Talking CFD
A podcast for self-confessed CFD nerds đ¤ A show where we geek out on CFD-related stuff, talk to founders about their CFD âjourneyâ & chat with industry experts about what CFD looks like in their world. Itâs not technical, itâs never technical, but it is niche. So, if you know your lattice from your Boltzman & a discontinuous Galerkin doesnât sound like a medical condition, then youâre in the right place. This is the show for you & you are most welcome đ
Episodes
January 21, 2020 ⢠53 mins
Itâs the last show of Season 04 (time flies when youâre podcasting) & Simon & I are back chatting about the most recent shows, the season just gone & our thoughts/plans for 2020:
- Simon reveals his ultra-personalised, CFD-powered, custom surfboard & custom wave idea #futurist đ¤
- Cloud HPC experiences including:
- AWS ParallelCluster - https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/parallelcluster/
- HPCBox from Drizti (a new one on me, but Simon...
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January 14, 2020 ⢠28 mins
Time for the last insight episode of the season - I hope you've enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed doing them?
In today's episode I had the pleasure of talking to Riccardo Rossi about combining his experience in fluid dynamics research with his passion for surfing and the intricacies of applying CFD to the design of surfboards.
We barely scratch the surface of this fascinating topic, but Riccardo introduces us to some of the c...
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January 7, 2020 ⢠35 mins
I've wanted to have a guest on the show to chat about artificial intelligence & machine learning in relation to CFD for a while now. It keeps coming up in other discussions but this is the first founder interview where I get to scratch the surface of this huge topic.
Today Iâm talking to Lieven Vervecken one of the founders of Belgian CFD startup Diabatix - mixing AI/ML with generative design, optimisation & traditional CFD meth...
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December 10, 2019 ⢠48 mins
Itâs the last episode of 2019 & weâre introducing a new section of the show called âgrumpy old CFDistas get a bit bah humbug about stuffâ which may not become a regular feature.
Some of the things on our radar this episode includeâŚ
⢠Cybertruck simulations on LinkedIn
⢠In awe of Patrickâs CFD skills & PreonLabâs renderings
⢠the âimportanceâ of aerodynamics for battery electric vehicles (& the importance of not getting too...
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December 3, 2019 ⢠29 mins
In todayâs episode we welcome back previous guest, friend of the show and all-round CFD expert, Patrick Hanley.
The last time Patrick was on the show we spoke about his experience as an independent CFD software vendor. This time weâre hearing about his adventures designing âflying carsâ as part of the mobility startup Terrafugia.
We cover a lot of ground, including, but not limited to:
⢠How speed of execution is critical ...
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November 26, 2019 ⢠30 mins
Today Iâm chatting with Jens Cornelis, one of the founders of FIFTY2 Technology â CFD software developers based in Freiburg, Germany & home to the particle-based CFD code PreonLab.
Jens shares some of the story of FIFTY2 Technology & the development of what became PreonLab, including:
⢠why PreonLab is about more than just pretty pictures (but boy, do they make some pretty pictures) & whether using a CFD package can actually ...
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November 19, 2019 ⢠47 mins
Simon & I celebrate 50 episodes of this podcast, share our thoughts on the last 2 shows & disappear down a few tangential rabbit holes. Itâs just your typical social episode really, including:
⢠getting it done - having ideas & then executing on them (even without a coffee boost)
⢠different ways to make CFD more accessible (AirShaper & Discovery Live) - a.k.a. âgetting your 80%â
⢠how âdemocratisationâ might have got lost in ...
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November 12, 2019 ⢠29 mins
In our third insight episode, Kurt Smithgall, formally of S20 Design, takes us into the fast-flowing world of whitewater-park design or, to borrow a phrase from Kurt - ârecreational hydraulics.â
Kurt gives us an insight into how CFD is helping in the design of whitewater parks & some of the challenges therein - including:
⢠mitigating the risk of building a water park that doesnât work
⢠dealing with uncertainty in geometry ...
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November 5, 2019 ⢠38 mins
You may have noticed that Iâm a big fan of doing CFD in the cloud & a big fan of interesting CFD companies, so todayâs interview is a particular favourite. Iâm talking with Wouter Remmerie, founder of AirShaper a cloud CFD platform aiming to make aerodynamic analysis more accessible & affordable.
Wouter shares his experiences, thoughts & stories on:
⢠his sports car ambitions & death-defying aerodynamic testing
⢠âblack boxâ...
