The two greatest requirements for developing new products are innovation and tools that help you work quickly,” says Ed Williams, president, Blue Ridge Numerics. Version 9 of CFdesign CFD software will help meet these requirements. “The new version sets up quickly for first-pass fluid flow and heat transfer simulations,” continues Williams. “You can generate high-fidelity…
Helping Small Hearts
A normal active childhood can elude small children and infants with defective heart valves. Soon, however, that may change thanks to LaunchPoint Technologies, a venture-engineering firm specializing in incubating startups and developing new technology. This company is researching a Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (Pediatric VAD) that, if successful, will aid infants and small children with…
Adrenaline, Adventure & Engineering
By Marshall Matheson “Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports … all others are games.” -Earnest Hemingway This month, Design World is launching “Leadership in Engineering”, a community based print and online promotion to support and gain industry recognition for innovation and advances in engineering across several disciplines. Image appears…
Students explore airflow in early aircraft flight
One hundred years ago, Alberto Santos-Dumont flew one of the first heavier-than-air machines in Europe. Recently, a team of Brazilian students used the ANSYS ICEM CFD and CFX software to analyze and understand airflow around that plane’s surface. For the CAD model of the 14-Bis students meshed surfaces using hexahedral elementsand represented volumes with a…
Flowing into MES
By John Gyorki The ALGOR V19.2 software release, from Algor Inc., features enhancements for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Mechanical Event Simulation (MES). This version models flow obstacles as distributed resistance parts, simplifying 3D modeling. New surface-to-surface contact options (slide/no bounce contact and tied contact) offer more realistic simulation and faster MES application. Also included…
A Study in Aerodynamics
Fluent Europe Ltd. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of the fastest growing components of the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) market. CFD software turns a computer into a virtual laboratory. Engineers can study how fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and other related phenomena involving turbulent, reacting, and multiphase flow affect their designs. Recently, CFD…
Handling more data
FIELDVIEW 11.1, from Intelligent Light, delivers scalable post-processing to users of multi-core workstations, large shared memory systems, and cluster computing environments. As the size of data needing analysis has grown by 25 times, programs have increased the speeds of their processors. Fieldview offers a five times speed increase on 8 CPUs, necessary when post-processing realistic,…