I
was asked the other day by an engineer friend of mine “what is CFD engineering?”
I had to ask what he meant. He said that his understanding of what my
company does is CFD engineering. And that he didn’t really get what
we do.
It certainly makes sense that many will not intuitively understand our consulting services when described as “CFD analysis consulting”. Kind of leaves the listener without much detail. (Unless, of course, that person is an engineer that deals with thermal or flow attributes daily and has been exposed to CFD analysis simulation software tools. In that case they’re squarely in our circles anyway.) So, I suppose having heard me describe our consulting business with CFD in there he put CFD engineering together and decided to ask the question.
So, the short
conversation prompted me to write this about CFD Engineering. First off,
for anyone that just found their way to this page and is wondering what the
letters CFD mean, here you go. CFD is Computational Fluid Dynamics.
It’s the science of using computers to simulate fluid and thermal
behavior. Wikipedia
describes it.
Think airflow through a laptop to cool the chips, a hair dryer blowing hot air, water moving through a valve or airflow over a race car.
In one sense, CFD engineering might be considered the process of engineering or designing CFD methods or developing CFD software. In another… our company, IMAGINiT, could be dubbed as doing CFD engineering in the sense that we use CFD software to solve design problems for our clients as a consulting service.
I’m very curious what engineers in the market think when they hear CFD Engineering? What are your thoughts?
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