Flow5 released to open source

Context from the homepage (https://flow5.tech):

An analysis tool for planes and sails operating at low Reynolds numbers

flow5 is a potential flow solver with built-in pre- and post processing functionalities. Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly.

	▲	LASR 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		With so many things being called Flow these days, this one is probably the most fitting.

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euroderf 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Make it work for paper airplanes and you have a nice teaching tool.

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notpushkin 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Source code: https://github.com/techwinder/flow5

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serf 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads.

music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.

	▲	tgv 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Certain types of (numerical) problems are very parallel in nature. LLMs, for example. But obviously not every problem is. And sometimes a parallel solution isn't the most efficient.

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samuell 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious that this hit the front page.

What kind of projects is this software used for?

	▲	taneq 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly. From the main project page. So it’s for designing aircraft, mostly.