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Research: Fluid Dynamics Works on Nanoscale in Real World
Posted Thu April 19, 2007 @09:16AM
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News In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the real world, too – that is, outside of a vacuum. The results appear in the February 9 issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL).

Understanding the motion of fluids is the basis for a tremendous amount of engineering and technology in contemporary life. Planes fly and ships sail because scientists understand the rules of how fluids like water and air behave under varying conditions.

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New Software: Harpoon Version 2.5 Released
Posted Tue April 17, 2007 @08:23AM
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News Sharc’s Extreme Mesher, has just been released with improved meshing algorithms.

Months of work behind the scenes has resulted in new optimization algorithms for CFD solvers which may have had convergence problems in the past. The enhanced routines are included in the default settings of Harpoon v 2.5 which also includes an option for ‘super converge’ to help with any particularly difficult geometries.

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New Software: EnSight Release Features New Camera Functionality
Posted Mon April 16, 2007 @06:16AM
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Post Processing Computational Engineering International (CEI) announced today that its latest release of EnSight includes a sophisticated camera feature, which allows users to create 3-D visualizations with multiple vantage points. The new feature provides users with nearly limitless viewing options and makes its possible to create walk-throughs and walk-arounds, follow trace particles through flows, and simulate real-world test cameras, such as those used in automotive crash tests.

The feature eliminates the need to move a virtual object simply to view it from a different perspective. Users can now view objects from any angle simply by moving virtual cameras around the object on user-defined pathways or by positioning static cameras at any defined point.

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Blue Ridge Numerics Sponsors SAE CFD Competition
Posted Thu April 12, 2007 @05:39PM
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CFdesign Blue Ridge Numerics is pleased to announce their corporate sponsorship of the Formula SAE Competition to be held May 16-20 at the Ford Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo, Michigan.

Along with this sponsorship, representatives from Blue Ridge Numerics will present the inaugural CFdesign Computational Fluid Dynamics Award to the team who exhibits the best implementation of computational fluid dynamics for component or system design.

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Automated Unstructured Viscous Meshing
Posted Thu April 12, 2007 @03:33PM
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Grid Generation Automated unstructured grid generation is routinely used for complex CFD analysis on a wide variety of analysis problems. The speed and ease with which an unstructured mesh is created is seldom matched by other meshing techniques.

However, isotropic unstructured meshes, for example those including only tetrahedral cells, either degrade solution accuracy near viscous walls or require prohibitively large mesh sizes. The large velocity gradient in the boundary layer near viscous walls is best captured by a specialized element which is oriented perpendicular to the wall.

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Business: Flomerics - World's Fastest-Growing CFD Software
Posted Thu April 12, 2007 @03:18PM
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News Flomerics Group PLC, a leading supplier of simulation software to the engineering and electronics industries, has announced that sales increased by 24% to $27.8 million and that profits before tax, amortization of goodwill, exceptional items and share-based payments increased by 30% to $2.9 million.

A key factor in these results was the company’s acquisition of Nika GmbH in July 2006. Global sales of Nika’s “Engineering Fluid Dynamics” (EFD) software grew by 33% in 2006, and Flomerics believes that EFD is now the world’s fastest-growing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) product. Revenues excluding those resulting from the acquisition of Nika grew by 13% to $25.3 million.

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