Amazing! Chris Land is a high school teacher at Sussex County Technical School in New Jersey. He and his students compete against universities (yeah, universities) from the US, Mexico, Canada and the UK in a human powered submarine race. They are using Upfront CFD to compare their designs prior to prototyping. So even high schools appreciate faster, cheaper, better. Read the whole story here.
Very cool testament to how far along CFD software has come. I am a firm believer that all engineering software should be developed for the masses. It wasn't too long ago that an executive at a traditional CFD company compared Upfront CFD to "giving guns to children". Whoa, pretty heavy comparison.
The classic line "garbage in, garbage out" still applies. Engineering software should be developed for the masses, but users should attend training and understand the problem that they are trying to solve.
Clearly, high school students aren't expected to know everything about fluid mechanics in order to design a human powered submarine. But, with the guidance of their teacher they are certainly capable of interpreting whether one design is better than the other. This is the premise of Upfront CFD.
Funny how it parallels real life. Numerous companies have their designers running Upfront CFD and the results are being verified by a more experienced user.
CAD has becoming easier and easier to use, so only makes sense for Upfront Simulation to follow the trend.
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