Dear community, I hope you are doing good, I am simulating the the conduction heat transfer in borosilicate glass plate , where a thin film of gold Nanoparticles are deposited on surface and irradiated by laser , the generated heat was already calculated using Mie theory , I would like to use laplacianFoam solver to simulate the conduction in the solid plate , unfortunately this solver don't support the convection condition, How can I adjust this solver to make it support the convection boundary condition? Or, What you suggest as solver for this problem? Best

Hey Guys, Thank you for the weekly meet on Monday (13th May). We had a fruitful discussion about CFD, working towards our passion and getting started. There is a lot of software applications widely used in CFD, both, commercially and open-source for simulations, processing data and post-processing. One thing commonly aligned with both of these is the ability to code. In more recent times, I have understood and appreciate the need for proper codes to run, process, automate and post-process CFD data. Traditionally FORTRAN was and still is used in places to test in-house codes or as introduction to scientific coding. More popular now is C and C++ to meet those demands. MATLAB/python is also used to develop CFD codes and to post-process data. The knowledge to know which coding language, process data sets and how to effectively manage huge sets of coding files through source control (Github) is, in my personal opinion, a big asset and a necessary skillset for any CFD engineer. If you are more interested in getting started in CFD and also in coding, I would like to direct you to https://cfd.university/ . This is a website setup by my Course Director Dr. Tom Teschner (Cranfield University) who has expertise in developing code in C and formerly worked with the DLR in Germany. He covers topics for getting into CFD and understanding coding for CFD (development, management, debugging etc.). It gets updated weekly! I just wanted to share my thoughts and hear some opinion on this matter from the people in this community.

Thanks very much for attending today and thanks for all your kind feedback on Topmate! This means a lot to me 😌 Will send the relevant info soon through the next article of the CFD Dose newsletter - stay tuned ;)

Hello everyone, I just found a post on linkedin regarding a free online workshop by FlowThermoLab about an introduction to machine learning for fluid dynamics on may 6. If anyone is interested here is the link to register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv90Y-V7T1tiSqVkjS3J3w4DCublRqs9rcBzsvha96bIc7Rg/viewform

Hi everyone, for those of you who don't know, I recently embarked on a new challenge to build a GUI tool for T-Flows. So far I've picked 4/5 people to start developing the tool with me and I couldn't be more excited to start sharing the progress with you soon 😌 Just like building any new tool, this one will be a long journey (of continuous development), so let's make it an enjoyable one together! That said, I'd appreciate the feedback from each of you as we go, so we can craft a smooth but robust software together 🙌