The Conference will include two days of presentations, a variety of demonstrations from hardware and software vendors as well as a User Forum. An informal reception will be held at the end of the first day where you are welcome to meet other users, chat with CD adapco Group employees and enjoy the food and drink prepared by the catering staff at the beautiful Atheneum. For users driving to Detroit a complementary valet parking service is available.

Presentations will be given by our clients from a variety of industries including automotive, power generation, combustion, aerospace and architectural engineering.

So, reserve May 6 and May 7 on your calendar and plan to be a part of the 2002 STAR-CD North American Users’ Conference!

For more information, please visit www.cd-adapco.com/company/ugmUS02.htm

Sandia researchers have been developing DAKOTA for about eight years. The initial work focused on optimization methods, but has since branched out into uncertainty quantification and other areas. It has been used internally at Sandia and externally by researchers at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories in conjunction with DOE’s Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program.

Dr. Peric notes that the increase in available computing power, along with ease-of-use technologies is causing the widespread adoption of CFD in the engineering field.

"Furthermore, CFD tools will become part of a global computer-aided engineering environment, interacting with other design tools to make optimization tasks faster, easier, and more reliable," Peric said.

The application stories feature the optimization of tangentially fired boilers and sand erosion in petroleum pipeline equipment.

This will be what all the fashionable desktop computers will be wearing this year. Now if I could only get one or two to try out...

by Frederic Aguile and Alain Quinqueneau, Gaz de France

How do we make our CFX models and results available to our project partners?

That was the critical question when we wrote our proposal for funding under the European Union Brite-Euram programme. In the subsequent project, called MECBURN, a consortium of a gas supplier, burner manufacturers and end users aim to develop a new generation of gas-fired industrial burners. Success depends on close collaboration between modellers and experimentalists to refine the design in the light of a detailed understanding of burner operation at different scales and thermal ratings. So good communication and easy accessibility of the models and their predictions are crucial if the benefits of CFD modelling are going to be realized.

In addition to hearing two keynote speakers, participants will have the opportunity to choose from four tracks: Crash; Multi-Physics (including structures and finite element); Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD); and Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH). You can find more details about this event, including registration information, at the HP site.