Presenters Named for Pointwise User Group Meeting

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Presenters have been announced for the Pointwise User Group Meeting in Fort Worth, TX, on 8-9 November. Presentations range from aerospace and wind energy to design and a billion-cell meshing case study.

Presenters and their topics are

• Derick Endicott, Ohio Northern University: Boundary Layer Separation Control on a Circular Cylinder Using Embedded Heaters
• Dr. Mikhail Grigoriev, Cameron Compression Systems: Automated Finite Element Mesh Generation for Centrifugal Impeller Blades
• T.J. Hoverman and Perry Wooden, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company: Advanced Unstructured Grid Generation
• Dr. Steve Karman, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Hybrid Adaptive Meshing Using Pointwise and Vmesh
• Aaron Long, the University of Texas at Arlington: Developments in Low-Speed Aerodynamics for the 2012 Formula SAE Car
• Andy Luo, Swift Engineering: Generating Billion-Cell Grids
• Dr. Ralph Noack, Celeritas Simulation Technology, LLC: A Brief Introduction to Overset/Chimera Grid Technology
• Eduardo Perez, Texas A&M University: Stability of Hypersonic Flows
• Swati Saxena, Pennsylvania State University: Jet Flow Simulation Using Structured Multi-Block Mesh
• Jeremy Shipman, CRAFT Tech, Inc.: Multi-Physics Analyses of Large Scale Systems Using Pointwise and CRUNCH CFD
• David Vaitekunas, W.R. Davis Engineering Ltd.: Improved Thermal Signature Analysis Through Coupling of ShipIR and CFD
• Dr. Nobuhiro Yamanishi and Dr. Naoki Tani, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): An End-to-End High Fidelity Numerical Simulation of the LE-X Engine – Grid Generation Challenge for Full-Scale Rocket Engine Simulation