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HYT H2 Promotional Video

The next release of the Caedium CFD software system on Windows will support the 3Dconnexion family of 3D mice.

3Dconnexion 3D Mice Ready to Control CaediumImage courtesy of 3Dconnexion

The next release of the Caedium CFD software system will include an enhanced Accuracy tool with a new maximum mesh size parameter. The new size parameter will provide a method to set an explicit physical element size for an entity (e.g., face) rather than just an interval (resolution) number as in the current version of Caedium.

Enhanced Caedium Accuracy ToolInterval-Based (left) vs Size-Based (right) Mesh Parameters

After a thorough design review I decided to reverse the Questionable Approach applied to the Caedium interface described in "Counterintuitive Usability With The Questionable Approach". I think the April Fools' Day reality distortion field got the better of me. Rest assured that the next release of Caedium will have a new set of gorgeous different icons to compliment the new ribbon-like interface.

Normality Restored

Researchers at the Media Attention Deficit (MAD) Lab recently reported findings that run counter to accepted norms in software usability design. The MAD Lab researchers found that the more difficult software was to use, the more memorable the software became. In light of this research we have replaced all the icons in Caedium with the same question mark icon in an effort to make our software more difficult to use, but easier to remember.

Questionable Approach

For the GPU Technology Conference 2013 (GTC13) I performed a series of simulations in Caedium comparing the OpenFOAM® linear solver GPU option using ofgpu with the standard CPU shared memory option using MPI. See selected slides and the presentation deck below.

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Wind Tunnel Testing

The next release of the Caedium CFD software system will have a new combined menu and toolbar often referred to as a ribbon.

Caedium Ribbon on Windows

The next release of the Caedium CFD software system will provide an option to automatically convert a RANS Flow volume mesh to a polyhedral mesh - also known as a dual mesh. Solving the RANS equations on the dual mesh compared to the equivalent tetrahedral mesh typically leads to higher accuracy results with both faster and more reliable convergence.

Polygon Surface Mesh

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