MultiElement Airfoils is intended for use as a conceptual design/analysis tool for the professional engineering and educational communities. The software can be used to rapidly create 2-D models and generate insight into many relevant engineering problems. For example, high lift wing configurations, race car spoilers in ground effect, biplane wings, double keel/rudder configurations, hydrofoils in shallow water, sail interactions and many other problems can be easily modeled with this tool.

Are you an engineer, scientist or manager within the process equipment design industry who would like to gain a better understanding of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and/or learn how it can be used to benefit your process unit operations? Are you curious about how CFD can be applied to your industry to gain better, faster results?

Fluent Inc. is pleased to offer two, back-to-back, one-day seminars featuring a review of CFD, and an overview of the application of CFD in the process equipment design industries. The purpose of these seminars is to teach engineers, scientists, and managers about the latest technical developments in CFD and how this technology can be used to model and improve process unit operations.

In today’s process equipment design field, the flow in equipment, such as chemical reactors, stirred tanks, fluidized beds, cyclones, spray dryers, heat exchangers, is analyzed using CFD. In many cases, the CFD analysis results in improved performance, better reliability, more confident scale-up, improved product consistency, and increased plant productivity.

Visit http://fluent.com/direct/ped_seminar/ for course descriptions, dates, location, course fee information, and to register online. You may choose to attend one or both of these seminars, depending on your background or needs.

Registration is also possible by contacting Fluent’s Training Coordinator, Kelly Carter, at 603-643-2600 or mailto:klc@fluent.com

The CD adapco Group has recognised the growing interest in fuel cell technology and the use of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) as a means of developing cleaner and more efficient electric power units for automotive applications. We have been involved in an intensive program of collaborative research and development, with expert partners such as the Fuel Cells Department of the University of South Carolina, with the aim of providing the industry with the best CFD analysis solutions in this area.

The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium, is a non-profit international educational and scientific organization, hosting three departments: aeronautics and aerospace, environmental and applied fluid dynamics, and turbomachinery. The institute provides post-graduate education in fluid dynamics and encourages "training in research through research." Created in 1956 following Theodore von Kármán's proposal, it is currently supported with subsidies from most of the member countries of NATO and with additional income derived from contract research. The Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department, created in 1974, is the youngest department at the Institute. Its activities are related to a wide range of domains such as biological flows, multiphase flows, wind effects on buildings and structures, gas dispersion in the atmosphere, heat transfer, rocket engine fuel supply, for example. Some of the industrial fields in which this department has already been active include: coating processes, continuous casting of steel, pneumatic transport, spray and jet cooling, galvanization of strips and wires, cyclone separators, synthetic fibers, micronization of solid materials, and gas/droplets separation.

Before we get to the answers, I would like to thank Dr. Raw for his prompt reply. Heading up product development at CFX is a very time-consuming job and I am thankful for his time.

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