Ansys Blog Authors

Bill Kulp

Retired Lead Product Marketing Manager, Fluids

Prior to his retirement in 2020, Bill had an extensive career in product marketing for engineering and technology companies like GE, McKesson, and Phillips. Bill joined Ansys in 2015 as a Lead Product Marketing Manager for the Fluids product line. In that role he managed marketing activities such as webinars, white papers and blog posts for Ansys CFD solutions. Since his retirement in 2020, he has been hiking the Appalachan Trail and enjoying time with his family.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University
Master of Business Administration in Marketing & Strategy from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Profssional Credentials: Pragmatic Marketing

Time at Ansys: July 2015 - April 2020

Articles by This Author

A solar panel in a single-axis solar tracking configuration.

Engineers Use Simulation to Ensure Solar Panels Survive Wind Storms

Solving the mystery of why solar trackers oscillate at high wind while in a stowed position.

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Pump cavitation can harm internal mechanisms.

What Causes Pump Cavitation and How to Prevent It

Cavitation happens when bubbles, or voids, form within a fluid because the pressure quickly drops below the vapor pressure.

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Comparison between turbulence models: two iterations of GEKO (top, left and right), the standard k-ε (bottom, left) and sheer stress transport (SST) (bottom, right).

How to Define Your Own Turbulent Flow Equation for CFD Modeling

Generalized k-omega (GEKO) offers custom CFD modeling to fit your particular turbulent flow.

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Baseline pressure (left) compared to improved pressure (right) after the Ansys Fluent adjoint solver optimized the geometry of the hood to reduce the drag coefficient.

Aerodynamic Car Body Shape Optimizations & Design

Explore how aerodynamic car body shape optimization helps engineers find unexpected ways to improve the aerodynamics of car body designs.

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A Mosaic mesh that connects hexahedral elements in the bulk to isotropic elements in the boundary using polyhedral elements

How to Build a Computational Fluid Dynamics Mesh for Fast and Accurate Simulations

Learn how Ansys’ Mosaic technology can help engineers connect disparate meshes in their CFD simulations.

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A straw that is filled with air and water

You Don't Have to Be a Software Expert to Model Multiphase Flow

You don't have to be a software maven to easily simulate multiphase flows common to various industries using Ansys Fluent.

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Bottle of wine being poured into a glass

Can You Aerate Wine by Pouring it From the Bottle?

Watch this simulation of the aeration of pouring a bottle of wine into a glass using the algebraic interfacial area density (AIAD) model in Ansys Fluent.

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Computer with a black box in fornt of it and input and output arrows

What is a Reduced Order Model and What’s Its Product Development Role?

Reduced order models simplify complex models so they can be easily and quickly studied by engineers and product developers.

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