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Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)
152 points by picture 161 days ago
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GranPC 161 days ago
Context from the homepage (https://flow5.tech):

An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers

flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.

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LASR 161 days ago
With so many things being called Flow these days, this one is probably the most fitting.
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notpushkin 161 days ago
Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5
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euroderf 161 days ago
Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.
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serf 161 days ago
>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

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tgv 161 days ago
Certain types of (numerical) problems are very parallel in nature. LLMs, for example. But obviously not every problem is. And sometimes a parallel solution isn't the most efficient.
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Y_Y 161 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
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rurban 161 days ago
We used sail7 for our sailboat, and this was already open-sourced. https://xflr5.tech/sail7/sail7.html
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samuell 161 days ago
Curious that this hit the front page.

What kind of projects is this software used for?

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taneq 161 days ago
> Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.

From the main project page. So it’s for designing aircraft, mostly.

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