Tackle the Full Simulation Lifecycle With CMB

Traditional wave tank experiments are essential for understanding hydrodynamics, but come with significant challenges. They require substantial investments in physical models, actuators, and instrumentation. Moreover, scaling effects introduce complexities, such as the dominance of viscous forces at smaller scales and the variability of material properties. Reproducing interactions between wind and waves accurately remains a persistent issue.

The 25.06 release of the Simulation Modeling Toolkit (SMTK) brings a wide range of improvements aimed at making simulation workflows easier to implement as well as being more intuitive and adaptable.  A More Intuitive API The methods you use to get and set unit systems have been renamed to better reflect common engineering language—so now […]

In the world of computational simulations, efficiency and flexibility are crucial. Kitware’s open source platform, Computation Model Builder (CMB), is designed to streamline every step of the simulation process, from setting up models to analyzing results. As an example, while OpenFOAM remains a powerful tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrating it with CMB elevates productivity by providing an intuitive, flexible workflow. With CMB, users can efficiently manage complex simulations, automate tasks, and make adjustments on the fly, all within a cohesive interface. This synergy allows engineers and researchers to focus more on innovation and less on the technical hurdles, ensuring that high-quality modeling doesn’t come at the cost of time or ease of use.

Simulation workflows are inherently complex, often involving a variety of computational tools that each play a crucial role in modeling, analyzing, and interpreting physical systems. From geometric kernel operations to mesh generation, numerical solvers, and post-processing analysis tools, these workflows require a high level of coordination and integration. Unfortunately, most simulation environments fall short of providing all the necessary tools in one cohesive package, and even those that do often lack the flexibility engineers need to incorporate specialized components. This lack of an adaptable, integrated environment has been a major stumbling block for advancing simulation technologies.

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Traditional wave tank experiments are essential for understanding hydrodynamics, but come with significant challenges. They require substantial investments in physical models, actuators, and instrumentation. Moreover, scaling effects introduce complexities, such as the dominance of viscous forces at smaller scales and the variability of material properties. Reproducing interactions between wind and waves accurately remains a persistent issue.

Each year, Supercomputing (SC) brings together the world’s leaders in high-performance computing to share groundbreaking advances in hardware, software, and scientific innovation. Kitware is proud to return as a long-time exhibitor, showcasing how interactive visual workflows are redefining what’s possible in HPC, AI, and large-scale simulation.

High-resolution simulations are producing massive datasets, but traditional post-processing pipelines struggle to keep up. Writing full timesteps to disk introduces significant I/O bottlenecks, and reducing output frequency compromises temporal fidelity and analysis resolution. Researchers need smarter, faster ways to analyze data while simulations are running.

Modern scientific and engineering applications increasingly rely on rich, interactive 3D visualization to interpret complex data. Traditional desktop deployments, however, create barriers, installation overhead, platform dependencies, and limited scalability. As workflows migrate to the web, there is a clear need for performant, browser-native solutions that can deliver the sophistication of desktop tools without their constraints.