Since its publication in 2014, the CFD Vision 2030 Study has become a touchstone against which CFD organizations of all types have measured their tools and techniques and set aspirations for their practices and processes. The study's vision of CFD in the year 2030 is one in which a single engineer will be able to manage many simulations on complex geometries within a time-critical period to a specified degree of accuracy. The study's authors identified five classes of impediments that would have to be overcome in the years between 2014 and 2030 to achieve the vision. Geometry modeling and mesh generation were cited as major, contributing factors to two impediments: lack of CFD simulation autonomy and reliability and lack of effective utilization of high performance computing platforms. This paper assesses progress in geometry modeling and mesh generation in the five years since the study's publication and imagines how further progress in those areas can make meshing invisible to the CFD practitioner.
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