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2009
Workshop II: Getting Started with Adjoint-Based Mesh Adaptation and Error Estimation in Cart3D. Hosted at NASA Ames, Feb, 2009. This is a kick-off workshop for phase II of the beta program for the Cart3D Adjoint-module.
Workshop I: Getting Started with Adjoint-Based Mesh Adaptation and Error Estimation in Cart3D Hosted at NASA Ames, Dec. 18. This was a government-only workshop for the phase I beta release of the Cart3D Adjoint-module.
Cart3D v 1.4 released, Dec 2008
Performance improvements, support for on-the-fly component-wise force extraction, point and line sensors, see the full announcement.
Beta Release of Cart3D Adjoint-module Dec 2008
Output functionals drive mesh adaptation to meet user-specified error bounds. See details of the beta program. Get started with background reading here.
Cart3D meets sonic-boom propagation milestones in under 2hrs on a desktop workstation. Read about it here and here.
Cart3D's importance to NASA's future discussed in "Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications", (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series) ed. D. Bader, Jan. 2008.
flowCart's hybrid parallel programming paradigm written-up and analyzed in the OpenMP textbook "Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming" by Chapman, Jost and van der Pas. Oct. 2007
Cart3D used for analysis of Orion Launch Abort Vehicle. See the technical paper on this work.
Cart3D used in producing Orion Aero database for Constellation by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
Launch of Cart3D-Discuss discussion forum. Users and observers invited to browse on-line newsgroup, Feb, 2006
Software for Automated Generation of Cartesian Grids
NASA Tech Briefs, Vol.30 No. 1, Jan. 2006
Cart3D Hits 2.5 TFLOP/s on 2016 CPUs of NASA's Columbia Supercomputer
Compare performance with that of several top NASA solvers, Jan 2006.
Supercomputing SC|05, Seattle, WA, Nov 2005
Best technical paper award "2005 News and Highlights"
SC|05 Press release
Cart3D v1.3.5 released, Aug 2004
Improved limiters in flowCart, user-specified ratio of specific heats.
Aerodynamic Performance Databases, Oct 2004
reorder within "cubes", inlet/exit BCs, faster codes and more.
Aviation Week & Space Technology
"Correspondence". Sept. 15, 2003
Contours
Plot of the month, Issue 21, 2003
Aviation Week & Space Technology
"NASA Recouping after Columbia Board's Criticism", p. 22. Sept. 1, 2003
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report - Volume 1
Gridpoints Magazine,
see esp. Chap 3 and Fig 3.4-6 Debris trajectory showing strike on RCC 8.
winter 2003 issueAviation Week & Space Technology
2003 Aerospace Source Book, p. 426. Jan 2003Ames Astrogram News Article,
September 2002Cart3D Named 2002 NASA Software of the Year
NASA Ames Press Release, 2 Aug. 2002
NASA HQ Press Release, 2 Aug. 2002
ANSYS Press Release
AIAA Best Paper Award
for AIAA Paper 2002-0863Release of cart3d.v1.1, Jan. 2002
NAS News Article (Weekly)
News item 12/07/2001Release of cart3d.v1.0b, Oct. 2001
NASA Ames CTO awards exclusive and non-exclusive licenses for Cart3D
Release of cart3d.v1.0a, Feb. 2001
Gridpoints Magazine (Quarterly)
Feature Story, Summer 2000, Vol.1, No.3Release of cart3d.v1.0, Aug. 2000
A New Generation of Grids
NAS Front page feature story. June 2000
Release of cart3d.beta.21.09.99, Sep., 1999Robust and Efficient Generation of Cartesian Meshes for CFD
ARC Commercial Technology Office, Technical Oppurtunities, Aug 1999
Release of cart3d.beta.09.09.98
A Rapid-Deployment Force For CFD: Cartesian Grids
SIAM News, Vol. 28, No. 10, December 1995Cartesian Mesh Simulations for Complex Geometry
1995 NAS Technical Summary
last update Jan 2006, M. Aftosmis