Today Pointwise released Version 18.1, a major update to its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software. With its origins in a multiyear development effort funded by the U.S. Air ...

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Designers once relied solely on flight tests to evaluate the separation of stores — bombs, missiles, external fuel tanks, and so forth — from transonic military aircraft.

Time and memory: Using structured grids, one can fill the same volume with fewer hexes than tets, thereby lowering the cell count, which consequently reduces the CFD computation time and memory usage.