The seminar, titled Advanced CFD for Aerospace Applications - Current Capabilities and Future Trends, is to be held on Tuesday 7th January 5:00pm in the Reno Hilton.

For more information, please come to the CD adapco Group booth (#110) in the Exhibition Hall, January 6th - 9th 2003.

Thank you to everyone who has visited and contributed to this site during the past year. With your help, 2003 will see continued growth in the CFD field.

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The subject is CFD Technology in Ship Hydrodynamics. CFD 2003 will follow a similar format to CFD 97 and CFD 99, the first two conferences in the series, which were successfully held in Ulsteinvik, Norway.

Within the broad theme, presentations will be divided into three main areas: CFD in relation to hull form, in relation to propellers and other propulsors, and to hull/propulsor interaction. Development of CFD software and the underlying mathematical models and techniques will be covered, as will comparisons between computational predictions, test tank results and full scale data.

In addition to the conference papers, there will be opportunities for delegates to discuss topics of mutual interest, a demonstration workshop for CFD software and a social programme.

This conference is being organised by The Royal Institution of Naval Architects on behalf of Riviera Maritime Media Ltd.

For further information, please contact: Mark Staunton-Lambert, Technical Director
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects
10 Upper Belgrave Street, London, SW1X 8BQ, England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7235 4622
Fax: +44 (0)20 7259 5912
E-mail: mlambert@rina.org.uk
Website: www.rivieramm.com/cfd

The 2002 season has also seen the Ferrari Formula 1 Race Team score a repeat double with their driver Michael Schumacher becoming World Champion for the fifth time - the third with the Scuderia - and the race team itself winning the coveted Constructors' Championship for the fourth time in a row by an unprecedented margin.

Recently the Ferrari team has enhanced its CFD capabilities by signing an enhanced 3-year agreement with Fluent Italia to maintain Fluent as its CFD Technical Partner of choice. Fluent's leading edge CFD software continues to meet the exacting demands of the Maranello based motor racing team in its quest for ongoing success and motor racing technical excellence.

"Airflow modeling is becoming an essential tool in building design," says Airpak Product Manager Dr. Walter Schwarz, "and our customers who have selected Airpak as their airflow modeling tool-of-choice have gained a competitive advantage over their competitors in design as well as enhanced their communication with customers concerning ventilation design performance."

Early in 1995, Monsanto implemented a CFD Initiative leading to a concerted application of the technology throughout the company. By standardizing on CFX-4, we simplified the learning process and made it trivial to share models across the organization. Since then, the CFD group has been closely monitored, checking cost against economic benefits for each case. Consequently, we have a large dataset of industrial CFD applications from which we can extract performance statistics on the benefits of CFD.

Economic impact

Since 1995, we have maintained approximately 1 full-time CFD practitioner per billion dollars of annual sales and the same ratio of CFD practitioners to enterprise employees (0.035%). Both the annual net income of about $4 million per user and the rate of return are continuing to increase.