Recent News Releases from Pointwise

15 April 2021

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced today that it has acquired Pointwise, Inc., a leader in mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

16 February 2021

The latest release of Pointwise’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software includes a native interface to the AzoreCFD flow solver.

8 February 2021

Pointwise released the case study, “28X Increase in Simulation Speed by Using Pointwise Meshes.” which explains how in collaboration with NASA GRC, ADSCFD applied the ADSCFD GPU accelerated CFD with Pointwise meshes to reduce simulation times by 28x.

1 February 2021

Pointwise, Inc. has been awarded the designation of a Best Place for Working Parents 2021 in Fort Worth. We share this designation with other businesses who are leading the way in supporting their employees, specifically working parents, through family-friendly workplace policies and practices.

8 December 2020

Pointwise published the case study, “Mesh Adaptation That Works,” which explains how Pointwise and ISimQ have developed a new mesh adaption process that achieves the hopes and promises of adaption from long ago by removing mesh generator skill from the CFD analysis process to produce consistent, high-quality simulation results.

2 November 2020

Pointwise released a webinar with FlexCompute entitled, “Mesh and Run a High-Fidelity Aircraft Simulation in Minutes,” that will help boost productivity while simultaneously ensuring mesh consistency and reliability across your organization.

26 October 2020

Pointwise is hosting a five-day virtual event during the week of 9 November to introduce Flashpoint Automatic Surface Meshing and other time-saving features new in Pointwise V18.4.

13 October 2020

The latest release of Pointwise’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software includes automatic surface meshing, the first component of a planned suite of automation features called Flashpoint.

8 October 2020

Pointwise, Inc. has signed a distributorship agreement with Tecplot Europe to market, sell and support Pointwise, its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) preprocessing software in Europe.

22 September 2020

Pointwise released a webinar detailing how to accelerate CFD simulation convergence rate and improve accuracy using adapted meshing. Nick Wyman, Pointwise and Paul Galpin, iSimQ walk you through the process for developing a solution-based mesh adaptation schema.

10 August 2020

Pointwise released the webinar, “Understanding Tractor Trailer Aerodynamics Using a Time Accurate Approach,” which shows how multi-block hybrid meshing techniques can improve mesh quality and concentrate mesh density in areas of interest.

28 July 2020

Pointwise released a webinar where Chris Sideroff, Ph.D., managing director of Applied CCM Canada, uses Pointwise and the Caelus Python Library to understand the influence exerted by the turbulence model on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation results for the FDA Blood Pump benchmark geometry.

14 July 2020

Pointwise releases the case study, "Pointwise Enables Accurate CFD for Nuclear Reactor Rod Bundles," explaining how Michael Böttcher of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology leverages Pointwise meshing techniques to enable accurate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results for nuclear reactor rod bundles at stringent convergence levels, which cannot be achieved with automatic "free" meshing alone.

29 June 2020

The latest release of Pointwise’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software accelerates its surface meshing process by up to a factor of five on benchmark grids.

24 June 2020

Pointwise released a webinar where Amine Ben Haj Ali, senior engineering specialist from Bombardier, explains the Meshing & Adaptive Re-meshing Server (MARS) which automatically generates meshes.

8 June 2020

Pointwise releases the case study, “Accurate Performance Predictions for Marine Propellers,” providing benchmark validation for accurate performance of CFD simulation results.

26 May 2020

Pointwise has released a webinar hosted by neptech AB and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology entitled “Simulation of in-flight icing on UAVs.”

11 May 2020

Pointwise published the case study, “Pointwise Used in Topology Optimization of Automotive Components,” that explains how Pointwise’s unstructured mesh generation with Helyx Adjoint sensitivity based shape optimization enables fully automated performance-driven design shape evolution.

8 May 2020

The on-demand webinar, “Solution-Based Mesh Adaptation with Pointwise and ANSYS CFX” hosted by Nick Wyman and Steve Karman, Pointwise; and Paul Galpin, ISimQ is now available.

20 April 2020

“CAD-Based Design Optimization of a Race Car Front Wing,” a joint webinar from Pointwise and Phoenix Integration about automated meshing enabled push-button design optimization has been released.