Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amd!dual!ames!eugene From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: ba.general,net.arch Subject: What "CFD" means Message-ID: <475@ames.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 13:21:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.475 Posted: Tue Aug 14 13:21:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 06:45:03 EDT Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 10 Re: Earlier posting of NASA Ames Seminar If you read the body of the abstract, you would find that CFD stands for: computational fluid dynamics. It is a application which is one of the driving forces for super computers and "fifth generation" computers. It is computationally intensive [in many cases worse than O(n sup 3)]. --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr..