Computational Fluid Dynamics Blogs

Hard to believe it's already December and 11/12ths of a year's worth of CFD is behind us. And with the holidays looming, it's uncertain how many more editions of This Week in CFD are ahead of us. As my Zen friends would say, do not replay...

The newest release of the Cadence Omnis CFD environment is available now and brings better project and file management, more geometry repair tools, multi-block structured meshing and faster Turbo and Open solvers, to name but a few of the advant...

Nick Wyman, Software Engineering Director at Cadence and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), presented a paper where he talks about the different meshing technologies to capture and refine the critica...

Because of last week's Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. and the company's generosity in giving us not 2 but 3 days of rest and relaxation, last week's CFD news is shared today. And quite a cornucopia it is. The American Institute of...

Let's face it. Generating meshes for CFD is a necessary evil. Meshing is a means to an end and yet is said to require 75% of an engineer's time. NASA's CFD Vision 2030 Study called most CFD processes "onerous" and cited meshing&...

The need for automatic mesh generation has never been clearer. The CFD Vision 2030 Study called most applied CFD “onerous” and cited meshing’s inability to generate complex meshes on the first attempt a roadblock. That’s where...

Many of us, especially folks in the U.S. of A., have their eyes on next week because it's the week of the Thanksgiving holiday. My new pal and fellow blogger, Paul McLellan, not only has his eyes on next week but also his stomach as evidenced by ...

The International Automotive Aerodynamics & Thermal Management Conference 2021 is taking place online on November 29-30 and Cadence is thrilled to be its main sponsor. Everyone is welcome to register and it's a great opportunity to hear stra...

As we stand on the precipice of another weekend (the weekend just means there are still two more days to work), we can take stock of recent happenings in the world of CFD. What does this week's roundup include? Coffee and espresso. Formula-1, el...

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Despite this being the Halloween time of year, this week's roundup of CFD news isn't so scary. In fact it's full of good news. Several upcoming events will either be 100% in-person or hybrid. A lot of organizations, including Caden...

Image courtesy of Airbus In the scope of the European Union Horizon2020 CleanSky mission, Cadence is working together with Airbus on the Multi-Site Coupled simulation for Advanced collaborative design (MUSICA) project. ...

Pardon the brief post but I've been negligent in keeping you aware of a great example of how Cadence Pointwise Meshing can serve as a framework upon which an entire automated meshing system can be built. Bombardier's Dr. Amine Ben Haj Al...

Did you that the 18th of October each year is celebrated as Exascale Day? October 18 = 10/18 = 10**18 = 1 quintillion = how many operations an exascale computer can do in a second. By way of comparison, the Milky Way Galaxy is one quintillion k...

For all 30+ years of our history, Cadence has created technologies to design and optimize the performance of electronics and the fabrication of the resulting integrated circuits, chip packages, and printed circuit boards. As a leader in the semicondu...

We will not let today's gray and wet weather in Fort Worth (home of Cadence's Pointwise team) put a damper on the week's CFD news which contains something from the highbrow to the sophomoric. Read about the state of the aerospace industr...

Aircraft that operate from ships at sea must navigate the turbulent airwake environment surrounding the ship in a variety of atmospheric and sea states that can make these operations challenging and risky for pilots. It is important to understand the...

Welcome to another round-up, compilation, summary, compendium, and rehash of CFD news from around the internet. What's inside? How new insight on the source of fluid drag came from quantum mechanics. Examples of applied CFD for the marine, autom...

The newest version of Omnis Marine - Cadence's CFD software specifically designed for Marine Engineers and Naval Architects - is out now. Discover faster seakeeping calculations, coarse mesh initialization for resistance computations, speed-up o...

On this first Friday of October, we're happy to present This Week in CFD to help you kickoff the month and the last calendar quarter of 2021. What's inside? A description of why hexa and tetra finite elements are "frenemies." Verif...

Social media represents just one facet of how we at Cadence CFD communicate with the CFD world. And with the rapid changes we're going through as we grow our team, you're going to see some changes in our social media channels. Here's the ...

Cadence is thrilled to be a Gold Sponsor of the NAFEMS World Congress 2021 (25-29 October, online). If you're not familiar with NAFEMS, their mission is to provide knowledge, international collaboration, and educational opportunities for the use ...

It's Friday meaning it's time for another roundup of CFD news and detritus from the internet. Three highlights to whet your appetite: An article about automobile design makes the point that they are now complex systems versus not t...

The Basics of CFD in 8 Weeks - Free Online Course Learn the basics of CFD in eight classes across eight weeks and gain hands-on experience using commercial, flow-simulation software! Lasting approx. 45 minutes per class, take part in each ...

As it seems to be becoming a (bad) habit, This Week in CFD is presented here as Last Week in CFD. But that doesn't make the news any less relevant. Great article on wind tunnels because they go hand-in-glove with CFD. Monica Schnitger (who you r...