During its development a major focus was put particularly on user-friendliness, enabling the design engineer to carry out complex calculation tasks with a few operations. The basis for this is the integrated CFD Workflow Manager which guides the user through the CFD workflow, hence considerably reducing training and project turnaround times. Although also available on UNIX platforms, the look and feel of the graphical user interface resembles the quasi standard set up by Microsoft’s Office applications, making it extremely easy to use.

The combination of FIRE with the BOOST one-dimensional gas-dynamic simulation tool and HYDSIM for the one-dimensional calculation of injection system components represents a software package capable of providing a comprehensive solution for engine thermodynamics, flow, mixture formation, combustion and aftertreatment system related analysis and optimisation tasks.

es-tools workshop: es-aero for external aerodynamics and es-uhood for underhood flow and thermal simulation

5th November 2002, Nuremberg, Germany
6th November 2002, Paris, France
7th November 2002, London, UK
8th November 2002, Milan, Italy (es-aero only)

This workshop is aimed at providing both experienced CFD engineers and newcomers alike with a better understanding of how CFD simulations in combination with our knowledge based expert systems, es-aero and es-uhood, is playing an ever increasing role in the design and development of vehicle external aerodynamics and vehicle underhood flow and thermal management.

During the workshop you will see how using our products es-aero and es-uhood, can help you reduce development costs and shorten your vehicle simulation time. es-aero provides a knowledge-based solution for a no compromise fast and accurate simulation of flow around complex 3-D vehicles, while es-uhood facilitates rapid simulation of flow and thermal processes inside the complex engine compartment. Both products are designed to conveniently handle the following activities: Preparation and cleaning of CAD surfaces and geometry - generation of appropriate CFD grids - an effective choice of boundary conditions and physical models - control of the CFD solution - post processing of results.

You will also have an opportunity to hear the experience of SAAB using these tools and discuss your concerns and requirements with some of our most experienced engineers.

For further details, please visit our website.

These web events include:

CFX has been trusted by the marine industry worldwide to provide the CFD software and knowledge required to optimize design to decrease noise, stress & vibration, lower energy needs, increase safety and meet regulatory requirements. Examples as well as a live demonstration of CFX software showing superior parallelization, advanced turbulence models, accurate multiphase and free surface models and efficient mesh generation and grid attachment abilities will be presented.

CFX-5 is the best-in-class Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software from CFX. CFX-5 greatly assists our customers in improving their profits by rapidly optimizing every aspect of fluid flow analysis within their overall product design and manufacturing processes.

For those unfamiliar with CFX-5, this web seminar contains a step by step demonstration of CFX-5 from geometry creation and import, through meshing, to solution and post-processing. Features of CFX-5 to be demonstrated include grid adaption, parallelization set-up and CFX Expression Language.

MultiElement Airfoils is intended for use as a conceptual design/analysis tool for the professional engineering and educational communities. The software can be used to rapidly create 2-D models and generate insight into many relevant engineering problems. For example, high lift wing configurations, race car spoilers in ground effect, biplane wings, double keel/rudder configurations, hydrofoils in shallow water, sail interactions and many other problems can be easily modeled with this tool.

Are you an engineer, scientist or manager within the process equipment design industry who would like to gain a better understanding of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and/or learn how it can be used to benefit your process unit operations? Are you curious about how CFD can be applied to your industry to gain better, faster results?

Fluent Inc. is pleased to offer two, back-to-back, one-day seminars featuring a review of CFD, and an overview of the application of CFD in the process equipment design industries. The purpose of these seminars is to teach engineers, scientists, and managers about the latest technical developments in CFD and how this technology can be used to model and improve process unit operations.

In today’s process equipment design field, the flow in equipment, such as chemical reactors, stirred tanks, fluidized beds, cyclones, spray dryers, heat exchangers, is analyzed using CFD. In many cases, the CFD analysis results in improved performance, better reliability, more confident scale-up, improved product consistency, and increased plant productivity.

Visit http://fluent.com/direct/ped_seminar/ for course descriptions, dates, location, course fee information, and to register online. You may choose to attend one or both of these seminars, depending on your background or needs.

Registration is also possible by contacting Fluent’s Training Coordinator, Kelly Carter, at 603-643-2600 or mailto:klc@fluent.com