Welcome @dborowsk! The is the perfect place (SimScale) to improve your skill and refresh your CFD/FEA knowledge. Enjoy!
Take care,
Retsam
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hello, my name is eglan
and i am having a bit of trouble with running a simulation that i have due for my university assignment tomorrow and i am running in to a ‘Velocity field started diverging’ error…
and i need some help
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Welcome Eglan!
Feel free to create a ‘Project Support’ forum post for your issue, and make sure to add the link to your case too 
Cheers!
Fillia
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Sup- Vir’ here (Full name- Balvir Singh)
I came here to model aerodynamics and stress simulations to help a school out with CADing toys/functional robots and 3D printing them. Living in California, things are VERY expensive, so I like to keep costs down to the minimum, not paying for extras, and spending time wisely. I usually don’t have time to spend on making models, but can do simulations normally. I believe that the forum can help me on tasks that seem difficult, if not impossible to me if I am stuck on an operation. I would like to find out the methods of the true CAD and CFD guru(s) so that I can teach others and make Simscale a prosperous, free, open browser platform that is very easy, and loaded with all kinds of various tutorials covering lots of branches of CFD. I would be honored to be with you all helping me through this exciting and adventurous journey to be a CFD expert.
Your CFD dude, Balvir. (idk call me whatever u want)
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Well, @balvir_manj or Balvir: your are the man we wait for! 
We are not all gurus here, but we are eager to learn and share our knowledge, if opportunity arise. I hope we could also benefit from your experience!
Enjoy,
Retsam
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Hi, Noah here from California. I worked for many years in CAD and cloud solutions product management, and am now working with a startup in the AEC space that might make use of wind analysis for highrises. Your cloud-based CFD modeling for AEC looks fantastic! But I have a really basic question…
Just from googling around for wind analysis in urban/AEC applications, I see a lot of virtual CFD approaches but also physical modeling and wind tunnels. I know in the Bay Area many urban structures are still analyzed using wind tunnels. This seems hugely wasteful to me if CFD analysis can do the same thing. So are there things an architect or urban planner can do in a wind tunnel that you just can’t (practically) do with solution like Simscale?
Really appreciate a little education here!
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Hello
I am Antoine from Switzerland. my background is electrical engineering and I am a hobby pilot and aircraft builder. I have no previous experience of CFD but need it! I learn quick but this is no small feat.
I use Adobe Fusion 360 as a 3D modeling package.
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My name is Gerardo Alejandro Soto Guichapani, a Senior year student of Engineering. I like fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, and computational modeling. I am currently working in SimScale for all the facilities offered by the platform, I am trying to model an open channel with background roughness and compare it with an experimental study that has already been done in our University.
I deeply appreciate the opportunity to learn from this community and will do my best to contribute to its development.
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Hey Johan,
I would like to know what progress you made in simulating the siphoning process of pythagorean cup.
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Hi Ankit, thank you for the recommendation, and welcome to our forum!
Best regards,
Fillia
Hi, my name is Frank Lucci, and I am going into 8th gradeand in the usa. Right now I am using simscale to answer some of my fun theoretical questions and most importantly my science fair project. I am creating a package delivering flying wing that has a delivery radius of 50 - 100 miles(differing on which direction and what the wind speed is, also other factors like air density and kinematic viscosity). Right now I’m finalizing it and going to build a half-scale version of it that can drop a mini package. Simscale has allowed me to have a good estimate on how stable, efficient, etc my aircraft is. With my laptop, I would probably be able to simulate a 100k cell mesh and no more(which still gives you a very rough estimate). But now I can simulate over 8 million cells, which can give me accuracy when finalizing my design. My favorite colors are red, white, and orange. When I’m older I want to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering and have my own aerospace company.
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Hi Frank!
Thank you for your great contributions, and I can’t wait to check the final project! You are also doing the CAD design by yourself, right?
Best regards,
Fillia
yes, I am doing the cad design, aircraft design, and basically everything else by myself with a little help from the mentor to CNC some of the parts for me. I hope to find others who share the same interest as me though so I can assemble a team to do even bigger projects.
Frank Lucci
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Hi,
am Ankit Tiwari
i am student at YMCA, but i love to read books, like history or poitery if you like books,
u should read history books also, a book called Discovery of India is one of my favourite
book once u should read in life. 
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My name is Cartlon flores. I have a M.Sc.Mech.Eng. and a very very distant past in CFD work, as I used StarCD in 1996-1999.. .
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Welcome Carlton, I hope you will enjoy the community Feel free to contribute by sharing your knowledge, projects, etc!
Best regards,
Fillia
Hi from Ted Burke,
Having recently retired early as a Civil engineer to pursue my interests I’ve found the wonderful world of Simscale. It is amazing what you can do in Simscale considering that I arrived at university in the days of floppy disks and 16MHz 386 machines with turbo buttons 
Fortran 77 & DOS was my introduction to computers. We could do some basic FEA structural modelling and there was one colour printer available at the university.
I’m looking forward to exploring more of Simscale.
Regards
Ted Burke
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Hi Simscale Et al,
Always interested in flying growing up, in the age of comic books, moon landings and not forgetting Astro boy, who could fly. Now still wanting to fly, just waiting for those batteries to get higher energy density. So, just looking into aerodynamics and large ducted fans and just scraping the surface of Simscale capability.
So before heading out to the shed to build anything I think I’d better do a few simulations and modelling to optimise propeller and duct shapes, then start the build. Following the build the next thing I’ll need is… to find test pilot/s which I just spotted. Each weigh about 8.9kg each a tad lighter than me and while the wife is away, I’m sure both dogs would happily volunteer, for a food reward, but I think I’d better use the remote control, as the Pugs are always asleep.
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hello my name is Ntezirizaza Innocent I’m from a country of thousand hills(RWANDA), humbly it’s a highly pleasure to join in this huge community ,I’m student at University of Rwanda, in faculty of( Atmosphere and climate science)in level2,therefore I’m ready to work with you by sharing a good idea for improving our community and a shaping good future through SIMSCALE this will happen when we progressively working together ,I’m sovereign(independent) researcher. thank you all
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Greetings everyone. My name is Michael and I’m a retired software developer, but a complete newbie to SimScale. I’d like to build a heat diverter shield for my covered patio to protect the cover from the heat of a propane grill. I’d like to learn how to simulate the hot air convection flow from a fixed-temperature source (the grill) to help me determine some dimensions for the diverter. Could anyone point me to the best tutorial to start with? Thank you!