The companies will combine under the UGS name to become EDS's fifth line of business. Unigraphics President and CEO Tony Affuso will become president of the new business.

EDS will pay a premium of 42% over SDRC's closing price yesterday or $25 a share.

“In the last 24 months, we have seen the beginning of a network-based revolution in the way products are designed, developed and manufactured,” said Dick Brown, EDS chairman and CEO. “UGS has given us a window on this change and on the emergence of product lifecycle management, where digitized information is shared instantly and globally. Now is the time to move quickly and decisively to capture opportunities in this space.”

Brown noted the SDRC acquisition would bring EDS 7,000 clients, 85 percent of whom are new to EDS, and greatly expand relationships with companies including Ford, Mazda, Honeywell, Nissan and Nokia.

“Most importantly, we gain substantial software capability in a rapidly emerging market with significant ‘pull-through’ revenue for services from our other four lines of business,” Brown said.

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Using CFD, Coen modeled the existing burner's temperature contours, coke firing rate, flame shape and radiative heat flux to the kiln refractory.

The CFD modeling persuaded the customer that a properly designed burner system could eliminate flame impingement, increase coke firing, and meet their production requirements.

Within 16 weeks, Coen delivered a multi-fuel dual air zone kiln burner, which successfully started up in a week. The new burner conveyed the coke in an outer air zone while an inner air zone spinner created a strong recirculation zone to stabilize the difficult to burn coke fuel. For precise flame shape control, CFD modeling created unique drillings for the gas and oil firing nozzles.

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Using software to simulate the interaction between oil, water, and boom offers a less expensive alternative to channel testing, thereby reducing the cost of designing improved oil booms. Once they have a validated CFD model, researchers can quickly change the boom geometry and evaluate design alternatives. Using CFD, researchers have now identified a type of boom that has the potential to increase critical velocity by more than a factor of four. When implemented, the new net-boom structure will decrease the time needed for oil spill cleanup, protecting the environment from the effects of the oil.

Other valuable enhancements include a new free-surface modelling tool that tracks accurately the gas/liquid interface through grid movement. For combustion applications, a multi-grey gas capability has been included, allowing more accurate calculation of radiative heat transfer in furnaces.