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Speedo turns to Ansys to help develop Fastskin Racing System

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Randall Newton

Virtual prototyping with multiphysics analysis reduced the need for real-world testing. Competitive swimmers this summer can streamline performance thanks to ...

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Project Falcon puts a wind tunnel simulator inside Alias

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Randall Newton

Autodesk is exploring a new simulation meshing technology for real time results, by trying it out inside industrial design. For ...

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Flow-3D update adds two new CFD models, parallelization

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Randall Newton

New models for fluid structure interaction and thermal stress evolution lead a wide variety of updates. The new version of ...

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Intelligent Light FieldView makes CFD data dance

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Randall Newton

The new release, three years in the making, delivers fast visualization of analysis data, high compression ratios, and a new ...

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Lufthansa Technik uses multi-physics simulation to predict aircraft engine wear

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Randall Newton

Ansys software makes condition-based maintenance of jet turbines more reliable by adding a predictive element. Lufthansa Technik AG, one of ...

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Autodesk to acquire CFD vendor Blue Ridge Numerics for $39 million

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Randall Newton

Blue Ridge products are used in both products development and construction engineering. It has a sizable customer list of PTC ...

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Altair Engineering acquires Acusim Software for CFD

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Randall Newton

Acquisition solidly positions Altair as a major player in the CFD market and at the forefront of multi-physics simulation. Altair ...

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FloTHERM update adds industry-first thermal analysis bottleneck and shortcut processes

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Randall Newton

One early tester of the patent-pending processes says it significantly reduced development costs on an Energy Star-compliant design for a ...

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SolidWorks Rolls Out 200+ New Features for 2011

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Randall Newton

Contributing Analyst Steve Wolfe sorts through the list and takes a close look at the most important features in the ...

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Exocortex Debuts Adaptive Multi-Core Fluid Analysis

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Steve Wolfe

By L. Stephen Wolfe, P.E. Contributing Analyst Mention Siggraph and most people think of sophisticated computer graphics for making movies ...