Entries for July 2016

This is the third part of a long blog post, see the first part here and the second here.

On the 30th:

• I arrived at around 08h10, had to meet+talk with Miguel Nóbrega to see how the clinics sessions were going to be organized.
• The first (and only) lecture was given by Fred Mendonça, with the title "Custodians of OpenFOAM®".
  • He told us about his career experience. In a nutshell: a lot of experience, both CFD and business/management!
  • Told us and showed us a map

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This is the second part of a long blog post, see the first part here.

Continuing about the 29th:

• Next was Robin Knowles presentation, with a pretty awesome presentation on the first season of 12 pod-casts he's done with CFD experts, although mostly oriented to the business side of things. He told us a bit about himself and his career; then he gave the highlights of the podcasts.
  • One of the highlights that stuck with me was the one about Patrick Hanley of Hanley Innovations,

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While the latest OpenFOAM-dev and 4.0 snapshots are building on my machine, I'm taking the opportunity to write a bit of what happened at the 11th community OpenFOAM Workshop this year (2016), at least from my point of view. I'm not going to write everything, otherwise it would be a short book, including information that was damaged due to memory compression in my mind.

I've been using OpenFOAM since 2009 and only this year did I finally manage to go to an international community workshop...