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Tag Archives: optimization
ORCA Surfboard Goes From CFD to the Waves
Do you remember our case study from a couple of years ago where our friends at CRAFT Tech used Pointwise as part of a tool chain to optimize the performance of a big wave surfboard? Well that surfboard, called ORCA, … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Hardware, Software
Tagged aerodyamics, CRAFT Tech, CRUNCH CFD, optimization, Pointwise, surf board
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I’m James Linfield and This Is How I Mesh
I grew up on the south coast of the UK, in a small sleepy village called Storrington in West Sussex. Not too far away from the seaside town of Brighton (that’s where I say I’m from when people, quite rightly, … Continue reading
Posted in People & Places
Tagged 3d mouse, adjoint, aerospace, ai, artificial intelligence, Asana, atom, CFD, coffee, compressible flows, engine, engineering, Fluent, food, Gambit, grid generation, linux, machine learning, mechanical engineering, NAFEMS, OpenFOAM, OpenFOAM Workshop, optimization, paper, ParaView, Pointwise, putty, SU2, This Is How I Mesh, turbulence, uav
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This Week in CFD
Jobs, internships, and events seem to be the order of the week with lots of hiring and lots of announced CFD and meshing conferences. From the long-read department comes several articles on shape optimization, open-source, and geometry modeling issues. And … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Events, Hardware, News
Tagged 3DCIC, adaptation, CAESES, CFDEM, CREATE, EMC3, ESI, FLOW-3D, geometry models, GridPro, high order, jobs, MeshTrends, OpenFOAM, optimization, overset, Pegasus, Pointwise, SALOME, Salome_Meca, SimScale, SU2, turbulence, USNCCM, virtual reality, visualization
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Mesh Morphing for Automotive Shape Design Optimization
Next week Claudio Pita and I will be in the Motor City attending the SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition. There we will be presenting the work we performed in cooperation with Mark Landon of Optimal Solutions where we have … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged automotive, DrivAer, hybrid, morphing, OpenFOAM, Optimal Solutions Software, optimization, Pointwise, SAE World Congress, Sculptor, T-Rex, unstructured
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Impressions of the 10th OpenFOAM Workshop
As a new OpenFOAM user I had the opportunity to attend the 10th OpenFOAM Workshop held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pointwise participated in the workshop in a variety of ways: we sponsored it, we worked … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged automation, automotive, dirty CAD, grid generation, grid quality, Helyx, meshing, museum, OpenFOAM, optimization, Pointwise
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I’m Travis Carrigan and This Is How I Mesh
Have you ever been to the Idaho Potato Museum? If not, you should go. They’ll give you a free potato at the end of the tour…or at least they used to. I’ve been there several times. The museum sits in … Continue reading
Posted in People & Places
Tagged aeroacoustics, AIAA Aviation, automotive, Caelus, CFD, CFD Online, Cygwin, DrivAer, EnSight, FEA, food, Glyph, higher order elements, Let's Talk Meshing, linux, OpenFOAM, optimization, ParaView, Pointwise, Raspberry Pi, Sage, Sales, Sales Guy, SU2, technical sales engineer, Tecplot, This Is How I Mesh, tips, Turbomachinery CFD, Twitter, UTA, vim, webinar, wind turbine, Windows
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AIAA SciTech Recap
With everyone home and all caught up with work, now is probably a good time to sit back, relax, and reflect on AIAA SciTech (Science and Technology Forum and Exposition) which was held a couple weeks ago in National Harbor, Maryland. … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged aeroacoustics, AIAA, DARCorp, EUROLIFT, OpenFOAM, OpenVSP, optimization, overset, Phoenix Integration, store separation, T-Rex
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