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2006

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.

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2005

Supercomputing SC|05,  Seattle, WA, Nov 2005
Best technical paper award "2005 News and Highlights"
SC|05 Press release

Cart3D v1.3.5 relesed,  Aug 2004
Improved limiters in flowCart, user-specified ratio of specific heats.

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2004

Aerodynamic Performance Databases, Oct 2004

See the complete article

Cart3D v1.3 relesed, Jun 2004

reorder within "cubes", inlet/exit BCs, faster codes and more.

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2003

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
see esp. Chap 3 and Fig 3.4-6 Debris trajectory showing strike on RCC 8.

Gridpoints Magazine,
winter 2003 issue

Aviation Week & Space Technology
2003 Aerospace Source Book, p. 426. Jan 2003

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2002

Ames Astrogram News Article, 
September 2002

Cart3D 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 2002-0863

Release of cart3d.v1.1, Jan. 2002

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2001

NAS News Article (Weekly)
News item 12/07/2001

Release of cart3d.v1.0b, Oct. 2001

NASA Ames CTO awards exclusive and non-exclusive licenses for Cart3D

Release of cart3d.v1.0a, Feb. 2001

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2000

 
Gridpoints Magazine (Quarterly)
Feature Story, Summer 2000, Vol.1, No.3

Release of cart3d.v1.0, Aug. 2000

A New Generation of Grids
NAS Front page feature story. June 2000

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1999

Release of cart3d.beta.21.09.99, Sep., 1999

 Robust and Efficient Generation of Cartesian Meshes for CFD
ARC Commercial Technology Office, Technical Oppurtunities, Aug 1999

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1998

Release of cart3d.beta.09.09.98

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1995

A Rapid-Deployment Force For CFD: Cartesian Grids
SIAM News, Vol. 28, No. 10, December 1995

Cartesian Mesh Simulations for Complex Geometry
1995 NAS Technical Summary

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last update Jan 2006,  M. Aftosmis