Flow5 released to open source
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Flow5 released to open source
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Re: Flow5 released to open source
#2Context 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.
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#3Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#4Context 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.
With so many things being called Flow these days, this one is probably the most fitting.
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#5>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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#6Curious that this hit the front page.
What kind of projects is this software used for?
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#7Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#8>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads. music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.
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.
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#9Curious that this hit the front page. What kind of projects is this software used for?
> 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.
Re: Flow5 released to open source
#10>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads. music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.
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.