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A Glimpse Into the Future of Mobility in India at the CONVERGE User Conference
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It took four years for the CONVERGE User Conference–India to return, but when it did, it was worth the wait. It was a whirlwind week packed with technical presentations from the Indian CONVERGE community, CONVERGE training, networking events, and two application workshops to round it off. Yajuvendra...
Celebrating a Decade of Partnership, Success, and CFD with IDAJ
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A couple of years after CONVERGE was released commercially, the owners of Convergent Science found themselves at something of a crossroads. At that point in time, the company was focused primarily on the engine industry, and CONVERGE was already being adopted by many of the major U.S. automakers. To...
CONVERGE for Batteries: A Less Expensive Method for Predicting Thermal Runaway Propagation
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Seeking to reduce local exhaust emissions and embrace sustainable transport, governments across continents have undertaken multiple initiatives to promote the adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The result: a rapid acceleration in the number of BEVs on the roads. But with an increasing...
Breaking Ground on the Convergent Science Headquarters Expansion
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On November 4, 2022, Convergent Science broke ground on construction of its second office building in Madison, Wisconsin, just down the street from its World Headquarters. "For a company whose employees once fit in a small broom closet, we now need quite a bit of space," said Kelly Senecal, Co-Owner...
Daikin Industries Saves Time by Switching to CONVERGE for Swing Compressor Modeling
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Designing an efficient and effective compressor requires a detailed understanding of the device's internal flow field. Experimental measurements provide useful information, but they have some disadvantages: building prototypes for testing is time-consuming and expensive, there is limited space...
From Broom Closet to Booming Sales: Convergent Science Turns 25 Years Old
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This year, Convergent Science turns 25 years old. On December 7, 1997, the seven original founders of Convergent Science—including current co-owners and co-vice presidents Keith Richards, Kelly Senecal, Eric Pomraning, and Dan Lee—filled out the paperwork to incorporate Convergent Thinking, LLC, and...
Rapid Optimization of a Polaris Exhaust Port Using High-Performance Cloud Computing and Machine Learning
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Emissions regulations around the globe are becoming increasingly stringent. To design compliant internal combustion (IC) engines, optimizing every component of the engine is key and every small gain in efficiency counts. Since their invention more than a century ago, IC engines have come a long way....
TORAD ENGINEERING IMPROVES THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR NOVEL SPOOL COMPRESSOR WITH CONVERGE CFD SOFTWARE
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Many entrepreneurs dream of creating a product that will revolutionize an industry. Starting off with an idea and a vision, only a small fraction manage to bring their dream to fruition. Sometimes, however, equipped with the right tools and a solution to a pressing need, an entrepreneur can...
Tamara Gammaidoni Wins 2022 CONVERGE Academic Competition With Air-Cooled Battery Pack Simulation
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Tamara Gammaidoni We're thrilled to announce that Tamara Gammaidoni, a graduate student at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, has won the 2022 CONVERGE Academic Competition. The competition challenged students to design and run a novel CONVERGE simulation that demonstrated significant...
Smooth Sailing: Analyzing Marine Propellers With CONVERGE
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I grew up in a port town on Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes. As a kid, I would watch, spellbound, as cargo ships pulled into the harbor, amazed by their sheer looming size. As an adult, I'm no less in awe. These great metal giants can be laden with a hundred thousand tons of goods...