ChazInMT — I applaude your summarization. Even though my spell-checker rejects both those words.
aerohead — It's like the Cavalry coming over the hill.
aeroguy — Compare aerohead's description of legacy CFD against
OpenVDB. It's currently being rolled into Blender. Blender's animation engine will enable open source Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Don't be too smug, you missed 1956 and the birth of rock and roll.