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3D Scanning of Hangar Produces Aerospace Art Boeing engineers using a handheld scanner have produced 3D scans of their factory in Everett, Washington with the goal of producing maps that robots might...
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New Forums at CFD Online While not all new this week, the folks at CFD Online have added several discussion forums recently. CFD Freelancers – If you’re looking for short-term help on a CFD project...
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Applications Velcro and Tang may be the best examples of commercialization of NASA’s technology, but an article in NASA Spinoff describes research on reducing the aerodynamic drag of tractor trailers...
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FlowKit’s CEO on CFD, LBM, and the Cloud On the Life Upfront blog you’ll find a two part interview with Jonas Latt, CEO of FlowKit. FlowKit provides consulting services for the open source code...
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Software & Applications Here’s part 4 of how to perform pump cavitation analysis in CFX, this time focusing on automation techniques. This brief video illustrates the effect of flow rate on the...
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News in Brief In case you missed it here and other places, a researcher claims to proven the existence of a strong and unique solution to the Navier-Stokes equations. Only time [and people much smarter...
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Special Easter Weekend Edition Must read: Now available via the NASA technical reports server is CFD Vision 2030 Study: A Path to Revolutionary Computational Aerosciences. Good advice: How engineers...
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Software and Events Dassault Systemes created 3D models of WWII scenes for an upcoming PBS documentary for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Code_Saturne version 3.3 is now available. Here’s...
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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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Pointwise User Group Meeting 2014 The Pointwise User Group Meeting 2014 will soon be here – 29-30 October in Anaheim, California. To celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary the event is free – but you...
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The Big Picture ENGINEERING.com presents their summary of the recent Analysis, Simulation, and Systems Engineering Software Summit (ASSESS) which includes The desire to leverage simulation in the...
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I’m Claudio Pita and This Is How I Mesh
Claudio Pita, Senior Engineer on the Technical Support Team. One of my favorite series on Lifehacker is called How I Work. In this series, the team interviews people from around the world to learn...
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Events The agenda for next month’s COFES (Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) has been announced and includes 2.5 hours dedicated to reviewing and moving forward with the issues identified...
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I’m Nick Wyman and This Is How I Mesh
Nick Wyman, Director of the Applied Research team. I received a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. My graduate work focused on the use of CFD...
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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...
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I’m Zach Davis and This Is How I Mesh
Zach Davis, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. I’m on my way to becoming a versatile meshing expert with Pointwise. Structured, unstructured, overset, hybrid…you name it, and I’ll...
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I’m Travis Carrigan and This Is How I Mesh
Travis Carrigan, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. 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...
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I’m Philip Fackler and This Is How I Mesh
Philip Fackler, Intern on the Product Development Team. Being the son of a man who has served as a pastor and missionary in several places, there isn’t a place I would call my hometown. The closest...
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News It seems that President Obama is also a fan of the CFD Vision 2030 Study as it is cited in the Whitehouse’s recent announcement of the executive order creating the National Strategic Computing...
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I’m Michael Mirsky and This Is How I Mesh
Michael Mirsky, Product Development Engineer OK, I’ve got to come clean. I don’t rigorously mesh that often. As part of the product development team, the grids I spend most of my time with are those...
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