Obviously, the doomsday didn't come. It proves again it is hard to predicate what will happen when you don't have sufficient knowledge on how the system works now. Maybe it is just a bug in Mayan's calendar (Google also forgot to put December in People App in Android 4.2 (aka Jelly Bean 4.2) last November). Predicating ...
We all know post-processing, because it is part of CAE. All text books teach you how important the post-processing is. For most Generation Y engineers, post-processing (and maybe even the whole CAE) almost equals to visualization as discussed in this post. Yes, post-processing is important: it gives you the chance to justify your one-month (or one-day, or one-week, or ...
Last year, FieldView jumped into Altair's bed, and now got a baby named AcuFieldView in the latest AcuSolve package. Recently, FLOW 3D was married happily with EnSight (CEI), and will get EnSight 10 integrated into FLOW 3D in a few months (this fall). It seems most CFD software vendors now are aware of the importance of post-processing capabilities. ...
Although there are quite a few mesh-free (mesh-less) FEA and CFD codes, meshing is still one of the most important tasks for most CAE users. The importance of generating high quality mesh can never be overemphasized. But how to define a high quality, or more preciously good, mesh? Reading the output of mesh quality report in ...
If you happened to touch a real punch card in your university time, you probably will be surprised to find out most CAE software companies are touting "easy of use" for their software. CAE software is still not a mass product for the time being. The required knowledge and input from the user makes it almost ...