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Monitoring Time History of Flow Variables

11 Nov 2022 By Ben Yuan
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(Approximate reading time: 5mins) In the recent release-22.3.3.0 of Flow360 a new point monitoring feature has been added to help users track time history of flow variables like velocity and pressure. This is a useful feature for acquiring physical quantities of interest in unsteady simulations as well as diagnosing solver divergence without dumping volumetric solution files frequently. Some applications of the feature include probing pressure on the wing surface to compare against pressure tap measurements and probing flow velocities at...

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Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short TakeOff and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft (Part 3 of 3)

21 Oct 2022 By CJ Doolittle
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In this third and final installment, we present the results obtained from our extensive parameter study of an eSTOL aircraft using computational fluid dynamics. As we have mentioned in the previous articles, it is useful to study the individual components of an eSTOL aircraft to get a better understanding of the fluid dynamics involved. Be sure to check out PART I of the series to get a better understanding of why such a study is important and PART II to...

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Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short TakeOff and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft (Part 2 of 3)

14 Oct 2022 By CJ Doolittle
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In PART I of this series, we presented why an eSTOL aircraft is important for future urban transportation and laid the foundation for carrying out a systematic study of its fluid dynamics. Here, we will discuss several propulsion approximations which are used in this context and how we can use the Finite Volume technique to model the associated Navier-Stokes equations. Part III will showcase the results from this study and how they helped us to better understand the fluid dynamics...

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Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short TakeOff and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft (Part 1 of 3)

07 Oct 2022 By CJ Doolittle
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In this article we describe our efforts in collaboration with Electra to model an eSTOL aircraft using computational fluid dynamics. The full article consists of three parts: Part I provides essential background motivation for carrying out this study and how we section the full problem into smaller pieces. Part II will detail the modeling strategy and discuss the computational fluid dynamics approach. Part III will showcase the results from this study and how they helped us to better understand the...

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Shanhui Fan Awarded the R. W. Wood Prize

27 Apr 2022 By Tom Chen
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Flexcompute Co-Founder and Stanford Professor Shanhui Fan was awarded the 2022 R. W. Wood Prize by Optica for his contributions to the fields of photonics and optics as a whole. ![Shanhui Fan was awarded the 2022 R. W. Wood Prize by Optica](/uploads/20220428-image003.jpg “Shanhui Fan Awarded the R. W. Wood Prize Flexcompute”){: width=”366” height=”512”} Prof. Shanhui Fan has been awarded numerous accolades for his research and contributions to the field of photonics, but as a member of Optica since his graduate...

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