ABSTRACT
Over the last 30 years, three key factors have accelerated the industrial use of CFD. The first is the emergence of multiple commercial CFD codes, which initially grew from the needs of specific industries (turbomachinery, chemical, automobile, etc.) and eventually became general purpose for their usage in other industries. Second, the continuous reduction in design cost and cycle time drove industries to adopt CFD technology in their design practices, more to reduce their testing budget. Third, seeing the emerging industrial trend for CFD technology, experimentalists and CFD technologists at universities started working as a team in their research activities, which further accelerated the growth in each area with significant benefits to industrial design and development.
