Model Tolerances
“It takes a bit of experience and understanding”
Surrogate Models
“routine tasks … become impossible since they require thousands or even millions of simulation evaluations”
Multi-Grids and mesh-generation
“still a source of new insight and of unexpected new applications”
Dual Profiles
“supplier must ensure the end product will be within engineering tolerance/specification”
“CSV files can be easily built with scripting languages or exported at the end of CFD runs”
Preserve CAD names on Import
“[T]he bane of the CAD/CAM/CAE world for years remains with us to this day”
CAD Model Validation
Twenty years ago [some] of these solutions might have had merit; but today … “
Ensembles – avoid information overload
“take on or be inundated by more than one is capable of handling”
Base Names and Multiple Entities
“In many languages, the class name is used as the name for the class”
Polygon Models to CAD: Can vs. Should
“Letting ‘I dare not‘ wait upon ‘I would‘”