# CFD Projects at AI Tinkerers

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CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) uses numerical methods to simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transport: it replaces physical testing with high-fidelity virtual analysis.

CFD is a core engineering tool: it solves the Navier-Stokes equations to accurately model complex fluid systems. The workflow is three-part: pre-processing (meshing the geometry), running the solver (iterative calculations), and post-processing (visualization and data analysis). Major commercial packages like Ansys Fluent and Siemens STAR-CCM+ drive industrial applications, with OpenFOAM leading the open-source community. We leverage this capability across diverse industries: optimizing F1 car aerodynamics, modeling blood flow in biological engineering, and validating HVAC system performance. CFD significantly reduces physical prototyping cycles and costs.

- Official technology site: https://www.ansys.com/products/fluids/computational-fluid-dynamics-cfd-simulation-software
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Vertical agents for end-to-end drone design](https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ui_a_S-v_t4)

I'm working on Isembard - a tool aiming to orchestrate and automate CAD and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tasks by combining these tasks with LLMs and reasoning models. I'll be presenting progress so far (early days) - showing what decisions the LLM calls are currently controlling, and inviting ideas on how higher-level planning of designs could be controlled via reasoning models working upon a knowledge base, and armed with a library of modules for performing CAD/CFD tasks

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - San Francisco - February 2025 Demos + Science Fair — 2025-02-28 — San Francisco
- Public talk page: https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ui_a_S-v_t4

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