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My SGI Boneyard
I have a special place in my heart for Silicon Graphics. Gridgen was originally developed for a VAX but shortly thereafter it was the first program ported to the first SGI workstation (a model 2400)...
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How Many Monitors Does It Take to Make a CFD Mesh?
Taking the meaning of large CFD meshes in a completely new direction, someone at Pointwise created this 4-monitor setup at home for running Pointwise at 3,200 x 2,100 pixel resolution. It seems like...
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Printing Grids in 3D
Those of you who attended the 2011 Pointwise User Group Meeting may remember that our company president, John Chawner, mentioned during his closing statements how nice it would be to have the ability...
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Stanford Released SU2 Version 1.1 SU2 Workflow. Image courtesy of Stanford Univ. Stanford University released Version 1.1 of their SU2 (Stanford University Unstructured) open-source CFD code. New in...
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Isogeometric Research Wins Award Displacement plot for a wheel analyzed using Schillinger’s isogeometric method. Image from Schillinger’s paper. Research on isogeometric analysis won the 6th John...
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A Visit to the Computer History Museum
SAGE Air Defense Console The International Meshing Roundtable (www.imr.sandia.gov) held their annual awards banquet at the Computer History Museum (www.computerhistory.org) in Mountain View, California...
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Engineering + Art = Education For you readers who are in academia, I recommend this article titled Solid Edge Used to Combine Art and Engineering at Utah State. It describes a collaborative...
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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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Taking the Expert out of CFD Digital Manufacturing Report buried the essence of their article CFD for the Rest of Us in the very last paragraph where Intelligent Light’s Steve Legensky is quoted “[CFD]...
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NAFEMS Professional Simulation Engineer NAFEMS launched their Professional Simulation Engineer (PSE) competency certification and tracking system at their recent NAFEMS World Congress in Salzburg....
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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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High Stakes CFD Challenge It’s difficult to imagine higher stakes for CFD accuracy than predicting whether or not an intracranial aneurysm will rupture. But that’s exactly the basis for a CFD challenge...
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Intelligent Light Visits Open Source Intelligent Light, makers of the FieldView CFD postprocessing software, announced the receipt of a $1 million phase 2 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to...
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Software Stanford’s SU2 open-source CFD code is now maintained on GitHub. Visit the repository here. CEI announced that EnSight now supports TRK (particle track files) from STAR-CCM+. (Be sure to watch...
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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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Back When Meshes Were Carved From Wood
Do you remember the olden days when our forefathers, lacking computers, had to carve their meshes from wood? Neither do I. So I’m not sure what I was thinking when I ordered a sample pack of Wood-Skin....
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Software & Hardware simFlow version 1 was released. Cloud-based CFD solver Ciespace gets a nice write-up on Engineering.com but the closing statements are pretty damning, especially this one: “If...
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Software Software Cradle released SC/Tetra 11. COMSOL released Multiphysics 4.4. WindSim made their solver more accurate for wind farm simulations such that annual energy production can be improved...
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Applications SC/Tetra was used to compute the aerodynamic performance of vehicles in the video game Gran Turismo 6. See the link below. Cradle North America’s SC/Tetra was used to compute the...
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Software NVIDIA maintains a CFD resource page on their website with many technical reports and code samples about GPU-accelerated CFD. The former Belmont Technology is now Onshape, “a venture-funded...
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