Founded by chemical engineering mixing expert, Professor Richard V. Calabrese, the program is an outgrowth of a grant from The Proctor & Gamble University Exploratory Research Program. The goal of the High-Shear Mixing Research Program is to better understand the underlying fluid complexities in rotor-stator mixers and its affect on process performance for production of various foods, pharmaceuticals, and health and beauty products, as well as paints, inks dyes and other commodities.

amira 3.1 will offer its users greater functionality by increasing the standard set of features and by adding extensions including PC cluster support. This new release is now available for download from the TGS website, www.tgs.com.

amira supports a wide range of applications within the following fields such as numerical simulations (finite element analysis, power generation), computational fluid dynamics and hydrodynamics, crash analysis and simulation, material sciences and quality control, physics, electromagnetism, oil & gas exploration and geosciences, environmental and energy.

Using the one-of-a-kind Arbitrary Shape Deformation (ASD) technology developed by Optimal Solutions’ engineers, an ASD volume was designed to deform the defroster CFD grid to improve performance without having to remesh.

Aside from great food and drink, a presentation entitled “The next generation of CFD – STAR-CCM+” will be hosted by the lead developer of the code, who will discuss benefits of the new state-of-the-art technology including:

• A preconditioned coupled solver for all flow speeds
• A fully integrated interactive analysis environment
• Compatibility with all major mesh generation packages

All attendees of the party will also be entered into a free drawing for a next generation telescope.

If you would like to attend, or even if you are unable to attend, but would like to receive further information about STAR CCM+, please visit our website.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Here comes my question. How would I justisfy my approach of using different time step for the same type of analyses when I am dualing with real problems without known experimental data? Critics will shoot me on this "taking incosistent approach issue". So what should I reply them?"

The article also discusses the move toward combined CAD and CFD packages, a move which mirrors the development of FEA and allows for analysis during design.

"Historically, analysis has been relegated to the research and development departments, or the tail end of the design process," Vincent Harrand of CFD Research said. "Imagine the design engineer who, with minimal training or experience, can assess a series of geometrical variants or a series of unique approaches and determine within minutes fluid flow, heat transfer, thermal or structural stress, or any number of other physical phenomena."