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News from the International Meshing Roundtable
This year’s International Meshing Roundtable was held just down the road from Pointwise, in Austin, Texas on 11-14 October 2015. Now in its 24th incarnation, the IMR is the event for mesh generation as...
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The Connector Newsletter for Nov/Dec 2015
High Fidelity Overset Structured Mesh Generation for Marine Hydrokinetic Devices Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University used the overset grid assembly tools in Pointwise to generate...
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This Week in CFD
Software simulationHub is a new, cloud-based CFD application. Materialise released Magics20 for preparing geometry for 3D printing. CCE released free CAD viewer, EnSuite-View. FFT released Actran 16...
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VINAS Users Conference 2015: Perspectives from Japan
During this past October, I had the pleasure of joining the Pointwise team on a trip to Japan for the 2015 VINAS User Group Meeting. VINAS (Visual Integration & Numerical Analysis Systems) is a...
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I’m Carolyn Woeber and This Is How I Mesh
Carolyn Woeber, Manager of the Technical Support Team. Over time, I’ve realized that I’m in this for the adventure. I’m sure you are laughing at that, but it’s true. Discovering and doing mesh...
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I’m Jim Colby and This Is How I Mesh
Jim Colby, Senior Engineer on the Product Development Team. While originally from Illinois (Waukegan for you Jack Benny fans), I grew in foggy Santa Maria, CA. So, I know BBQ – specifically Santa Maria...
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Mesh with Pointwise at AIAA SciTech 2016
Next week the aerospace community gathers in San Diego for AIAA SciTech 2016 (Science and Technology Forum and Exposition). If you’re going to be there and if you have questions about mesh generation...
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I’m Chris Fouts and This Is How I Mesh
Chris Fouts, Staff Specialist on the Product Development Team. I guess you could say I’ve been working towards a career at Pointwise, Inc. since 1978. That’s when, growing up in the outskirts of...
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This Week in CFD
CD-adapco + Siemens One billion dollars [approx.] is an attention-getting amount of money. The biggest CFD news of the week which you’ve all probably heard already was Siemens’ purchase of CD-adapco...
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Summer 2016 Internships Now Open
We are now accepting resumes for engineering internships on our technical support, product development, and applied research teams. You can read the full announcement on our jobs page. Applying for an...
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I’m Rose Mary Crager and This Is How I Mesh
Rose Mary Crager, Manager of the Business & Administrative Services Team. Throughout my career, I have worked for a criminal attorney for several years, in the corporate office of a finance...
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The Connector Newsletter for 2016, 1st Quarter
North America’s Largest 3-D Printed Structure Started as a Mesh While the folks at Pointwise appreciate the beauty and utility of grids, usually the computational meshes produced by our software are...
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Small Biz and the Aerospace & Defense Supply Chain
Yesterday I was a guest of the AIAA Management Technical Committee [oxymoron?] for their meeting at the University of Texas at Arlington where the topic was Integrating the Small Supplier into the...
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I’m Dr. Michael G. Remotigue and This Is How I Mesh
Dr. Michael Remotigue, Engineering Specialist on the Product Development Team. I grew up in Fairfield, OH, a bedroom community of Cincinnati. I’m the second oldest of four brothers. My father is...
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This Week in CFD
Pointwise User Group Meeting 2016 Come join us in Fort Worth, Texas on 21-22 September for the Pointwise User Group Meeting 2016. The call for papers is open (due date is 01 July) – this is your...
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I’m Patrick Baker and This Is How I Mesh
Patrick Baker, Manager of the Product Development Team. A native of Kansas City, MO, I spent the earliest part of my technical life hanging out with my dad at his office. Maybe it was the lure of...
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This Week in CFD
Applications Just in time for St. Patrick’s day beer drinking, COMSOL computes why bubbles rise in your glass of stout. Researchers at Johns Hopkins used CFD to study the wind conditions that make the...
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This Week in CFD
Events CD-adapco blogged about how their customers are taking full advantage of their software in simulation and first thing cited is automation. The article was written based on activities at their...
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I’m Rick Matus and This Is How I Mesh
Dr. Richard Matus, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing. I grew up as an air force brat, so moving around the country was a feature of my younger days. I was born in San Antonio and also...
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Mesh Morphing for Automotive Shape Design Optimization
Next week Claudio Pita and I will be in the Motor City attending the SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition. There we will be presenting the work we performed in cooperation with Mark Landon of Optimal...
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