You Should Get This Release:

• If you are using Parallel FIELDVIEW or Client-server mode, the enhancements will greatly benefit you. And, FV7.1 adds new clients for HP and SUN to the FIELDVIEW 7 offering of SGI-64 and Windows;
• If you need to run FIELDVIEW on Intel hardware with the Red Hat LINUX O/S;
• If you are using STAR-CD, FLUENT, CFX-5, SCRYU (in Japan) or any solver that uses FV-UNS files as output, you need this release because of a bug fix in handling face-based results;
• If you are using unstructured grids and need a way to review grid/cell topology, Crinkle Surfaces in FV7.1 will be of great benefit;
• If you need to use CGNS files with FIELDVIEW.

This will be used by Honeywell to enhance the design of turbochargers, typically for marine, mining, construction, military, aviation and power generation applications, enabling Honeywell's engineers to produce a wide range of design options within reduced time-scales, thus reducing total design and prototype cost.

CFX-BladeGen incorporates the extensive turbo-machinery design and analysis expertise of AEA Technology into a user-friendly graphical environment. The product is a three-dimensional software tool that allows rapid design of rotating machinery bladed components that are typically used for pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, turbines, expanders, turbochargers and inducers.

Fluent's Automotive Headquarters will host several "CFD in the Automotive Industry" seminars.

Fluent Europe will host a seminar on CFD in the Power Industry.

Also, in conjunction with the Air & Waste Management Association Annual Conference, Fluent will hold a seminar on Environmental Flow Problems.

July 5, 2001
Schoss Rahe
Aachen, Germany

“We will have gone from an idea to competitive race cars in 500 days. Without these new tools, we couldn’t have done it.”

...CFD program can also help the teams by creating situations that aren’t possible at the track or in a wind tunnel. Simulating a rolling-road situation, for example, allows engineers to predict how two or Using supercomputers at DaimlerChrysler headquarters, engineers check aerodynamic properties (top) as well as various under-the-skin elements of the car. more cars of similar (two Dodges) and different shapes (they also have the computer files on Pontiac, Chevrolet and Ford) would behave in a drafting situation and how cars would behave when racing close to a wall. They also can predict the behavior of a Dodge with its front end blocked off with tape (for qualifying), partially blocked (cool days) or open (hot days).

A completed Hyprotech sale would leave CFX as the sole business of AEA Technology Engineering Software because the profitable n-Code business was moved over to AEA Technology Rail last year.

...the Board considers that the disposal of Hyprotech offers more value than continuing to pursue strategic partnerships. Exclusive discussions regarding the disposal of the Hyprotech business are proceeding with the aim of agreeing terms in this half of the group's financial year.

The performance of the CFX business is improving and the Board expects to sell this business during the course of 2002.