The established approach would have been to change the design by either adding copper and steel or changing the ventilation method, build a new prototype and evaluate the temperature reduction achieved. This process required approximately ten iterations, each taking close to a month, in order to obtain an acceptable design. Because of the slow pace and high cost of this approach, Emerson decided to use CFD instead. Emerson engineers chose CFX-TASCflow from AEA Technology to create a virtual prototype based on the original design.

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We need this test data (ideally in some simple ASCII format) for academic research on connectivity compression for unstructured volume meshes. Thanks"

The cornerstone feature of Gridgen Version 14 is Glyph, a new Tcl-based scripting language. Using Glyph, engineers can create customized meshing applications and utilities that significantly reduce the effort required to perform a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. "Glyph helps both expert and novice analysts", said John Chawner, Pointwise's president. "The novice analyst can use a customized, Glyph-scripted application that hides all the meshing details while the expert analyst can use Glyph to customize Gridgen for his or her way of working. In both cases Glyph allows the analyst to concentrate on the product, not the mesh."

Gridgen Version 14 also features Native CAD Import, import of CAD models in triangular (STL) format, automatic joining and decimation of surface meshes, baffle faces, a mirror transform, several new grid diagnostic functions, integration of the grid examine command with the elliptic solver, and export filters for CFD++, CRUNCH, and NCC.

Geometry:

• undo
• curve projection to surface
• geometry clean-up/repair improvements
• faceted surface between two curves

Meshing:

• Tetra - better leak repair tools
• Tetra - speed improvements
• Tetra - prism improvements
• Tetra - multi-processor support
• HEXA - edge smoothing
• HEXA - undo in replay mode
• HEXA - move vertex normal to surface
• AutoHexa - improved GUI
• AutoHexa - tree structure to save/create data
• CART3D - cartesian mesher for aerospace geometries
• Edit Mesh - special bar element configuration
• Edit Mesh - extrusion along curve
• Edit Mesh - better mesh repair control
• Output - new interfaces for Attila, LL-Dyna3D, LS-Dyna3D, Trio-U, SpecElem, MAZe, TSAR, N3S-Natur, CSP, FEAST, SAUNA, VRML2
• Direct CAD - converts GEMS, Capri, IDI, I-DEAS, ProE, Cadds, Acis, DWG and Tecplot mesh files to tetin format

Visualization:

• more options in streams manager
• multiple simulaneous views

For more information, visit What's New with ICEM CFD Engineering.

The only fluid dynamics program that is fully embedded within the SolidWorks user environment, COSMOS/FloWorks provides design engineers with a fundamental analysis of the flow of gases and liquids, heat transfer, and other forces on immersed or surrounding solids. The same qualities that make SolidWorks the industry's leading mid-range CAD system for the design of engines, valves, hydraulics, piping, pumps, HVAC, and other complicated assemblies make COSMOS/FloWorks the perfect tool for analyzing them.

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