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Harness the Power of CONVERGE + GT-SUITE with Unlimited Parallelization
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Imagine that you are modeling an engine. Engines are complex machines, and accurately modeling an engine is not an easy undertaking. Capturing in-cylinder dynamics, intake and exhaust system characteristics, complicated boundary conditions, and much more creates a problem that often takes multiple...
Resolving Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions with LES and Detailed Chemistry
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One of the more controversial subjects we talk about here at Convergent Science is the role of turbulence-chemistry interaction (TCI) when using our SAGE detailed chemistry solver. What is TCI? TCI is used to describe two separate but linked processes: enhanced mixing in momentum, energy, and...
CONVERGE Workflow Tips
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As a general purpose CFD solver, CONVERGE is robust out of the box. Autonomous meshing technology built into the solver eliminates the meshing bottleneck that has traditionally bogged down CFD workflows. Despite this advantage, however, performing computational fluid dynamics analyses is still a...
Machine Learning for Automotive Engine Design
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In the last five years, "machine learning" has become a veritable buzzword. From applications as diverse as traffic forecasting and the virtual assistant on your smartphone to genome sequencing, researchers employ machine learning across a broad array of fields to improve predictions based on big...
CONVERGE for Compressors: Proven Tools, New Application
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Computational fluid dynamics tools such as CONVERGE CFD offer the ability to analyze and optimize compressors without the difficulty and expense (both time and money) of generating and testing physical prototypes. With CONVERGE, several core technologies make your compressor simulation workflow...
Return of an Old Friend: One Engineer's Thoughts on Tecplot 360
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You may have seen the press release: starting May 31, a version of the Tecplot 360 flow visualization software will be packaged with CONVERGE. No corporate details here–this is an engineer's viewpoint. I am a longtime Tecplot user, having worked extensively with nearly every version since 2008 R1....
CONVERGE: 10 Years of Perseverance and Success… and Autonomous Meshing!
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A lot of things happened in 2008. There was a financial crisis. China hosted the Olympics. Barack Obama won the US presidency. Sarah Palin could even see Russia from her house! But something else was brewing in the Midwestern college town of Madison, Wisconsin. In 2008, Keith Richards, Eric...
2017: A Year of Global Growth
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In 2017 Convergent Science saw tremendous growth and success in many areas. We now have nearly 100 employees (almost double the 2014 headcount), new clients are using CONVERGE CFD to investigate pumps and compressors, and our customer base using CONVERGE for aftertreatment and gas turbine design...
Convergent Science India LLP
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Same Face, New Name Many CONVERGE users in India and Southeast Asia are quite familiar with the magnificently mustachioed Ashish Joshi, who was the head of CEI's Pune office. Until recently, CEI was a CONVERGE distributor, and Ashish sold CONVERGE and provided technical support to many CONVERGE...
Designing Wind Farms with CONVERGE
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I once saw a wind turbine blade traveling on an open-bed truck on a back country highway. It was more than a hundred feet long, white, smooth, and curved, and it filled me with awe. How very far we have come since a fictional Don Quixote tilted at windmills[1]: we build these giant blades that sweep...