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This Week in CFD

Welcome to this holiday weekend edition of This Week in CFD. For those of you outside the U.S., Monday is Labor Day when we celebrate contributions and achievements of American workers. We do this by not working. But CFD never … Continue reading

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Recombination of Voxel Transition Cells for OpenFOAM Meshes

Pointwise V18.3 introduced a voxel capability (hex-core) that uses regular hexahedra instead of unstructured tetrahedra in regions away from the geometry model. The space between the final T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) front and the farfield topology (see Figure 1) is … Continue reading

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This Week in CFD

This week’s CFD news begins with a new entrant in the commercial CFD software field, Azore CFD. I hope our academic readers will read and comment on an article about requirements for CFD software for academic use. And although applied … Continue reading

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Turbulence Model Influence on Flow in the FDA Benchmark Blood Pump

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used to influence decisions early in the design process. In order to assess the state-of-the-art of CFD and its predictive capability for medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed two benchmark … Continue reading

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This Week in CFD

Are things starting to return to normal? This week’s CFD news includes a live, in-person event next February and three job openings. There’s some really cool CFD software news including Karalit’s IB code and the integration of Fluent with ANSYS’ … Continue reading

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