The ROI of AI, GPU-Native Aerodynamics Solver & CFD Lectures by Philippe Spalart

📚 “Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

Jun 15, 2025

💻 Measuring the ROI of AI: Key Drivers, KPIs & Challenges

As you might have seen, I am starting to post more on how businesses can benefit from AI, not only from the engineering side. If you’ve found yourself excited about AI’s potential but unsure where to begin, this guide is for you. We’ll unpack what ROI from AI means, which factors drive it, how to measure it, and what roadblocks to look for.

🚀 Webinar: From Nano to System Level - How the Miniaturization of Optics is Leading to New Technologies & New Design Workflows

In this webinar, my friend James Shaw will discuss optics miniaturization, its unique challenges, innovative workflows for design and analysis of metalenses, and key applications pushing the boundaries of optical system performance.

🚀 THE MOST-TRUSTED GPU-NATIVE CFD FOR ADVANCED AVIATION

High-fidelity physics simulation

💦 CFD Essentials: Lecture 6 - The Mechanics of Turbulent CFD

Philippe Spalart discusses the mechanics of running a turbulent CFD simulation:

The pre-processing steps
Generating grids
Obtaining solutions
Understanding the solution and using it for engineering purposes

💻 Validation and Insight Using Ansys Mechanical

Reviewing the calculated results is the most critical part of any simulation. Evaluating deformation and stresses is a primary objective of our analysis, and we may need to determine our engineered design’s safety factors.

🎬 Video of the Week

💻 Engineering Tool of the Week – SplashFOAM

Splash is a general-purpose CFD Simulation Software Package. As a first delivery of the Splash Suite, SplashFOAM software integrates free open-source OpenFOAM^® libraries, while offering a user-friendly GUI – graphical user interface as a commercial CFD tool.

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