Special “Just the Facts” Edition
![CFD simulation of a skydiver superimposed on a photograph of same. Image from AL.com. Click image for article.](http://afinemesh.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/dynetics-skydiving.jpg?w=300&h=218)
CFD simulation of a skydiver superimposed on a photograph of same. Image from AL.com. Click image for article.
- The CFD Vision 2030 Study is covered by Hi-Tech CFD in MCAD Cafe with emphasis on turbulence modeling, HPC, and multidisciplinary simulations.
- Two articles on gender and STEM education/careers:
- The Gender Confidence Gap in STEM Education via ENGINEERING.com
- Toys for Boys? from Mentor Graphics
- Tech Soft 3D released HOOPS Visualize 2015.
- ASME is now accepting 400+ word abstracts for their 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.
- For those of you old enough to remember back when SGI was the computer to use for CFD, here’s a video called When SGI Ruled the World.
- Design for function, not geometry, with Autodesk’s Project Dreamcatcher.
- Optimizing a golf club‘s drag using CFD.
- The 27th International Conference on Parallel CFD will be held 17-21 May 2015 in Montreal.
- simFlow 2.0 is now available.
- FLOW-3D Version 11 is now available.
- ESI released VA One for vibro-acoustics.
- CFD Support published their newsletter for January 2015.
- Rhino users will probably like a free toolset for aircraft parametric geometry.
- Particle-in-Cell published their first newsletter of 2015.
- Tecplot and KARALIT have been working together on immersed boundary CFD.
- SimScale is making CFD tools available at no cost for academia.
- Intelligent Light released FieldView 15.
- Improving CFD in NX.
![A twitter bot claims to allow you to polygonize yourself. Image from Visual News. Click images for article.](http://afinemesh.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/poly-twitter.png?w=262&h=300)
A twitter bot claims to allow you to polygonize yourself. Image from Visual News. Click images for article.
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