[SIGCIS-Members] Historical Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software

[Alexandre Hocquet]

On 9/22/20 8:09 AM, Ulf Hashagen wrote:
> I became interested in the history of "Computational Fluid Dynamics 
> (CFD) Software" last week, but could not find much historical source 
> material on this topic so far. May I ask for your advice and comments?

dear Ulf,

If you're into CFD *software* , this paper by Matthew Spencer :

Spencer, Matthew. 2015. “Brittleness and Bureaucracy : Software as a 
Material for Science.” Perspectives on Science 23 (4): 466–84.

narrates the history of [this piece of software] 
(http://www.swmath.org/software/24822) and has a pioneering take on the 
influence of software on scientific activity. It was an inspiration for 
our (Frédéric Wieber and I) own work on computational chemistry software 
as historians of science.

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Alexandre Hocquet
Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute
Alexandre.Hocquet at univ-lorraine.fr
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https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
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