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I’m John Steinbrenner and This Is How I Mesh
Dr. John Steinbrenner, Executive Vice President, Research and Development. I was born and raised in Parma, OH, a blue-collar suburb of Cleveland coincidentally less than 10 miles from John Chawner’s...
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Special “I Wish I Had More Time” Edition OpenFOAM was used as part of the simulation of flow through air filter bags. Image from engineerlive.com. Click image for article. Pointwise asks you to...
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I’m John Chawner and This Is How I Mesh
Meshing has been very, very good to me. Who’s me? And what do I do? I’m an engineer by education, a programmer by practice, and now I mostly enjoy meeting and learning from interesting people. John...
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Applications Boeing’s CFD software helped Callaway Golf produce a tournament winning driver. CFD software for designing sailboats. Do you think like a simulation engineer? Read about six rules for...
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This Is How I Glyph – Automatic Grid Refinement
Yes, I just made Glyph a verb. Potsdam Propeller Test Case (PPTC) grid family generated automatically using a Glyph script. What is Glyph? For the uninitiated, Glyph is Pointwise’s scripting language...
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I’m Tom Economon and This Is How I Mesh
In my last episode, I recapped my adventure through Japan with the Pointwise team for the VINAS Users Conference 2015 last fall. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to reuse the picture that Rick Matus...
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Creepy “Friday the 13th” Edition News from Pointwise For those of you with an hour to spare, a recording of this morning’s Talking CFD Live Q&A Roundtable is available on YouTube. Yours truly was...
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This Is How I Glyph – Airfoil Generator
It was 2008 when I began as a summer intern at Pointwise. One of the first grids I generated was an O-Grid for an airfoil. The process was so repeatable that once I had learned Glyph I immediately...
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Visualization CFD visualization software provider Tecplot announced their acquisition by Vela Software and the retirement of the company’s founders. [Mike Peery and Don Roberts are two of the good guys...
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I’m John Stone and This Is How I Mesh
John Stone of CFD Technologies. My home town of Manchester, England is notable for many reasons: the development of Graphene, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Joseph Whitworth (the father of precision...
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This is How I Glyph – Aircraft Mesher
Continuing in a similar vein as Travis’ earlier example where he introduces the very first Glyph script he wrote that creates NACA-4 series airfoils directly in Pointwise, this week’s This Is How I...
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Pointwise at AIAA Aviation 2016
AIAA Aviation 2016 is happening in just a couple of weeks (13-17 June) in Washington, DC. There will be a lot of Pointwise folks there so seek us out to ask a question, make a suggestion, get a demo,...
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2016 Might Be Your Year For The Meshy Award
Pointwise loves meshes and our Meshy Award is a way to celebrate those meshes that combine engineering insight with artistic flair. At the Pointwise User Group Meeting 2016, we’ll be recognizing one...
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I’m Uli Fuchs and This Is How I Mesh
Uli Fuchs of CFD Beratung. I was born and raised in Ulm, a city located in the federal German state Baden-Württemberg in the Southern part of Germany. Internationally, Ulm is primarily known for its...
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I’m Rajib Roy and This Is How I Mesh
Rajib Roy, Intern on the Sales & Marketing Team. I was born in a rural village in southern Bangladesh and raised in Chittagong Hill Tracts in the southeastern part of the country. The Hill Tracts...
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This Is How I Glyph – Helical Connectors
I’m Brian Mack and This Is How I Glyph. My internship with Pointwise kicked-off this past spring while I was finishing up the spring semester of my junior year at the University of Texas at Arlington....
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Software modeFRONTIER 2016 is now available for multidisciplinary simulations. EnSight‘s FAQ for July 2016 includes tips on their calculator and blanked elements. Engineering.com shares some of what’s...
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3 Short Questions About Your Pointwise Usage
Can you spare a minute to answer 3 short questions about your usage of Pointwise for mesh generation? Your answers will help guide new product development. Thank you.
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I’m Brody Nutt and This Is How I Mesh
Brody Nutt, Intern on the Technical Support Team. I am from Overland Park, Kansas, which is a suburban city just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. I ended up in Texas through my studies at Texas...
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Reading Meshing and preprocessing [Are they the same thing? Does pre- include meshing?] are a big part of the free, no-registration report from Tech Clarity on Addressing the Bottlenecks of FEA...
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