Links - Online Communitites
Contents:
Online Forums
- CFD Online Discussion Forums
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- An gathering place on the web where you can meet and discuss with fellow
CFD colleagues from all over the world. The forums are visited by thousands
of CFD engineers every day and have more than 75,000 archived messages. You
can also find several code-specific forums here (CFX, Fluent, Numeca, PHOENICS and STAR-CD).
The forums are monitored by most CFD code vendors. If you have any CFD related
questions or want to stay in touch with what happens in the CFD world then
this is the perfect place to go. The only real alternative to the CFD Online
Discussion Forum is the CFD newsgroup listed below.
- ASME Communities of Practise
- Has several CFD related forums covering different application areas in
mechanical engineering. Most boards are a bit silent though and you have to register to get access to them.
- CFD Review
- A slashdot style forum for CFD. Most posts are press-releases.
- CFDBible
- A Yahoo! group about CFD. Not a lot of traffic.
Usenet Newsgroups
CFD and Fluids
- sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics
- Discussion about CFD and CFD related issues. Has a fair amount of traffic
and several gurus follow the group - highly recommended !
- sci.mech.fluids
- More oriented towards the physical aspects of fluids and fluid flow. s.p.c.f-d
is usually better but this group is good to.
Large Scale Fluid Dynamics
- sci.geo.fluids
- sci.geo.meteorology
- sci.geo.oceanography
Other Groups
These groups are usually not about CFD, but sometimes CFD relates issues are
discussed.
- sci.math.num-analysis
- sci.nonlinear
- sci.physics
- sci.aeronautics
- sci.aeronautics.simulation
- sci.engr
- sci.engr.marine.hydrodynamics
- sci.engr.mech
- sci.engr.chem
Archives
- Google Groups
- Archives of most newsgroups, including the sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics group.
Google Groups also offers search capabilities.
Mailing Lists
Most of the old CFD related mailing lists have died out. If you know of a CFD
related mailing list that is still active please inform me of where it is located,
what it covers and how you subscribe to it. Good places to look for mailing lists
are:
L-Soft,
Tile.net and
Topica.
You can also search for
CFD
groups at Yahoo. Here are a few lists that still have some traffic:
- Turbulence, JISCMail
- A mailing list for discussions about turbulence. There is also an archive
with old message. Very low volume, almost dead.
- CGNS Talk
- A mailing list for discussions about the new open CFD dataformat CGNS (CFD
General Notation System ). A few mails a week.
- Mathematical Fluids Mailing List
- A low-volume list dedicated to the mathematics of fluid dynamics. Most
posts are announcements - not much discussion.
- Lattice Boltzmann Mailing List
- A medium-volume list dedicated to Lattice Boltzmann methods for simulation
of fluid flow.
- feuser, JISCMail
- For people using and developing Finite Elements and Finite Difference software.
Medium traffic (one or a few messages a day).
Chats
There used to be a #CFD channel on
IRC but
it seldom exists any more. Hopefully something else will soon replace it. Real-time
discussions with colleagues all over the world would be nice !
