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Gridgen Mesh Appears on X-Plane Express Mail Stamp

Posted Thu May 03, 2007 @05:43PM

The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently issued an Express Mail stamp featuring NASA's X-15 aircraft. The stamp image also shows a CFD grid generated using Pointwise's Gridgen software.

The USPS, in conjunction with NASA, celebrated the first day of issue of two X-Plane stamps at an unveiling ceremony held at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia on 17 March 2006.

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Education: Flomerics Announces EFD for Education Initiative

Posted Thu May 03, 2007 @05:39PM

Flomerics Group plc announced it is to provide its popular Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD) simulation software to universities and colleges around the world for teaching and research purposes.

Flomerics’ EFD for Education Initiative aims to ensure that mechanical engineering students and researchers have access to the latest fluid dynamics software used in industry.

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New Software: FLUENT for CATIA V5 Enhances Productivity Through Integration and Automation

Posted Tue May 01, 2007 @09:35AM

ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, has announced the release of version 3.0 of FLUENT® for Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA V5 software. This release provides workflow enhancements and new features that further improve the integration of Fluent’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology in the CATIA V5 product lifecycle management (PLM) environment. FLUENT technologies are now part of the ANSYS CFD suite, from the company’s recent acquisition of Fluent Inc.

This new release was developed by Fluent as a member of Dassault Systèmes’ CAA V5 software community program. FLUENT for CATIA V5 delivers the ANSYS vision of Simulation Driven Product Development to customers working within the V5 PLM environment pioneered by Dassault Systèmes.

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COMSOL Becomes SolidWorks Solution Partner

Posted Tue May 01, 2007 @09:30AM

SolidWorks Corporation, the leader in 3D CAD technology, and COMSOL, the worldwide leader in multiphysics simulation software, have strengthened their ties: SolidWorks has named COMSOL as one of its select Solution Partners.

This program provides SolidWorks users with access to integrated products and services that can further boost productivity. In this case, COMSOL Multiphysics includes a feature in the CAD Import Module called the SolidWorks Live Connection, an easy-to-use bidirectional link that allows users to modify a geometry in the CAD environment and automatically transfer these changes to a linked multiphysics model based on that geometry.

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Business: CEI Licenses ABAQUS Reader to Red Cedar Technology

Posted Sat April 28, 2007 @09:53AM

Computational Engineering International (CEI) announced today an agreement to license its ABAQUS ODB API Reader to East Lansing, M.I.-based Red Cedar Technology. The agreement will make it possible for Red Cedar Technology to incorporate the reader into its HEEDS application, a program which interfaces with all popular computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications to automate the design optimization process.

CEI’s ABAQUS ODB API Reader will allow Red Cedar Technology to enhance its HEEDS program by creating a more specialized interface to ABAQUS.

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New Software: CFdesign for Autodesk Inventor 2008

Posted Fri April 27, 2007 @05:49PM

Blue Ridge Numerics is officially releasing CFdesign® upfront CFD software for Autodesk Inventor 2008.

As an integrated and fully associative extension of Inventor 2008, CFdesign is an interactive 3D flow bench and thermal test rig providing engineers with the total product performance picture without the time and expense of building and testing physical prototypes.

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