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	French User Conference 2004 October 10, 2004 As sponsors of the Renault F1 Team, the Test Centre in Paris was the exciting choice of location for hosting CD-adapco’s recent French User Conference. Following a welcome from CD-adapco’s President Steve MacDonald, the meeting commenced with a presentation from Didier Halbronn, Vice-President of Sales, describing how CD-adapco’s products have developed in response to understanding our clients’ environments and helping them find the best solution. The result is a new CAD-embedded process that underlies both of our enterprise wide CFD solutions, STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+, as well as the design-centric STAR-CAD series. David Gosman, Vice-President of Technology, elaborated on future product development plans. “CFD will remain the core focus but there will be a shift into other areas of Computational Continuum Mechanics (CCM) to take advantage of polyhedral meshing technology and new coupled solvers with CAD-embedded versions”, he said. “New physics modeling will include developments in the core areas of turbulent flows, eulerian multiphase flows, chemical reaction modeling and there will also be an important focus on thermal and solar radiation modeling.” Merci! We would like to thank our clients who presented their interesting applications. Philippe Regior of the CFD Group at Renault gave a presentation describing the optimization of aerodynamics and acoustic effects using STAR-CD coupled with GT-Power. Cedrik Staudohar of Renault R & D, described how 3D simulations with STAR-CD have been successfully integrated into the process of engine development by for example, providing answers to the Engine Designer about hard parameters such as intake and exhaust pipe geometries, and soft parameters such as injector pressure. Philippe Regoir of the CFD Group at Renault F1 also gave a presentation describing the optimization of aerodynamics and acoustic effects using STAR-CD coupled with GT-Power. Other presenters included clients from Valeo Climatisation (Blower noise prediction), MBDA Missile Systems (Impinging jet), ENSAE Mastere TAS, FFT (Aeroacoustics), CNIM (Furnace modelisation), Packinox (Heat exchangers optimisation), Groupe SEB (Beer distributor analysis) and the University of Manchester (LES applied on polyhedral mesh). Thanks also go to IBM for sponsorship of the Conference and the Cocktail reception. Winners of tickets to the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile 2004 included V.Pupin of Framatome, Pierre Arbez of Liebherr, Cedrik Staudohar of Renault R & D and Didier Beaumont of Gryphon Techologies. The next CD-adapco User Conference to take place will be the European STAR User Conference 2005, February 28 – March 1 in London.