Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has long had the reputation of being too difficult, too slow, and too expensive for everyday bench-level engineers. A decade ago, this was true. But CFD has changed.
Over at NASA, Michelle Moyer writes that the 2016 NASA Software of the Year Award has gone to Pegasus 5, a revolutionary CFD tool. Developed in-house by a team led by aerospace engineer Stuart Rogers ...
Most engineers are familiar with finite-element analysis and its usefulness in structural problems, but they aren't as well versed in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A goal plot looks like this ...