The Pointwise User Group Meeting 2008 was held in Fort Worth, Texas on November 5-6, 2008. Events included special Pointwise and Gridgen training seminars, presentations by Pointwise staff on new product developments, exhibits by our partners, and user presentations.

Agenda | Keynote Speaker | Exhibiting Partners | Training Sessions

Agenda

Wednesday, November 5 - Training
Beg.	End	Event	Room
8:00	8:30	Registration & Continental Breakfast	Synergy Foyer
8:30	10:00	Gridgen New Features	Synergy II
10:00	10:15	Break	Synergy Foyer
10:15	12:00	Pointwise New Features, Part 1	Synergy II
12:00	1:30	Buffet Lunch	Atrium
1:30	2:30	Pointwise New Features, Part 2	Synergy II
2:30	3:00	Break with Dessert	Synergy Foyer
3:00	5:00	Pointwise New Features, Part 3	Synergy II
6:30	8:00	Welcome Reception & Partner Exhibits	Synergy Foyer
Thursday, November 6 - General Session
Beg.	End	Event	Room
8:00	8:30	Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Vendor Exhibits	Synergy Foyer
8:30	8:45	Welcome & Introductions	Synergy I
8:45	9:15	Current Status of Pointwise & Gridgen, John Chawner, President, Pointwise	Synergy I
9:15	10:00	Keynote Presentation, Jon Beesley, Director and Chief Test Pilot, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics	Synergy I
10:00	10:30	Break & Partner Exhibits	Synergy Foyer
10:30	4:15	Support Consultations (Sign up at the Registration Desk.)	Synergy III
10:30	11:00	Water Tank and Clearwell Analysis Using Computational Methods, George Shrewsbury, Pointwise	Synergy I
11:00	11:30	Grid Generation Using Pointwise at Ohio Nothern University, Jed E. Marquart, Ohio Northern University	Synergy I
11:30	12:00	Withdrawn ~~JSC Channel Nozzle ArcJet: An Application of Hybrid Topology Gridding~~ ~~Jeremiah Marichalar, Jacobs Engineering~~	Synergy I
12:00	1:00	Lunch	Atrium
1:00	1:30	Customer Support: Underused Features in Gridgen and Pointwise, Richard Matus, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Pointwise	Synergy I
1:30	2:00	Pointwise/Gridgen at the U.S. Army AMRDEC, Ed Vaughn, U.S. Army Aviation & Missile RDEC	Synergy I
2:00	2:30	Polyhedral Mesh Support and Dynamic Mesh features in OpenFOAM, Hrvoje Jasak, Wikki Ltd.	Synergy I
2:30	3:30	CFD Gallery	Synergy Foyer
3:30	4:00	Analysis of Complex Problems with Advanced CFD Models Using Gridgen and Pointwise, Jeremy D. Shipman, Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc.	Synergy I
4:00	4:30	Progress Towards Full Aircraft Flight Simulation with Control Surface Deflections, Ken Wurtzler, Cobalt Solutions LLC	Synergy I
4:30	5:00	Gridgen and Frontflow/Blue for Large Scale Computations, Sawa Yoshiyuki, VINAS Co. Ltd.	Synergy I
4:00	5:30	The Future of Pointwise & Gridgen, John Chawner, President, Pointwise	Synergy I
6:30	8:30	After Party	Fox & Hound

Keynote Speaker

We are pleased to announce that the Pointwise User Group Meeting 2008 keynote presentation will be given by Mr. Jon Beesley, Director and Chief Test Pilot at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Mr. Beesley is currently the Chief Test Pilot on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and made the first flight of that aircraft on 15 December 2006. For his work on the F-35 Mr. Beesley was awarded his second Ivan C. Kincheloe award from the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. His first Kincheloe was awarded based on his contributions to the F-117 stealth fighter program on which he was one of the first pilots. Mr. Beesley has also contributed to the flight test programs of the F-22 Raptor and F-16 Red Eye. For his career achievements as a test pilot, Mr. Beesley was awarded the Chuck Yeager award in 2000 by the Engineers Council of Southern California. For a detailed biography, click here.

CFD Gallery & Exhibits

Special time will be available during the Pointwise User Group Meeting for you to visit with our exhibiting partners and learn more about how Gridgen and Pointwise complement their products offerings. For more information about our partners, see the Pointwise UGM CFD Gallery page.

Special Pointwise and Gridgen Training Sessions

Training sessions on Wednesday, November 5 will cover the latest features in both Pointwise and Gridgen. The Gridgen session will cover new features that you may not be aware of that can save time meshing. An introductory section for Pointwise will help users new to the software pick up some of the basics of the interface. A Pointwise preview session will allow attendees to see the new features coming in the next release of Pointwise. The training sessions will also include hands-on exercises for attendees to try out firsthand the features discussed.