The User-Meeting will concentrate on advanced simulation and design-optimization technology specific to turbomachinery. However, there will also be important sessions on unstructured solution-adaptive simulation for aerospace, automotive and other applications. The new unstructured CFD suite FINE/HEXA, which employs efficient solution-adaptive grid-refinement/coarsening based on purely hexahedral grids, will be unveiled. Although HEXA/NS is only now being released, it has already been used in large-scale consulting studies and consortium projects concentrating on such topics as DES and aero-acoustics simulation.

For more information and to register, visit the NUMECA web site.

K-Epsilon now....
then something far more complex!
Does it matter much?

Previously, the firm’s engineers found that applications designed in-house to solve specific problems were difficult to use, mainly because the applications only offered a DOS command line interface. However, this limitation has now been overcome. “The subject matter experts themselves used EASA to wrap GUIs around these applications, making it possible for far more engineers to take advantage of the time savings they provide,” said Denny Hayek, Process Engineering Manager for Monsanto.

Formerly known as Virtual Vantage, ACUITIV 3.2 software for Windows® 2000, UNIX and Linux will be available for delivery this February. In addition to releasing support for Windows® 2000, the ACUITIV™ Software Group (ASG) has added multiple enhancements including support for Plot3D function files, STL and TecPlot data formats; grouping of sub-geometries within the original model; improved 3D GUI and navigation; Linux performance enhancements; and user selectable isosurface colors.

ANSYS has agreed to pay approximately $21 million in cash to CFX's parent company, AEA Technology PLC (London: AAT), to complete the acquisition. The Company estimates that the transaction will be accretive to adjusted earnings in fiscal year 2003, excluding the impact of purchase accounting adjustments relative to the recognition of deferred lease revenue and the amortization of purchased intangibles. The transaction, which is subject to certain closing conditions, is expected to close in February 2003. CFX, which will continue to be headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, will separately maintain its product and service businesses.

With es-turbo, the simulation of complex geometries in gas turbines including stationary and rotating blade rows is made simpler by its ability to automatically create high quality computational meshes. Users of CFD codes, including the CD adapco Group's own code, STAR-CD, can be freed from time-consuming mesh generation, allowing them to focus on the real engineering challenges of optimizing the performance and efficiency of land-based gas turbines.