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I’m Zach Davis and This Is How I Mesh
Zach Davis, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. I’m on my way to becoming a versatile meshing expert with Pointwise. Structured, unstructured, overset, hybrid…you name it, and I’ll...
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This Week in CFD
Events Calling it an “experience economy,” Dassault Systemes talked about the importance of delivering a good user experience beyond simply having the best product in this Desktop Engineering article...
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I’m Travis Carrigan and This Is How I Mesh
Travis Carrigan, Senior Engineer on the Sales & Marketing team. Have you ever been to the Idaho Potato Museum? If not, you should go. They’ll give you a free potato at the end of the tour…or at...
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I’m Sid Agarwal and This Is How I Mesh
Sid Agarwal, Intern on the Technical Support Team. I grew up in India in a small city called Karnal which also happens to be the hometown of late astronaut Kalpana Chawla. I finished my schooling with...
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Impressions of the 10th OpenFOAM Workshop
As a new OpenFOAM user I had the opportunity to attend the 10th OpenFOAM Workshop held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pointwise participated in the workshop in a variety of ways:...
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This Week in CFD
News It seems that President Obama is also a fan of the CFD Vision 2030 Study as it is cited in the Whitehouse’s recent announcement of the executive order creating the National Strategic Computing...
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I’m Michael Mirsky and This Is How I Mesh
Michael Mirsky, Product Development Engineer OK, I’ve got to come clean. I don’t rigorously mesh that often. As part of the product development team, the grids I spend most of my time with are those...
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I’m Daniel LaCroix and This Is How I Mesh
Daniel LaCroix, Senior Engineer on the Technical Support Team. I’m sure there are ways to add drama and intrigue to my upbringing, but I don’t know them. I was the third of four children, born and...
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This Week in CFD
News from Pointwise At the end of his presentation at AIAA Aviation 2015 on the evolution of Pointwise’s T-Rex hybrid meshing technique, Dr. John Steinbrenner showed what he called “gratuitous pictures...
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I’m Chris Jobe and This Is How I Mesh
Chris Jobe, Senior System Administrator on the Information Technology Team. While I started off my college career in computer aided design, I never went into the engineering world of meshing before I...
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8 Questions with Cobalt Solutions’ Ken Wurtzler
Ken Wurtzler is Director of Operations for Cobalt Solutions, LLC (cobaltcfd.com). What do you see are the biggest challenges facing CFD in the next 3 years? One of the challenges is the notion that CFD...
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8 Questions with Chris Sideroff of Applied CCM Canada
Chris Sideroff is the owner and principal director at Applied CCM Canada (www.appliedccm.ca). Applied CCM Canada is the Canadian distributor for Pointwise, offers OpenFOAM-based development and support...
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This Week in CFD
Pointwise Pointwise’s Dr. Steve Karman will participate in a webinar hosted by the Centre for Modeling and Simulation (CFMS) on 21 September to discuss high order CFD technologies. Dr. Peter Vincent...
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The Connector: Sep/Oct 2015 Issue
University of South Florida Races with Pointwise The University of South Florida’s Formula SAE racing team, USF Racing, placed 6th overall out of more than 80 teams competing at the Formula SAE...
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This Week in CFD
News FluiDyna has added nanoFluidX (particle-based simulation) and ultraFluidX (Lattice-Boltzmann) to Altair’s Partner Alliance. Onshape, “the first and only full-cloud 3D CAD system,” has gained...
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Pointwise V17.3 R4 Now Available
Pointwise Version 17.3 R4 is now available for download and production use. In addition to many bug fixes, this version is compatible with three new file formats. The open source PyFR...
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I’m John Dreese and This Is How I Mesh
John Dreese, Senior Engineer on the Technical Support Team. If America was a Ping Pong table, I would be the ball. I grew up in Ohio, bounced out to California during the dotcom implosion, bounced back...
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This Week in CFD
Applications Yale researchers use CFD to study patient-specific models of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Applied CCM used the XDBview feature in FieldView to reveal to students the intricacies of...
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I’m Andrea Alvarado and This Is How I Mesh
Andrea Alvarado, Marketing Assistant on the Sales & Marketing Team. “I am not an engineer.” I have found that since I started working at Pointwise six years ago, I say that quite often especially...
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I’m Mike Jefferies and This Is How I Mesh
Mike Jefferies, Engineering Specialist on the Product Development Team. I am one of the software developers here at Pointwise. I have contributed to several areas of the code base, but the geometry and...
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