Development of the interface leveraged Pointwise’s plugin SDK which allowed Azore Software (and any user) to write the exporter themselves. The latest update of Pointwise’s mesh generation software includes a native interface to the AzoreCFD flow solver. Regardless of whether you call it a file or a database, however, you’re still faced with the interoperability challenges of representation and translation. A geometry model in a CAD file is a like a rose pressed between the pages of a book – it’s still a flower but it’s dead and flat. “ vendors will be attempting to kill files and move to databases and cloud services” is one conclusion drawn in the Beyond PLM article Who Wants to Kill the CAD File? I know a guy who has been advocating for the demise of CAD files for years and years and I understand his point. Sounds like a great CFD benchmark case to me.

“The overall scientific objective of the BOLT project is to investigate boundary layer transition mechanisms on a low-curvature concave surface with swept leading edges at high Mach numbers (approximately five to seven).” This is from an article in the Jan-Feb 2021 issue of the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.

Shown here is a screen cap of the video of the week of supersonic flow over a cylinder by Matthias Maier.

And if you’ve ever wondered why geometry modeling is to mesh generation as turbulence modeling is to CFD, there’s a paper you need to download. The application case study about cars driving backwards makes me wonder about doing CFD on a plane flying backwards. There’s a tasty CFD application involving gelato. This week’s CFD news, while formatted differently, includes all the usual suspects including an article about whether CAD files are going the way of the dodo.

Tecplot save as a cad friendly file