It’s useful if your CAE application’s API supports Python, for a variety of reasons – see this and this, for example. To extend the benefits a little more, consider parallel processing. Start with this central reference to understand the options, then see this article for a good set of exercises.

This article on turbulence modeling touches upon the raison d’etre for Pointwise: the effect of the grid on the simulation. Several articles on the blog are worth reviewing: this is a good place to start!

Wrapping up this year’s posts on CAD is an example of how to make the best of poor-quality CAD for CAE. Not the ideal basis to build your CAE model, of course, but if it can’t be cured … perhaps AutoSeal can help. See this article for an outline on approach that worked well for an automotive application. This 2 minute video outlines how it works.