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Let me get this out of the way right up front. Next week's International Conference on CFD (ICCFD) is being held in Hawaii, at the Royal Lahaina Resort on the island of Maui. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. It's been 36 years since I last visited Hawaii when my wife and I honeymooned just up the road from Lahaina at Kaanapali. 

The ICCFD has been around since 2000 when it was created by merging two other conferences, the International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics and the International Symposium on CFD. This year's event is the 11th since 2000 and has been held every other year in cities around the world. The 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid so it's been 4 years since everyone met last.

The conference program is available on the website and you'll see that it's chock full of topics from LES and mesh adaptation to reacting flows and AI. One of my Cadence CFD colleagues will be presenting work we are doing with MIT and the University of Kentucky on Output-Based Mesh Adaptation for High Speed Flows. And of course, Cadence is a proud sponsor of the ICCFD's return to in-person meetings.

This high-order curved mesh was generated in Pointwise. Green cells are linear, yellow cells are quadratic.

I am fortunate to be presenting in a special plenary session that begins with a memorial lecture for Joe Shang, followed by my presentation on my passion project, the CFD Vision 2030. Those two presentations are followed by a panel discussion, "From Joe Shang to to Vision 2030: Future of CFD." That ought to be fun.

Look for a follow-up post on ICCFD11 after I get back. But in the meantime, consider a Free Trial of Pointwise for your CFD meshing needs or subscribe to our email newsletter to keep up on all the latest at Cadence CFD.

Aloha!