{"id":5413,"date":"2016-12-21T04:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/robinbornoff\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:59:33","slug":"talking-cfd-podcast-democratization-appification-and-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/2016\/12\/21\/talking-cfd-podcast-democratization-appification-and-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking CFD Podcast &#8211; Democratization, Appification and Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure recently to talk with Robin Knowles as part of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfdengine.com\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking CFD podcast<\/a> series. All credit to Robin for taking the initiative, time and effort in discussing various aspects of the CFD industry with such a diverse range of people. Despite the terms &#8216;democratization&#8217; and &#8216;appification&#8217; being de rigueur of late, they have underpinned our strategy in providing CFD to a wide range of engineers over the last 28 years. We discussed these issues in the context of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/mechanical\/floefd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FloEFD<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/mechanical\/flotherm\/flotherm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FloTHERM<\/a> products, the strategy behind them and some ideas as to how CFD might change in the future:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/talkingcfd\/ep18-robin-bornoff-mentor-graphics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/talkingcfd\/ep18-robin-bornoff-mentor-graphics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21st December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure recently to talk with Robin Knowles as part of his Talking CFD podcast series. All credit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,75,80],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cfd","tag-floefd","tag-flotherm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simulating-the-real-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}