Not only were CFD sims cheaper than wind tunnel time, but they were also much faster at iterating. Early design work is now done in silico before being validated with scale models in a wind tunnel, as ...

FIGURE 1: Envenio performed a case study for HVAC design of an aircraft hangar, and the above image shows a collection of outputs. The full case article can be found by clicking here. September 4, ...

Mentor Graphics announced that it has acquired theFlowmaster Group, a provider of 1-D CFD (computational fluid dynamics)simulation software for system design. 1-D CFD solutions allow rapidengineering ...

I think you gain the ability to try many permutations quickly, and importantly, you can optimize very fast once you are "in the ball park". The use case is limited for the reasons you highlight, but ...