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On-Demand Pointwise Training is Now Available

Posted Tue March 31, 2020 @02:07PM

Pointwise announces the launch of a comprehensive online training course, Pointwise Mesh Generation Foundations. This in-depth online course provides a full overview of Pointwise including geometry preparation for meshing, 2D/3D structured, unstructured, and hybrid meshing, T-Rex, and many more features.

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Working From Home - What to Read and Watch

Posted Wed March 25, 2020 @03:28PM

While we all do our part to reduce the effects of COVID-19, here are some free CFD learning resources you can use while out of the office.

Pointwise Blog's This Week in CFD
This well-rounded blog series is updated weekly and the previous installments are worth a re-read if you have time.
Boston University's CFD Course
Video lessions from Prof. Lorena Barba's Introduction to CFD course covers the basic ingredients of CFD.
Nicole Sharp's FYFD
Nicole shares interesting fluid dynamics phenomena and explains their physical basis.
Catch up with what's going on with your favorite toolset
ANSYS Blog
Autodesk Blogs
Dassault Blog
NUMECA Blog
Siemens Blog
SimScale Blog
Tecplot Blog

These are just a few of the resources available - share yours in the comments below.

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Visualization of Higher Order CFD Solutions

Posted Tue February 18, 2020 @05:15PM

Dr. Scott Imlay, Chief Technical Officer, Tecplot, Inc., has begun a blog series on the usefulness of higher order elements for CFD simulation and the challenges of visualizing the results.

In the series, Scott will discuss Tecplot's recent research on the visualization of results from higher-order element computational fluid dynamics (HOE CFD). If you are not one of the practitioners of this specialized form of CFD you may be asking "what?" If so, it’s OK, please just heed the advice of Douglas Adams and "DON’T PANIC!"

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Survey Launched on Mesh Types and Sizes Used for CFD

Posted Mon December 30, 2019 @11:38AM

Pointwise has launched a survey of the CFD market to assess the relative popularity of mesh types and sizes with a goal of assessing where the industry is headed in terms of flow solver and meshing technology.

"I remember in the 1980s that CFD meshes were virtually all multi-block, structured hexahedra," said John Chawner, Pointwise’s president. "Today, a wide variety of mesh types, each with their own relative advantages, serves an even wider variety of flow solver technology. This survey is an attempt to discover where the technology is headed and seek any points of convergence."

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Ideal Hardware Configuration for FLOW-3D Simulation

Posted Tue October 29, 2019 @01:25PM

In a recent Flow Science blog post, Flow Science's IT Manager Matthew Taylor breaks down the different hardware components and suggests some ideal configurations for getting the most out of FLOW-3D products.

The guide includes some well thought out considerations of CPU, memory, storage, and graphics hardware options.

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SoftInWay, Inc. Supports Future Engineers Competing in TEKNOFEST 2019

Posted Tue October 29, 2019 @11:03AM

SoftInWay, Inc. is proud to announce its sponsorship of more than 130 undergraduates and graduates from universities including İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi and Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi who took part in the TEKNOFEST Turbofan Motor Design Competition; offering competitors access to the same software tools used by engineers at major companies such as Boeing, Safran, Orbex, Zunum, and Reaction Engines.

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