Worldwide STAR Conferences

CD-adapco STAR Conferences are more than just another CFD event; they are a gathering of some of the top experts and users in industrial CFD. Taking place annually in your local region, these conferences enable you to keep in touch with the very latest technology and techniques and fully leverage the potential of industrial flow simulation in your engineering process. They also help you to get the best return from your investment in our software.

Hear our specialist Keynote speakers, meet with your Support team and be informed by the presentations given by our industrial clients about real world CFD applications. Our conferences are also accompanied by an exhibition of our hardware and software partners, allowing you access to the most complementary and compatible tools for our software. Our conferences are not only intended for existing users of our software, but for the whole CFD community.

As well as a programme of presentations detailing our Users experiences with our software, you can also take part in Workshops, Training and tutorials as well as hands-on demonstrations of the CD-adapco software of your choice.

STAR European Conference

Our recent European STAR Conference in London saw the launch of STAR-CD V4, the next version of CD-adapco's flagship CFD code STAR-CD, and Users from across Europe present on a variety of topics. Keynote speakers this year were:Jon Hilton, Technical Director, Renault Formula 1 Team and Philippe Anrigo, Head of Combustion, Renault France presenting on each of their organization’s successful partnership with CD-adapco.We were also joined by Cosworth Ltd, Aerotherm Computational Dynamics, South Africa, Volvo Cars, Audi, PBMR, South Africa, CERN, Airbus Toulouse, ArvinMeritor - ProS3 –MSC, Icon, Van Oossanen & Associates b.v,Electrolux Major Appliances Europe, Sarov Labs, Southampton University and the University of Manchester. During the conference there were also two well-attended technical workshops on: Transitioning from STAR-CD 3.26 to STAR-CD V4 and Advanced meshing in STAR-CCM+ and hands-on demo points for the STAR-CAD Series and STAR-Design. We were supported during the conference by our partners from ABAQUS Inc, Adept Scientific, BULL, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Icon, Intel, Intelligent Light, Microsoft, MSC, P&Z Engineering, SCAI, SGI and UGS. During the evening on Day 1, all delegates, Partners and CDadapco employees took part in a Casino evening after dinner with a prize of a 5.2-mega-pixel camera for the shrewdest gambler - kindly sponsored by Hewlett Packard. This was won by Roger Blom, FS Dynamics, who managed to win the most fun money during the evening. Microsoft also sponsored a draw to win a wireless mouse and keyboard, which was won by Carel Viljoen of PBMR and in the CD-adapco “Guess the number of Polyhedral Cells” competition, an iPod nano was won by Christof Hinterberger of Arvinmeritor. To request a CD of the conference presentations please email; amanda.batson@uk.cd-adapco.com

STAR Conference France Later this year the STAR Conference France, will take place at the Forest Hill Hotel, Paris on the 19th September 2006. Airbus, Alstom Transport and Valeo Thermique Habitacle are already confirmed to present, and IBM will sponsor the event. If you wish to submit a paper for this conference, or you wish to sponsor the event in some way, please email your request to info@fr.cd-adapco.com.

You will receive your invite and more information on this Conference shortly, but if you have any questions before you do – please email info@fr.cd-adapco.com for more information.

STAR American Conference

The next STAR Conferences on our calendar will be our American meetings, taking place at the Sheraton Detroit Novi in Michigan on May 23-24, 2006 and the Hilton San Diego Mission Valley in California on May 25th, 2006.

We have some leading Keynote speakers joining us this year:

• David Cole, Chairman, from the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor
  
• Lawrence Wiley, Manager of Compliance, Documentation & Intellectual Property from GE Infrastructure-Wind Systems Engineering
  
• John L. Givens Jr., GM Powertrain Director
  
• Dr. James Laylek, Computational Center for mobility systems - Clemson University

We would also urge you to join us for our CAE Panel Discussion with our Keynote Speakers and Industry Experts when we discuss:
"Using Virtual Engineering as a competitive weapon for change" on Tuesday May 23, 2006 at 11.15am

At the STAR American Conferences you can learn the latest simulation techniques from expert CD-adapco staff and experienced users from North America and meet the people behind the software, from management to developers to support engineers. You can also network with other CFD users and hear how they employ CD-adapco software to get the best return on investment, experience our latest CAE technology, with seminars and hands on demos and listen to presentations from top industrial users, describing new and innovative applications of CFD technology.

You can register online here: http://www.cd-adapco.com/ugm_us/register.html

STAR Deutschland Konferenz

At our STAR Deutschland Konferenz in Munich last year, Dr. Gangolf Kohnen from Toyota Motorsport GmbH presented our keynote speech, about “The role of CFD in the Development Process of a Formula 1 Car at Toyota Motorsport GmbH”. We also had presentations from BEHR, Bombardier Transportation, promeos GmbH, Wärtsilä Propulsion, ArvinMeritor Emissions Technologies GmbH, FEV Motorentechnik GmbH, Thermoteccfd GmbH, BMW AG, Germanischer Lloyd AG and TinniT Technologies GmbH amongst others.

Our exhibition of our Partners included IBM Deutschland GmbH, Unigraphics Solutions GmbH, IMAGINE Software GmbH, FE-Design GmbH, Silicon Graphics GmbH, Hewlett- Packard GmbH, LMS Deutschland GmbH and Engineous Software GmbH. CD-adapco employees, Users and Partners gathered at the beautiful Alte Gärtnerei, in München-Taufkirchen for the traditional Conference dinner and entertainment. After dinner all attendees took part in a Sports quiz, to win leather footballs, tying in nicely with the FIFA World Cup starting in Germany this year!

During the conference Mr. Klaus Vehreschild from AUDI AG was the winner of the conference competition where each delegate was randomly given a key to a padlock on registering, and the winners key opened the box. The prize was a fantastic ticket to the German Grand Prix in Nürburgring.

To request a CD of the conference presentations please email; info@de.cd-adapco.com