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October 29, 2019 ⢠49 mins
In this weekâs round of CFD pub chat Simon & I share our takeaways from the recent episodes, plus what weâve been up to since last time, including (but not limited to):
⢠fancy optimisation stuff
⢠going (or not going) to conferences
⢠sharing your work & secret customers đ¤Ť
⢠plus, we solve the cloud vs. in-house debate âď¸
Links to things we mentioned
⢠NAFEMS conference on simulation-based optimisation
- https://www.na...
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October 22, 2019 ⢠31 mins
In the second of our "insights" series Brian Willis, of specialist engineering consultancy Astrimar, is taking us deep into the world of CFD for oil & gas. Not deep into the technicals, but deep under the ocean & into the mud. Hold onto to your headphones, weâre going downhole for a spot of plugging & abandonment.
Brian gives us a flavour of what CFD looks like in this particular niche - whatâs tricky & whatâs commonplace, inclu...
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October 15, 2019 ⢠31 mins
You wait around for a CFD consultant interview & then two come along at once. This is the second âfounderâ interview of the season & the second CFD consultant - duff scheduling, my bad.
Today Iâm chatting with James Linfield, one half of the dynamic duo behind Navier Flow Consultants â a (relatively) new CFD consultancy based in Nottingham, UK.
James gives us the benefit of his recent experience & shares his take on:
⢠the...
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October 8, 2019 ⢠55 mins
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It's time for another a round of "social" episodes. In this season, Simon & I will be discussing our takeaways from the latest interviews, sharing cool CFD-things weâve seen on the internets & generally shooting the CFD-breeze. It's the kind of conversation you might have in the pub with your fellow CFD-nerds - if you're not too busy meshing, that is.
This week we touch on:
⢠what weâve been up to (itâs be...
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October 1, 2019 ⢠33 mins
This is the first of our new style of shows where I talk to CFD practitioners / experts / âthose that doâ to find out what CFD looks like in their world.
We typically start these episodes with an overview of how CFD gets used in their industry, then zero in on some of the uniquely challenging aspects and dig a little deeper.
In this show Iâm talking to Stefano Capra of engineering consulting giants Ramboll, about some of the ...
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September 24, 2019 ⢠42 mins
Itâs the first episode of Season 04 & weâre back with the usual problem - how to condense 25+ years experience running a simulation business into a single episode. We fail (as usual) but it still makes for an interesting show.
In this episode Iâm talking with Eric Miller, one of founding team of PADT â an expert simulation consultancy which first opened its doors 25 years ago this year.
Eric shares his thoughts on:
- migrating f...
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September 16, 2019 ⢠1 min
A quick heads-up that Season 04 of Talking CFD is inbound, with new episodes starting 24th September 2019.
Please make sure you're subscribed in your favourite podcast app & following us on the socials to make sure you don't miss a thing.
www.talkingcfd.com
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August 13, 2018 ⢠42 mins
Someone once described these episodes as Simon and I "noodling it out" - you get to listen to us working through our thoughts and (hopefully) coming to some conclusions or at least giving you something to think about. And that description probably best fits this episode.
We started out with a provocative-ish question, left over from the NAFEMS episode & expanded from there. We didn't put this one to bed, but instead we opened up...
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August 6, 2018 ⢠40 mins
We don't get out much. So when one of us does manage to break away from our workstation and get to a conference, it's worth talking about. Simon gives us the lowdown from the NAFEMS UK conference including his key takeaways, what themes stood out & what was missing.
Question of the day "which conferences are worth getting out of the office for and why?"
Conference Link â https://www.nafems.org/2018/uk/
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July 30, 2018 ⢠61 mins
In this episode we break down some of the NASA CFD Vision 2030 document, to see if our vision of CFD in 2030 looks anything like NASA's (spoiler alert - not so much ;-).
We pick out some of what we feel are the most important topics & put them in context of where we (Simon & I - not the industry as a whole) are now & where we think they're going.
Plus I expand on why I think this document is actually just a shopping list for ...
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July 23, 2018 ⢠54 mins
We've still got our head in the the clouds this week, covering some of the topics we didn't touch in the last episode. Including âbut not limited toâ addressing your cloud security concerns by having a cloud-in-a-box delivered to your front door (not exactly elastic computing). The data transfer conundrum & why I think that you need to think a little differently when it comes to putting a cloud CFD workflow together.
We also go ...
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