OpenFoam (was Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...))

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> >   Someone explain to me again exactly how these bridges run Linux?  :-P
> 
> Perhaps there were computational fluid dynamics models of the bridges that 
> were run on Linux? ;)
> 

And there is a very nice CFD package called "OpenFoam" that runs on
Linux and is GPLed.  It has come highly recommended to me by a man who
wanted to know why his plastic duck floated around in his backyard pool
the way it did, yet he did not want to spend zillions of dollars for a
commercial CFD package.

So we brought the discussion back to Linux.

md
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