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Engineering Bugaboo: Software Interoperability
Posted Mon February 13, 2006 @08:48AM
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News Karen Auguston Field from Design News has posted an article on CAD software interoperability stating that most design engineers use 3 or 4 different CAD tools in a given month. Of course CAE users are familiar with this problem with analysis geometry routinely provided in a variety of formats.

A troubling statistic from the survey quoted in the article is that:

the survey revealed low adoption rates of industry standard formats like STEP and IGES. Though these neutral formats were created specifically to facilitate the exchange of disparate CAD models, only 19 percent of the respondents reported using either of them.

As a result, the engineers surveyed had developed their own solutions for dealing with the problem which includes exchanging PDF files and rapid prototypes rather than CAD models.

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Application: Fast Hex Meshing Compared with Tetrahedral Meshing
Posted Sun February 12, 2006 @06:33PM
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Application The purpose of a recent study performed by DaimlerChrysler was to compare the performance of Harpoon-based CFD against previous solutions of internal flow through an automotive water pump using tetrahedral meshes.

The effect of mesh skew on accuracy and convergence was observed. Fourteen operating speeds were simulated from 1000-7500rpm at 500rpm increments.

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New Software: New Generation CFD Software Released
Posted Wed February 08, 2006 @06:19PM
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News Symban Power Systems Ltd has released APUS-CFD1.4, a new generation of CFD software supplied to its customers at a very competitive price.

APUS-CFD is a fully interactive, Arbitrary Polyhedral Unstructured Solver. It provides a complete solution from model-building to automatic mesh generation and from parallel and grid computing to real-time visualization in an integrated and interactive environment. The APUS-CFD solver is robust, fast, scalable and has been validated on a number of industrial applications.

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Business: Flow Science Announces New Distributor for Australia and New Zealand
Posted Mon February 06, 2006 @09:55PM
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News Flow Science, Inc. announced today it has entered into an agreement with WorleyParsons Ltd. for the latter firm to represent Flow Science’s FLOW-3D® computational fluid dynamics software in Australia and New Zealand.

Flow Science, Inc. is a privately-held software company specializing in the development and support of high fidelity fluid dynamics modeling software for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. Flow Science has a growing worldwide sales and support network for its FLOW-3D® software and services. Flow Science is headquartered in Santa Fe, NM.

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Application: Arup Uses Harpoon and EnSight to Visualize Sheffield City Hall Airflow
Posted Mon February 06, 2006 @09:46PM
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Application How do you test the effectiveness of something you cannot see? That is the task that faced engineers at Arup, an international consultancy firm providing engineering design services for the refurbishment of Sheffield City Hall.

The City Hall, one of Sheffield’s key multi use venues, is nearing completion of a £12.5 million refurbishment project to bring better patron access to seating and facilities, improved performer areas, new balconies and seating, and advanced conferencing and IT equipment.

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Events: CD-adapco's STAR European Conference 2006
Posted Fri February 03, 2006 @11:19AM
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CD-adapco CD-adapco's STAR European Conference is more than just another CFD event, it is an annual gathering of some of the world's top experts and users in industrial CFD.

CD-adapco invites you to take part in the 14th STAR European Conference on March 20-21, 2006. The conference is a combination of presentations and workshops given by our industrial partners and key CD-adapco employees to provide you with the latest developments in our full spectrum of CFD and CAE Software and Solutions.

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