Stamatina Petropoulou

GPU me up, Scotty!

February 18, 2022

With CFD on GPUs in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2022.1 we are opening the door to a new era of efficient fluid dynamics simulations.

By Stamatina Petropoulou

6 MIN READ

Adjoint Function showing sensitivity of drag obtained from veicle aerodynamics CFD simulation

Adjoint shape optimization for improved car aerodynamics

September 2, 2021

A mathematician and an aerodynamicist go to Tokyo… Have I ever told you about the time I went to Tokyo…

By Stamatina Petropoulou

6 MIN READ

Mitigating the Carbuncle effect for hypersonic CFD simulations

June 3, 2021

“If you can’t fly em, you go design em” – Every CFD engineer who dreamed of becoming an astronaut Some…

By Stamatina Petropoulou

5 MIN READ

Flow based Toplogy Optimization in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2020.3

Topology optimization – CFD creating designs like nature

October 19, 2020

It’s this time of the year that I get to go away with my family and enjoy vacations in my…

By Stamatina Petropoulou

6 MIN READ

Effortless convergence in CFD. It will make your day!

February 19, 2020

In Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2020.1 we are releasing a new Automatic CFL Control for the coupled solver providing out of the box convergence!

By Stamatina Petropoulou

6 MIN READ

Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? A true story about radiation and refraction

October 15, 2019

My youngest is 6 years old; a little boy of the new millennium. He is not interested in fairy tales….

By Stamatina Petropoulou

3 MIN READ

Austin’s butterfly and the evolution of adjoint industrial optimization

June 18, 2019

Have you ever heard of Austin’s butterfly and Student-Engaged Assessment? It’s an educational method developed by Ron Berger from EL Education. It is based on the transformational power of models, cr…

By Stamatina Petropoulou

3 MIN READ

Bridging the timescale gap in CHT applications

October 15, 2018

It’s Sunday afternoon and I am pottering about in the kitchen cooking a Sunday roast. From the living room, I can hear my two children bickering about what they are going to play with. “Why don’t we …

By Stamatina Petropoulou

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