As sponsors of the Renault F1 Team, the
Test Centre in Paris was the exciting choice of location
for CD-adapco to host our French User Conference in September.
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 CDadapco’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
CADembedded versions”, he said. “New physics modeling wil 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 F1 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
modelization), 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.
After our hugely successful major European User Conference in London, February
2005, the next Conferences to take place will
be in North America in May 2005 and France and Germany in September 2005.
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