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Against the general feeling that ‘CFD is solved’, I offer a few remarks from the trenches. When performing large-scale simulations of geometrically and physically complex flows, the notion of reliable, cost-effective, widely applicable and easy-to-use CFD still appears more as fiction than reality. The present monograph addresses some major areas where progress is urgently required. These areas are listed in the order a typical CFD run proceeds: model import/creation, grid generation, flow solvers, mesh adaptation and quality control. Finally, with a view towards the coming decade, code, data and project management are discussed.
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Löhner, R. (1998). On Some Outstanding Issues in CFD (1996). In: Venkatakrishnan, V., Salas, M.D., Chakravarthy, S.R. (eds) Barriers and Challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics. ICASE/LaRC Interdisciplinary Series in Science and Engineering, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5169-6_10
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