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2024: A Year of Innovation in Action
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As the original developers of CONVERGE, Eric, Keith, and I agree that there's nothing more rewarding than seeing our employees accomplish things the three of us never could have achieved on our own. We may have laid the foundation of CONVERGE, but our employees are responsible for building the...
Unlocking Potential: The Power of Effective Training
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In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving world, staying ahead requires more than just keeping up with the latest trends and technologies. It necessitates continuous learning and skill development, making training an essential component of personal and organizational growth. Whether you're an...
Academic Spotlight: Illuminating the Physics of Fuel Sprays and Combustion
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In today's energy and transportation industries, sprays and combustion are at the heart of many of our most relied-upon technologies. From internal combustion engines to gas turbines to burners, better understanding the fundamental physical processes that drive these devices can help us make them...
Removing Electric Vehicle Roadblocks: IAV Takes on Thermal Propagation With CONVERGE
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The need to reduce emissions from the transportation sector has spawned a new era of evolution and development in the automotive industry. Many countries around the world have identified electric vehicles as a crucial piece of the decarbonization puzzle, and as with any emerging technology (or, more...
Behind the Scenes of Autonomous Meshing: An Interview With Kelly Senecal
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If you've ever talked to someone who works at Convergent Science, you will undoubtedly have heard us extolling the virtues of CONVERGE's autonomous meshing. Got a complicated geometry? No problem! Moving boundaries? Easy! No time to waste on meshing? We've got you covered! This enthusiasm, we...
Development of Prechamber Enabled Mixing-Controlled Combustion: A Fuel-Agnostic Combustion Strategy for the Future of Low-Carbon Reciprocating Engines
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The heartbeat of the global economy is commercial vehicles, and as the economy grows, so does the demand for on-road trucks, off-road construction equipment, and agricultural vehicles. These vehicles are almost entirely powered by compression ignition engines using fossil diesel fuel. In the face of...
C3Mech: A Single-Source Solution for Combustion CFD
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Imagine you're a CFD engineer and you want to run a combustion simulation for a certain kind of reacting flow device. But before you can do that, you need to find a chemical mechanism that can mathematically represent the chemistry within the reacting fluid. So you scour the available literature...
How to Bottle the Lightest Element on Earth: Hydrogen Tank Filling Dynamics
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Introduction and Motivation The trials of climate change and humanity's desire to mitigate our carbon footprint is motivating the research and development of renewable technologies for the transportation and energy sectors. Hydrogen is a promising technology, with the potential to address issues...
The Role of CFD in the Floating Offshore Wind Industry
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As computational fluid dynamics (CFD) enthusiasts, we must sometimes take opportunities to toot our own horns when it comes to the vast capabilities of high-fidelity modeling techniques. One great opportunity appears in the floating offshore wind (OSW) industry. Floating OSW has experienced...
Capping Conundrums: Sealing the Well
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In 2010, an explosion occurred on the Macondo Prospect off the Gulf of Mexico, taking the lives of 11 men and releasing 5 million barrels of oil into the water. The "worst oil spill in US history" led to thousands of lost habitats and created a graveyard of coral reefs stretching a mile deep beneath...