Study of supersonic flows is of high interest for a wide variety of problems including design of high speed planes and other related applications [1]. This user tip presents a validation of numerical methods against experimental data.

In CFD-GEOM V2007, certain entities can now be set to transparent.  This option allows you to add transparency effects to your surfaces, faces, and volumes.  This can be an excellent way to add shadows/colors and glass effects to the model. 

Sources are used in CFD-VisCART to refine the grid in localized regions of the domain. One of the many types of sources available is the Box Source where the user specifies a cuboidal box around the region a finer grid is required. In the earlier versions, the user would have to add a Box Source and then specify its X, Y and Z extents to position the box in the desired location.

When doing restarts, which is a continuation of a previous solution, there are a couple of options available in the CFD-ACE-GUI regarding where the data comes from, along with output and time options. This user tip will detail the various options available to the user.