8 Questions with Steve Karman
Dr. Steve Karman is a professor in the Graduate School of Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a researcher at the SimCenter: National Center for Computational...
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J. P. Abelanet is the owner of Basis Software, a small company located near Fort Worth, Texas that specializes in computational geometry products and services. The primary product is called GE – A...
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CEI and FEA CEI, makers of the CFD postprocessor EnSight, are running a survey to “gauge the FEA postprocessing competition” with the goal of improving EnSight for use with FEA. The survey runs through...
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FieldView 14 is Coming Intelligent Light announced the availability of a sneak peak at FieldView 14, the upcoming release of their CFD postprocessing and visualization software. Comparing multiple...
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Learn More About the Ciespace Platform Jeff Waters interviews John Buchowski, VP of Product Management at Ciespace, about CFD in the cloud and more specifically the fact that Ciespace is a platform not...
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Again With The Bullets CFD solution for the Bloodhound SSC. Image from NASA Tech Briefs. The big business news in the CAE world this week is ANSYS’ acquisition of SpaceClaim for $85 million. If you’re...
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Applications Argonne National Labs shares this video of a 50-million cell, high fidelity CFD simulation of a diesel engine. You can read more about it here. The Maritime Research Institute of the...
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High Performance Computing & Cloud NAFEMS asks that you participate in their survey on use of HPC in engineering simulation. The survey’s results will be revealed at the 2015 NAFEMS World Congress....
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Software My nomination for best new CFD code name of the year so far: Chombo-Crunch. Code_Saturne 4.0 is now available for download. Berkeley researchers introduced CFD and reactive transport code...
View ArticleThe Future of Engineering Software, COFES 2015
2015 marks the third year I’ve been fortunate enough to have been invited to COFES, the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software . Thank you, Cyon Research. One way to look at COFES is this:...
View Article5 Questions to Ask When Shopping for a Grid Generator
Grid generation is the most important step in the CFD process. Without a grid, you cannot even perform a CFD simulation. Even meshless methods require a grid, also known as a lattice. Grid generation...
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Visualization FieldView 15.1 is now available and includes surface flow lines and animated particle paths. EnSight 10.1.5.a is now available and includes threaded pathlines. A special thanks to our...
View ArticleImpressions From the Third OpenVSP Workshop
The use of computer-aided design (CAD) software is particularly ill-suited during conceptual design where product development tends to be very open-ended and large changes to the geometry definition...
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Pointwise Pointwise’s Dr. Steve Karman will participate in a webinar hosted by the Centre for Modeling and Simulation (CFMS) on 21 September to discuss high order CFD technologies. Dr. Peter Vincent...
View ArticleThe Connector: Sep/Oct 2015 Issue
University of South Florida Races with Pointwise The University of South Florida’s Formula SAE racing team, USF Racing, placed 6th overall out of more than 80 teams competing at the Formula SAE...
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Lucky “Friday the 13th“ Edition Contests, Competitions, and Awards CD-adapco announced Wian van der Merwe of Aerotherm as the winner of their 2016 Calendar Competition for his visualization of the...
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Software simulationHub is a new, cloud-based CFD application. Materialise released Magics20 for preparing geometry for 3D printing. CCE released free CAD viewer, EnSuite-View. FFT released Actran 16...
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CAD & More After 400,000 hours of usage, over 700,000 files exported, and more usage, Onshape is now out of beta. ITI, the CADfix (and more) people, have rebranded. What can a tet possibly have in...
View ArticleI’m Dr. Michael G. Remotigue and This Is How I Mesh
Dr. Michael Remotigue, Engineering Specialist on the Product Development Team. I grew up in Fairfield, OH, a bedroom community of Cincinnati. I’m the second oldest of four brothers. My father is...
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*** Late Edition *** Must Read Despite being a post from nearly two years ago, Lessons from the History of CFD is well worth reading today. Its origin was the 2013 symposium Celebrating the Careers of...
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