Mentor Blogs

It’s no secret that the economic downturn is prevailing far longer than financial and economic pundits even predicted; layoffs in the mil/aero industry, like various other markets, continue. Companies are doing more with less, and requiring employees to multitask more than ever before. It is not uncommon today to find a single employee today handling the same responsibilities and workload of two or … Read More

Engineer, Geek, nasa, CAE, Mentor.com, CFD. computational fluid dynamics, Mil-Aero, Milaero, Aerospace, Military, MCAD, Design Automation, MCAM, Mentor, Computer, Mentor Graphics

Never trust a TLA (three-letter acronym) or those who use them, unless the abbreviation provides some value in terms of repetitive usage  or is accepted as an industry standard. Too often TLAs are used as a screen between those who are listening and the incompetence of the person talking. TIGs (thermally insignificant geometries) as a TLA is neither useful nor accepted, I just made it up. Thermally … Read More

modelling, Electronics Cooling, flomcad, CFD, Model, Modeling, MCAD

I recently read an excellent white paper from Cyon Research titled “Classes of MCAE Software: Clarifying the Market”.   It spoke about the requirement in the industry and the characteristics for CFD software packages that were targeted for use by the CFD specialist.  It also emphasized that the emerging need was for CFD software that could be used by the design engineer who was not a CFD specialist. … Read More

EFD, CAE, Computational Fluid Dynamics, FloEFD, CFD, MCAD, Mechanical Analysis, Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer

We are all familiar with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).  Some of YOU are experts in this science/art and use it on a daily basis to solve some of your most complex fluid flow and heat transfer problems.  Some of US can hardly spell CFD and as engineers design their products they depend heavily on the CFD specialists to perform the simulations that determine if what they are designing will work … Read More

Mechanical Design, Mechanical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, FloEFD, CFD, MCAD, MCAE, Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer