Michael Dickens, CD adapco Group's Director of Business Development explains: "We have developed tightly integrated CFD 'ad-ins' that facilitate parametric design studies through enhanced automation and bi-directional associativity between CAD and CFD models. We are particularly interested in delivering this technology to CATIA V5 users since market research has placed this environment as the preferred choice among our clients as their CAD system for the future."

Keith Mountain, Vice President of Marketing, for Spatial adds, “We are pleased to have CD adapco Group as a CAA V5 Adopter. Their experience in the CFD arena is a welcome addition to the increasing number of solutions available to the CATIA V5 user community.”

This international symposium provides an open communication forum for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from academia, industry, and government. The symposium organization is quite informal, and the primary purpose is to present and discuss new, current, and work in progress of the participants. The specific goals of the symposium are the following:

• Communicate current work, new research ideas, and work in progress
• Exchange ideas involving overset grid methodologies
• Develop interactions between interested researchers
• Provide an opportunity for interaction between researchers, developers, and users.

Electronic information and registration is available at the Symposium website.

This seminar will showcase the ease and effectiveness of integrating software tools from these three partnering companies. Attendees will see a demonstration on the design of a centrifugal pump, using EASy! for Pumps, FLUENT Computational Fluid Dynamics for analysis, and Engineous iSIGHT for optimization.

Following the information-packed demonstration will be short lectures on both cavitation modeling and design process integration and optimization. The afternoon will conclude with a question and answer session.

For additional information and to register please visit the seminar website.

A combination of presentations and workshops given by clients and employees will provide CFD users with invaluable knowledge and understanding to better meet their needs. Keynote speakers at the Detroit Conference will include clients from Ford Motor Company, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler. Industrial partners such as PNNL, Combustion Science and Engineering, BMA, Sverdrup and Wright-Patterson AFB will also be presenting their successful applications of the CD adapco Group’s products and services.

The PACE Partnership, which links General Motors, EDS, Sun Microsystems and UGS PLM Solutions, seeks to integrate parametrics-based applications into the engineering, manufacturing, and design curricula of some of the most prestigious educational institutions around the globe. As these PACE institutions build expertise in the use of parametrics-based applications, students and faculty work directly with technical experts from GM, EDS, Sun Microsystems and UGS PLM Solutions to solve industrial challenges. Students involved with PACE become familiar with Fluent’s suite of CFD tools and apply that knowledge not only in the university setting, but in future professional situations.