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Flow5 released to open source

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GranPCtoday at 4:29 AM

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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euroderftoday at 10:56 AM

Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.

samuelltoday at 9:00 AM

Curious that this hit the front page.

What kind of projects is this software used for?

serftoday at 7:59 AM

>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

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