Category Archives: Software

This Week in CFD

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

This week’s CFD news includes an amazing simulation of a Mars lander done with FUN3D and a couple of interesting job openings from our friends at Siemens. And from the world of unique CFD applications comes the one shown here … Continue reading →

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Linking Mesh, Geometry, and CFD – MeshLink

Posted on October 9, 2019 by

At next week’s International Meshing Roundtable in Buffalo, I’ll be presenting an update on work being done by Nick Wyman and our Applied Research team on something we call MeshLink. The project is all about devising a method for giving … Continue reading →

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This Week in CFD

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

Lots of applied CFD in this week’s roundup of news and notes. And because it’s Friday, the app featured here is a screen shot from a video of pouring a beer (simulated using FLOW-3D). There’s a long-ish article on turbulence … Continue reading →

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Hybrid, Conformal Meshing for Wind Farm CFD Applications

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

Join Pointwise’s Dr. Claudio Pita for an on-demand webinar presentation of an application of mesh generation to wind farms. Based on work co-authored with Travis Carrigan titled Hybrid Meshing Strategies for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines and Wind Farm Applications at … Continue reading →

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This Week in CFD

Posted on September 27, 2019 by

This week we learned about a new, open-source CFD code called UCNS3D from Cranfield Univ. There’s a survey on engineering computing that I recommend you take. Lots of application stories are linked herein including one about “ambulances for fishermen” which … Continue reading →

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Pointwise V18.3 Now Available

Posted on September 16, 2019 by

Pointwise Version 18.3 is now available for download and production use. New in V18.3 is the ability to fill the interior of an unstructured block with regular hexahedra.

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How Our Interns Spent the Summer of 2019

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

Summer is over and students have returned to school. That includes our summer 2019 interns. But before leaving us, they produced some great work that you’ll all experience for yourself in future versions of Pointwise. From coding to scripting to … Continue reading →

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