Leonardo SpA Briefing • July 27, 2019

Thanks to SADIG and SHOAL Group for organising the industry briefing series for Leonardo SpA . We are excited to be involved.

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Cavitating Sphere • July 25, 2019

We’ve just published over on YouTube, what we think at least, are some cool visualisations of cavitation in the wake behind a sphere. The sphere is a geometrically simple shape yet generates a very complex wake field. Check out the animation below and if you like that there are two more from different angles over at our YouTube play list . For reference the simulation was run on our in-house…

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Get Your CFD Thermal Boundaries Right! • July 18, 2019

Peter Brady, Principal Engineer , has just published an opinion piece over on LinkedIn about getting your thermal boundary conditions right for CFD. The work sprung from co-supervising a student at UNSW and numerically investigates the effect of thermal stratification of a room and how that drives changes in chimney flow. The short version: it really, really maters where your thermal boundaries…

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OpenFOAM v1906 Release Webinar • June 25, 2019

With the v1906 release of OpenFOAM due any day now the ESI Group and OpenCFD have just announced the date of the release and features webinar to accompany the code release. The friendliest time for Australian audiences would be: 6pm, 16th July 2019. The event is free but pre-registration is mandatory.

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PAM Training at Swinburne University • May 03, 2019

Thanks to Jimmy Thomas and his students for hosting Bruce, Allen and Damian for a two-day training course in PAM-FORM and PAM-RTM at the Swinburne Factory of the Future. We look forward to much more to come from this partnership.

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PUCA 2019 First Announcement • April 29, 2019

The first announcement for PUCA 2019 has just come out with the Japanese ESI Users’ Forum to be held this year at the Tokyo Hilton, Shinjuku, on the 27th and 28th of November. The full announcement is: We cordially invite you to join PUCA2019. “PUCA” is the historical ESI Forum held in Japan, supported by ESI customers for the past 30 years. The Forum will take place on two full days and is…

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Blue Economy CRC Funded • April 18, 2019

Pacific ESI welcomes the announcement of the successful Blue Economy CRC and is pleased to be a founding partner. The Blue Economy CRC is a 10-year $ 329 million collaborative research project lead by the University of Tasmania and comprised of 45 domestic and international partners. The Australian federal government contributed $ 70 million for the CRC. According to Blue Economy CRC Research…

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2019 DMTC Conference • March 28, 2019

Pacific ESI were present at this year's Defence Materials Technology Centre annual conference held in Canberra. Our representatives, Damian McGuckin and Allen Chhor, used the conference to catch up with collaborators including Xiaobo Yu from DST Group. The welcome speech at the conference was delivered by the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, Minister for Defence Industry.

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OpenFOAM v1812 Release Webinar • February 01, 2019

OpenCFD Ltd and the ESI Group have just announced that the 28th of February 2019 will be the day for the OpenFOAM v1812 release webinars. There will be two to cover most time zones at convenient times: 8pm 28th February 2019, Sydney (AEDT) – 10am Paris (CET) 4am 1st March 2019, Sydney (AEDT) – 6pm Paris (CET) Registration is free and the webinar will be jointly presented by: Fred Mendonça…

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OpenFOAM Conference 2019 Announcement • January 21, 2019

The 7th OpenFOAM Conference has been announced for 15-17 October 2019 in Berlin. This is the premier OpenFOAM event across all CFD applications and process integration. It will be extremely valuable for CFD engineers, Managers, IT specialists, Developers and Consultants as well as Researchers and Students. In addition to the call for papers a packed schedule of workshops is already confirmed…

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