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2023: Advancing Sustainability Through CFD
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One of the most rewarding aspects of owning Convergent Science is watching the company grow and evolve as our team embraces new challenges and opportunities. At the end of each year, I like to take a moment to look back and really appreciate all of the exciting developments and milestones of the...
Clair Engineers Pvt Ltd Set to Upgrade Their Products with CONVERGE Horizon
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With increased production capacities and outputs, it is important for industries to continuously upgrade their pollution control systems to stay within the ever-updating permissible emissions limits. Clair Engineers Pvt Ltd, experts in the design, manufacture, and installation of air pollution...
CONVERGE for Batteries: Predicting Thermal Runaway Propagation in Renault Group's Pouch Cell Battery Pack
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The push from governments around the globe for an electric mode of transport has increased the momentum of manufacturing and sales of electric vehicles. I can confirm this not just from the data in articles but also by observing the increased number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and hybrid...
Isn't Hydrogen Supposed to be Easy?
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They say you never forget your first love. I like to hug engines as much as the next Convergent Science employee, but I may live out my entire engineering career as a scramjet guy at heart. In foundational and open-literature research, scramjets are almost synonymous with hydrogen. It's easy to...
Leonardo Pagamonci Wins 2023 CONVERGE Academic Competition With Tandem Onshore Wind Turbine Study
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Leonardo Pagamonci We're thrilled to announce Leonardo Pagamonci, graduate student at the University of Florence, as the winner of the 2023 CONVERGE Academic Competition. The competition challenged students to design and run a novel CONVERGE simulation that demonstrates significant engineering...
In Memoriam: Scott Drennan – A Legacy of Dedication and Friendship
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Scott Drennan November 5, 1962 – August 7, 2023 It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing and honor the life of Scott Drennan, a remarkable individual whose impact reached far beyond his professional achievements. As the director of both gas turbine and aftertreatment applications at...
Streamline Your CONVERGE Workflow With In Situ Post-Processing
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At Convergent Science, we recently selected ParaView Catalyst as our in situ post-processing solution for solving computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems. ParaView Catalyst is a library that allows ParaView, an open-source data analysis and visualization program distributed by Kitware, to...
Capturing Heart Valve Dynamics With Implicit Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling
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The heart is a vital organ that pumps blood throughout the body, carrying oxygen and nutrients critical to organ function and sustaining life. It is, nevertheless, susceptible to disease. Heart disease touches the lives of almost everyone. The line between a healthy heart and an unhealthy heart is a...
Analyzing Flashback in Hydrogen-Fueled Gas Turbines with CONVERGE
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From refineries to planes, gas turbines are vital to several industries. In addition to providing thrust to keep planes in the air, gas turbines account for almost a quarter of the world's electricity production.1 Given their prominence in the industry, reducing emissions from gas turbines is...
Academic Spotlight: Assessing Wind Turbine and Wind Farm Wakes on Uneven Terrain
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Last year while traveling through the countryside of Tamil Nadu, India, I was struck by the sight of numerous wind turbines dotting the landscape. Those towering machines were not only a testament to the ingenuity of human engineering but also a symbol of the growing importance of wind energy in...