By accurately simulating the complicated reactive flow process in a hydrogen air bag inflator, TRW engineers gained useful design information that has already helped reduce cost and resolve design issues. Physical tests that are traditionally used to design air bag inflators show the performance of a particular design but provide almost no diagnostic information, making it difficult to make improvements. The challenge was accurately capturing both the stiff hydrogen-air reaction and the complex flow geometry without consuming inordinate computational resources. TRW engineers took advantage of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package that provides reliable solution algorithms and allows for substantial chemical reaction complexity. By creating the first accurate simulation of a hydrogen inflator, they were able to gain additional understanding of how the parts in the inflator influence combustion. This, in turn, has made it possible to fine-tune the critical combustion process according to the performance requirements of individual applications.

Thank you for supporting this site and best wishes for a successful 2004!

Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in high fidelity fluid dynamics modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has a growing worldwide network for FLOW-3D®, including representatives in Japan, Germany, Korea, Canada, Finland, Spain, Italy, Norway, Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Southeast Asia. Flow Science is located in Santa Fe, NM.

Fuchuang is a privately-held company with offices at No.15 KangLe Street, TaiYuan City, Shanxi Province. Fuchuang other business concentrates in the design of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, evaporators, condensers, drying facilities, valves and flows in pipes and channels, welding operations and tank mixing.

For more information, contact Ms. Rena Coby-Madrid of Flow Science at (505) 982-0088 or rena@flow3d.com or Dr. Fucheng Li of Fuchuang at 0351-4087276 or lfctyfuchuang@163.com.

Developed specifically to address the signal integrity issues in today’s high-speed Integrated Circuit (IC) package designs, Icemax provides substrate designers and electrical analysts with an easy-to-use and highly automated modeling environment, seamlessly integrated with CAD data from major EDA layout vendors. Icemax is powered by advanced geometry processing engines and Fluent’s flagship finite volume 3-D field solver, thereby facilitating quick and accurate parasitic extraction of complex (IC) package layouts.

Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in high fidelity fluid dynamics modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has a worldwide network of Associates for FLOW-3D®, including Japan, Germany, Korea, Finland, Norway, Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Italy, Canada and Southeast Asia. Flow Science is located in Santa Fe, NM.

Kaushiks International is a privately-held company based in Bangalore. Kaushiks International also represents casting equipment and other related products which includes Toshiba Machine Co Ltd. (Japan), Hildreth Mfg. LLC (Marion, Ohio), and Visi Trak Worldwide LLC (Cleveland, Ohio) in India.

For information, contact Ms. Rena Coby-Madrid at (505) 982-0088 or rena@flow3d.com or Mr. B.Ravindran at 0091-80-5283780 or kiblr@blr.vsnl.net.in.

Register before January 31 and receive a more than 20% discount off the standard fee.

For more information or to register, visit the conference website.