Attendance at Fluent's annual Users' Group Meetings gives our users a chance to interact with the top echelon of CFD users in the world. Come to this year's annual UGM and learn how others in industry are applying CFD, meet with our technical staff, and provide your input to the future development of the software you are using.

This year's meeting will include pre-meeting training seminars, as well as product reports, a comprehensive lecture series on specific applications, and the ever-popular user presentations. The CFD pavilion returns, featuring exhibits by our hardware and software partners, posters by Fluent engineers, and product information. Also, an exciting new session will highlight our new web-based solutions program.

Visit http://www.fluent.com to register and/or learn more about this year's meeting.

The student edition is a response to several requests for an educational version of the WingAnalysis Plus Package. Like the Lite Version of VisualFoil ($69.00), the Student Version of WingAnalysis Plus is offered at a substantial discount over the Full Version with an introductory price of $95.00 US. This price will be available until March 15, 2002. After this date, the price will be increased to $129.00 US.

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Papers are due 01 May 2002 for this year's conference, to be held 15-18 September 2002 in Ithaca, New York, USA on the campus of Cornell University.

SolidWorks is well established as the market leader in desktop solid modelling offering unmatched performance, value, leadership in innovation and the largest community of users. No other CAD system allows you to get product design work done as quickly and accurately. STAR-CD is recognised for its powers and capabilities as a multipurpose industrial CFD code, arguably it is the technology leader for CFD. The code offers unrivalled ability to handle complex geometries, a wide range of physical models, and fast, accurate solver technology.

At a recent FLUENT Users' Group Meeting, Dr. David Kohlman presented a short course on aircraft icing. The course covered the environmental conditions responsible for icing and a number of deicing and anti-icing systems in use.

Traditionally, aircraft icing was studied by performing experiments in an icing wind tunnel or by flying an aircraft in the wake of a tanker aircraft spraying water droplets. These methods are expensive and time consuming which lead researchers to computational modeling.