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CAEWatch, WTF?
CAE Watch is the information hub for CAE professionals. From respected industry experts of finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), product lifecycle management (PLM), we...
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Navier-Stokes vs lattice Boltzmann: will it change the landscape of CFD?
Navier-Stokes vs Boltzmann (image source: Wikipedia For most people, CFD is about continuity and Navier-Stokes equations. But this is not always true. One of the alternatives for CFD simulation is...
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CAE in the Cloud, Is It Just Hot Air?
CAE in the cloud, is it just hot air? Cloud computing now is one of the fastest growing sectors in IT industry. How this will affect CAE industry? Actually, cloud computing is not new for CAE industry,...
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Partnership in CAE Industry
Real-world partnership illustrated Like in any other industries, partnership is not new among CAE players, big or small. Technical partnership usually creates a win-win situation; at least, this is...
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Top 5 misunderstandings on (good) mesh
Although there are quite a few mesh-free (mesh-less) FEA and CFD codes, meshing is still one of the most important tasks for most CAE users. The importance of generating high quality mesh can never be...
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The best 3 answers to “Why is visulization important for CFD?”
Last year, FieldView jumped into Altair’s bed, and now got a baby named AcuFieldView in the latest AcuSolve package. Recently, FLOW 3D was married happily with EnSight (CEI), and will get EnSight 10...
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From post-processing and visualization to simulation result exploration
We all know post-processing, because it is part of CAE. All text books teach you how important the post-processing is. For most Generation Y engineers, post-processing (and maybe even the whole CAE)...
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CFD in 2013: what will change? what will not
Obviously, the doomsday didn’t come. It proves again it is hard to predicate what will happen when you don’t have sufficient knowledge on how the system works now. Maybe it is just a bug in Mayan’s...
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Why isn’t open source CFD solution for everyone?
When open source CFD solution is talked, two familiar statements are often heard: Open source CFD solution is cheap, because nothing can be cheaper than free. Open source CFD solution is inferior,...
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CFD in 2014
When a reader asked me whether there would be a post for CFD in 2014, I realized it is time to think about 2014. CFD in 2013 is entering its grave. This post is the final nail in the coffin for that...
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