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The Search for Soot-free Diesel: Modeling Ducted Fuel Injection With CONVERGE
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At the upcoming CONVERGE User Conference, which will be held online from March 31–April 1, Andrea Piano will present results from experimental and numerical studies of the effects of ducted fuel injection on fuel spray characteristics. Dr. Piano is a Research Assistant in the e3 group, coordinated...
An Evening With the Experts: Scaling CFD With High-Performance Computing
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Listen to the full audio of the panel discussion. As computing technology continues to advance rapidly, running simulations on hundreds and even thousands of cores is becoming standard practice in the CFD industry. Likewise, CFD software is continually evolving to keep pace with the advances in...
2019: A (Load) Balanced End to a Successful Decade
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2019 proved to be an exciting and eventful year for Convergent Science. We released the highly anticipated major rewrite of our software, CONVERGE 3.0. Our United States, European, and Indian offices all saw significant increases in employee count. We have also continued to forge ahead in new...
CONVERGE 3.0: From Specialized Software to CFD Powerhouse
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When Eric, Keith, and I first wrote CONVERGE back in 2001, we wrote it as a serial code. That probably sounds a little crazy, since practically all CFD simulations these days are run in parallel on multiple CPUs, but that's how it started. We ended up taking our serial code and making it parallel,...
Changing the CFD Conference Game with the CONVERGE UC
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As the 2019 CONVERGE User Conference in New Orleans approaches, I've been thinking about the past five years of CONVERGE events. Let me take you back to the first CONVERGE User Conference. It was September 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin, and I was one of the first speakers. I talked about two-phase...
Apollo 11 at 50: Balancing the Two-Legged Stool
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On July 16th, I will look up at the night sky and celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. As I admire the full moon, the CFDer in me will think about the classic metaphor of the three-legged stool. Modern engineering efforts depend on theory, simulation, and experiment:...
CONVERGE Chemistry Tools: The Simple Solution to Complex Chemistry
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As I've started to cook more, I've learned the true value of multipurpose kitchen utensils and appliances. Especially living in an apartment with limited kitchen space, the fewer tools I need to make delicious meals, the better. A rice cooker that doubles as a slow cooker? Great. A blender that's...
Your μ Matters: Understanding Turbulence Model Behavior
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I recently attended an internal Convergent Science advanced training course on turbulence modeling. One of the audience members asked one of my favorite modeling questions, and I'm happy to share it here. It's the sort of question I sometimes find myself asking tentatively, worried I might have...
What's Knockin' in Europe?
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The Convergent Science GmbH team is based in Linz, Austria and provides support to our European clients and collaborators alike as they tackle the hard problems. One of the most interesting and challenging problems in the design of high efficiency modern spark-ignited (SI) internal combustion...
2018: CONVERGE-ING ON A DECADE
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Convergent Science thrived in 2018, with many successes, rapid growth, and consistent innovation. We celebrated the tenth anniversary of the commercial release of CONVERGE. The Convergent Science employee count surpassed 100, and our India office tripled in size. We formed new partnerships and...