Chapter 930 Challenge From COMSOL

Although he said he wanted to chat with Zheng Liangqun, he had been transferred out of the capital after commanding the 50th National Day military parade the year before last and went to work at the Jiangcheng Command Post of the Air Force.

At this juncture, it was impossible for Chang Haonan to fly thousands of kilometers to find someone just for some personal matter.

Besides, Chang Jiayao and Zheng Hui are not 23 yet, so there is still time.

Therefore, Chang Haonan is still preparing to return to his own job first——

He has not forgotten the expectations that brother units had for Torch Group at the aerospace theme meeting on September 11th.

In any case, the TORCH Multiphysics software must undergo a large-scale update.

However, what Chang Haonan didn't expect was that in the more than three weeks since he focused his attention on the attack, the Torch Group had already ushered in a strong competitor.

…

October 8th, the first working day after the National Day holiday.

Song Jingming, Office Director of Torch Group, and Wei Yongming, Head of the Technical Department, came to the Aviation Power Group with a report——

Now that the Torch Group has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aerospace Power Group, Chang Haonan saves the trouble of running around every day and can handle most specific matters at the group headquarters.

"Mr. Chang."

There was a knock on the door, causing Chang Haonan to look away from the computer screen and look at the office door.

"Old Song...and Old Wei?"

Chang Haonan looked happy, and at the same time stretched out his hand to signal the two of them to sit down on the sofa:

"You two arrived just in time. I'm planning to contact you in two days."

As he spoke, he turned his office chair and faced the two people who were looking hesitant and said:

"Some time ago, I discussed with several core users. The plan is to release version 2.0 of TORCH Multiphysics from the end of this year to the beginning of next year. The main updates of the new version are, first, the introduction of a new method based on DNS simulation and RANS simulation. Turbulence model, the second is to introduce the level set method for multi-phase interface simulation and topology optimization problems.”

"Especially the latter, it can be said to be the top priority of this upgrade. I have already pushed the theoretical part of the conservation level set method to you before. I wonder how it is currently being advanced at the application level?"

Naturally, there was no chance for Song Jingming to speak up about this purely technical issue.

So Wei Yongming immediately took over the conversation:

"Mr. Chang, based on the algorithm theory you gave us, we have implemented numerical simulations on the second-level time scale for common multi-phase processes such as combustion, atomization and evaporation in the internal test version."

"As for the topology optimization issue, this is still being tackled, but the progress is pretty good. If the time node for the new version is the end of this year... it may be a bit nervous, but there should be no problem before the Spring Festival next year."

Wei Yongming was born in Qinghua University, and was initially responsible for developing embedded operating systems for Torch-C.B. Ferrari.

However, he soon showed his talent in other development fields and was transferred to the head office to take charge of the daily work of the entire technical department, which relieved a lot of Chang Haonan's pressure.

"Before the Spring Festival..."

Chang Haonan was naturally quite satisfied when he heard the other party's answer, but he still lowered his head and pondered for a moment:

"Old Wei, we should try not to make our comrades work overtime during the Spring Festival holiday. If the progress is really fast, then we can accept that the new version will be launched before the second quarter of next year."

Whether it is Torch Group or the entire Aerospace Power Group, due to the special nature of the work, continuous overtime work is objectively unavoidable.

But after all, Chang Haonan had worked as a screw for decades in his previous life, so he could still think about it from the perspective of a worker.

You know, in the field of numerical calculation software, Torch Group has achieved a global lead in a literal sense——

I worked overtime when I was lagging behind before, but now I am ahead. If I still work overtime, wouldn’t my lead be in vain?

Therefore, in industries related to computer algorithms, although Torch Group does not have the best remuneration, it has always been relatively individual in terms of work intensity.

Wei Yongming, who is directly in charge of the technical department, agrees with Chang Haonan's philosophy in this regard.

But this time, he did not nod immediately, but hesitated for a moment, looked at Song Jingming next to him, and then said solemnly:

"Mr. Chang, there is a situation now. You are not in the company during this period, so you may not know about it yet."

"oh?"

Chang Haonan raised his eyebrows:

"Tell me more specifically?"

“Just last month, two days before the National Day holiday, the Swedish company COMSOL suddenly announced that they would launch the 2.5 version update of COMSOL MUltiphysics in late October.”

Wei Yongming stood up and put the report he had just held in front of Chang Haonan:

"The specific situation is written in this report for you to read."

Chang Haonan immediately sat up straight and opened the folder on the desktop.

In fact, the reason why he named his numerical calculation software TORCH Multiphysics was inspired by the Swedish company's products.

Of course it was inspired by the previous life.

But due to a strange combination of circumstances, in this timeline, the opponent became the challenger chasing after him.

It’s just that in the past few years, many friendly companies, including COMSOL and ANSYS, have not been able to really shake the dominant position of Torch Group.

The content of the report is not complicated to summarize. The Swedes invited a very capable American professor to refer to the unstructured grid generation algorithm proposed by Chang Haonan a few years ago and developed a set of Lagrangian methods that can be applied to drastic changes in interfaces.

Since this method does not involve high-precision formats, but takes the route of traditional finite volume methods, it is very universal. The most important thing is that when the quality of grid generation is poor, a certain accuracy can still be guaranteed.

"Hiss..."

Looking at the content in front of him, Chang Haonan frowned in confusion.

If the other party can really do this without using high-precision formats, it will indeed have a considerable impact on TORCH Multiphysics, or even the 2.0 version of TORCH Multiphysics.

You know, the grid generation method specially developed by Torch Group is said to be efficient, but it is more efficient than others when the quality of grid generation is the same.

In general, it still takes a long time to do this step.

In most cases, users cannot find the optimal solution in a cycle of grid generation-simulation calculation.

Therefore, if we can achieve 80% or even 70% of the effect with low-quality mesh, it will be very attractive.

The only question is...

Is it really possible?

"Old Wei."

Chang Haonan closed the report and looked up at Wei Yongming:

"Is there any more specific technology... uh... the technology is unlikely to be made public, so a more specific theoretical derivation process will be fine?"

"The person who developed this method is Professor Anthony Jameson of Stanford University."

Wei Yongming replied:

"He has indeed published several papers related to the finite volume method recently. If you need it, I can send it to you after I go back."

"No need..."

Chang Haonan came back to the computer:

"I can check it myself..."

He quickly entered A. Jameson in the search bar, and then selected Stanford University in the filter.

Soon, dozens of related papers popped up.

It was not until this time that Chang Haonan vaguely remembered the name.

"Oh my god...it was him?"

Anthony Jameson.

Before the 1990s, the big man who made the most theoretical contributions to the field of CFD.

It is no exaggeration to say that throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Professor Jameson's contribution to the promotion and application of CFD exceeded the sum of all other people in the world.

Although Professor Jameson's output slowed down a bit after the mid-1990s, Chang Haonan still felt a little pressured to be able to invite such a legendary figure.

He sorted the search results by time and quickly found the article mentioned by Wei Yongming.

A finite-volume method for the Lagrange-Euler equations...

Published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Compared with JCAS, where Chang Haonan's paper was published, this JCP is definitely a top journal in the industry.

"If this is true, then the tradition of not working overtime during the Spring Festival may be broken..."

While thinking this, Chang Haonan opened the PDF document that had just been downloaded to the desktop...