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Events: Speeding Up Natural Convection Analyses - Part 3

Posted Tue May 01, 2012 @10:45AM

CD-adapco will host Speeding up my natural convection analyses - Part 3 at 10am (New York) on May 24th, 2012.

Radiation is one of the three fundamental modes of heat transfer, yet it is often ignored in electronics cooling simulations.

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Blue Origin Tests Design of Next-Generation Spacecraft

Posted Tue May 01, 2012 @09:12AM

Blue Origin successfully tested the design of its next-generation Space Vehicle, completing a series of wind tunnel tests to refine the aerodynamic characteristics of the spacecraft’s unique biconic shape.

The tests were carried out as part of Blue Origin’s partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the agency’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Blue Origin is designing the Space Vehicle to provide safe, affordable transport of up to seven astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station.

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Business: ANSYS Announces Strategic Agreement with FMC Technologies

Posted Mon April 30, 2012 @09:43AM

ANSYS and FMC Technologies have executed a long-term strategic agreement for simulation software that can standardize design analysis and provide scalability for growth.

FMC Technologies is a leading global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. The energy industry is under incredible pressure to increase efficiency, maximize recovery and decrease environmental impact.

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Application: CFD Leads to Winglet Performance Improvement

Posted Mon April 30, 2012 @09:36AM

Seattle-based Aviation Partners (API) is ready to flight test a slate of new technologies with the goal of allowing aircraft operators to boost fuel economy and correspondingly produce less carbon without the need to buy new aircraft.

Along with variations on the winglet theme, including spiroids, split winglets and scimitar tips, API is also investigating ways to reduce drag with modified wing shapes and placement of vortex generators to prevent airflow separation just forward of the ailerons and spoilers, and in aft-body areas.

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New Software: Desktop Engineering Announces the Launch of XFlow 2012

Posted Mon April 30, 2012 @09:27AM

Desktop Engineering (DTE), a leading engineering software solutions provider and strategic business partner of MSC Software, has announced the UK launch of MSC’s XFlow 2012; a state-of-the-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution.

The latest release of XFlow has been written to run on all Linux platforms as well as Windows, and also now features distributed memory processing across HPC clusters to offer near linear scalability of analysis.

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Business: TechNavio Releases Global CFD Market Forecast

Posted Thu April 26, 2012 @11:19AM

TechNavio has released their Global Computational Fluid Dynamics Market 2011–2015 report based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts.

The report covers the Americas and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global Computational Fluid Dynamics market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.

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