CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

22 March 2005

Product News

Higher Quality, Lower Cost Consumer & Materials Products with FLUENT 6.2

Fluent Inc. recently announced the release of the latest version of its flagship CFD software, FLUENT 6.2. This release has over 300 new capabilities, many of which are important for semiconductor and electronics applications. FLUENT 6.2 also broadens the spectrum of potential CFD applications in both the food and consumer products industries. At the same time, key enhancements to the core FLUENT solver have led to dramatic speed-ups and improved accuracy, providing a significant step forward in the design of metal, glass and plastic products.

FLUENT 6.2 offers the most extensive set of CFD modeling capabilities available to the materials industry, providing the ability to design products faster, with higher quality and at lower cost than ever before:

•  "Free surface" modeling to optimize the filling of bottles and containers

•  Reliable and robust radiation models for glass and metals applications

•  An easy-to-use moving/deforming mesh approach for modeling the complex motion of twin screw extruders, mixing impellers, and other solid parts

•  High accuracy, advanced LES/DES turbulence models for capturing complex flow patterns in electronic devices

•  Industry-leading multiphase flow modeling, including phase-change, for analyzing cooling, solidification, and melting

•  Enhanced dispersed phase models for spray drying and vaporization in cosmetics manufacture.

Many features within FLUENT 6.2 are useful for optimizing the production of raw materials or designing and manufacturing new devices. In addition, combinations of new and enhanced features allow users to simulate new physical phenomena. For example, the VOF method for free surfaces when used together with the moving mesh model permits users to accurately simulate partially filled screws, complete glass furnace modeling and food mixing.

Thierry Marchal, Fluent's Global Materials Segment Manager said of FLUENT 6.2; "It is a critical step forward in increasing the popularity and effectiveness of computer-based fluid simulation tools in the materials industry. New core solver enhancements have led to tremendous speed-ups, of up to a factor of 10, for unsteady simulations as observed during beta testing. FLUENT 6.2 is able to easily handle complex geometries while continuing to deliver high accuracy results. Speed and ease of use, combined with advanced physics, are the key CFD requirements for designing better food products, new materials, and more advanced devices, faster and at lower cost than ever before. Hence, FLUENT 6.2 is a milestone for applied CFD software, built on a proven legacy of delivering real world materials solutions within realistic industrial timescales."

 

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