If you loose a face for some reason on a BC ther eis lack of
robustness in the rebuild function to get the fix to stick. Some
time it requires going back to SWX and others it required an exit
and reload to get he rebuild to execute properly. Not a big deal
but a bit of a pain. Otherswise it seems to work as well as before.
The scaling for hte multi CPU's is a long way from ideal but
hopefully they can improve that over time. It is definitely a
really welcome capabaility even though I am a touch greedy ont he
subject. Many CFD codes get near linear scaling on low numbers of
CPU's. Hopefully Flow Sim. can get near that as well.
The call outs for BC's are very handy as well. It would be nice
though it they enabled it for all items in the specification tree -
like goals, material definitions, disabled components, inital
conditions, mesh controls, etc. It would also be really nice if for
volume specifc items the callouts pointed to the volumes C of G and
for surfaces it pointed to the face centroid, and the centers of
anything else that gets added. Further on call outs I have had
cases where multiple call out leaders are applied to a single body
with uniform heat genration - a bit confusing as one might think
that mutiple powers or some other distribution than uniform is
implied. It would also be nice if the renamed lables in the tree
were passed to the call outs - it would remove a lot of writing
from reports to ensure clarity.
Further coloumb heat generation would be handy. Say you pick a
volume heat source and give it resistive properties in given
directions, supply a current exit location, volume unifrom "current
generation" and then the heat genration would be proportional to
the path length and current density. admittedly, I haven't thought
that one out that well but something that gets it in theball park
would be really handy when dealing with battery cooling which is
becoming a very hot topic these days. Punn fully intended.
Oct 24, 2008 11:45 AM
Hi Mike,
Ian
If you loose a face for some reason on a BC ther eis lack of robustness in the rebuild function to get the fix to stick. Some time it requires going back to SWX and others it required an exit and reload to get he rebuild to execute properly. Not a big deal but a bit of a pain. Otherswise it seems to work as well as before.