after it was created, this remains my favorite mesh image. Created in the old Gridgen software by my longtime friend, colleague, and alert reader Erick, it’s a nice way to sign off for the year. This Week in CFD should return sometime in January.

Best wishes to everyone.