Event Review “New Methods in CFD – Alternatives to Finite Volumes”

On November 12th and 13th 2018 the NAFEMS seminar “New methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)” took place in Wiesbaden, Germany. The seminar was organized by the NAFEMS CFD Advisory Board for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the goal of presenting a brief overview of alternative methods in CFD besides the well-known Finite-Volume based method. Nearly 60 attendees had the chance to benefit from four keynote and twelve presentations. The presentations covered Lattice-Boltzmann Methods (LBM) and mesh-free methods such as Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and Finite Point Methods (FPM). The seminar was rounded off with presentations on unconventional Finite-Element/Volume techniques and applications differing from main-stream CFD approaches.