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CFD is a vital technology for simulation, visualization, and prediction of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a critical part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) lifecycle for manufacturing companies around the world. Fluent's CFD simulations are delivering major business benefits by enabling engineers to design for better equipment performance, more effective scale-up, improved safety, and higher productivity.

TGS Open Inventor is a 3D scene graph API widely used for developing demanding 3D graphics applications. amira, built on top of Open Inventor, is TGS’s flagship visualization application, focusing on interactive analysis, processing, and viewing of three-dimensional scientific data such as 3D imagery (i.e. CT, MRI, PET, 3D ultrasound, 3D microscopy), CAD and polygon models, and vector data (e.g. for flow visualization).

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.