During the initial stage of the investigation, researchers sought to determine the steady-state lift and drag coefficients for the hand and arm. The model for these simulations used k-epsilon turbulence modeling with non-equilibrium wall functions. Adaptive meshing was utilized to increase solution accuracy.

As defending champions, having won the America's Cup in 1995 and 2000, Team New Zealand hopes that CFX CFD software will enable them to achieve a third consecutive win - ensuring the team a place in the record books.

According to Dr.-Ing. Georg Scheuerer, CFX European Operations Director: “This Alliance will link both companies’ aspirations in turbomachinery design and analysis consultancy, turbomachinery design software and the development of advanced systems such as unsteady aero-mechanical software”.

• Extension of parallel processing to client operations
• Support for SMP parallel computing on all hardware platforms
• Server-of-server functionality has been extended
• User definable mathematical functions
• Visualization of N-sided polyhedra
• Mass particle force effects, such as, drag and gravity
• Stereo viewing support for all platforms

Opel utilizes a CAE database which allows the engineers to quickly extract components, such as the base chassis, external mirrors, and spoilers, and combine them into a CAD model. The pre-processing software ANSA is then used to produce a triangular surface mesh. Generation of the volume mesh is done using a variety of tools including Fluent's TGrid and GAMBIT mesh generators. Prism layers are utilized to provide good resolution of the viscous boundary layer and the remaining volume is filled with tetrahedra. Non-conformal interfaces are used to handle difficult geometry such as external mirrors, underbody, and side window steps.

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