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This Week in CFD

It’s Friday and time to get #NavierStoked. (I warned you that I’d steal that.) This week’s theme seems to be food with three food-specific CFD applications including the Application of the Week. (The other applications may be edible but not … Continue reading

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I’m Charles Schnake and This Is How I Mesh

I grew up in the woods just outside of a small logging town called Philomath, Oregon. My friends and I would run around the forest building tree forts, playing paintball, and getting poison oak. My father was an engineer by … Continue reading

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This Week in CFD

ASSESS The ASSESS Initiative‘s website is now live. Quoting from their website, ASSESS “is a broad reaching multi-industry initiative with a primary goal to facilitate a revolution of enablement that will vastly increase the availability and utility of engineering simulation, … Continue reading

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This Week in CFD

Software There are some very cool charting and graphing features coming in STAR-CCM+ v12. What they call Chart Highlighting includes hover effects, leader lines, multi-series editing, and more. Tecplot’s SZL technology (for smaller files and faster performance) has been integrated … Continue reading

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Why Cartesian Grids Are Good

The fine folks at Mentor Graphics publish a lot of good white papers. One of their recent ones is is How to Choose an Effective Grid System for CFD Meshing. I think it’s mis-titled. The paper should be called Why … Continue reading

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