Faster Design Analysis - Blue Ridge Numerics Inc. software product information - Brief Article

Automotive Manufacturing & Production, August, 2001

Who: Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. (Charlottesville. VA)

What: CFDesign 5.0 fluid flow and heat transfer analysis software

Why you should care: This software claims such a high level of integration with PTC's Pro/ENGINEER design-through-manufacturing software that changes make in Pro/ENGINEER are automatically reflected in CFDesign, which eliminates time-wasting recreation of data. Since CFDesign's analysis is immediately incorporated in the Pro/ENGINEER system, an engineer can try multiple solution scenarios until the best one is found.

Pertinent Data: New features in CFDesign 5.0 include: the ability to apply boundary conditions to any units system; parts of similar materials can be combined into one material type in the feature tree; mass flow through can automatically calculated and updated when the plane is repositioned.