dynamics issue #27 Released: March 2007 Introduction by Dr. Richard Johns Automotive Director, CD-adapco: "It’s not often that the word “breakthrough” can be used legitimately in the business of powertrain analysis. Having worked for over 35 years in the CAE and software departments of OEMs, engineering consultancies and CAE software companies..." Read more

Contents

Product News

• STAR-CD 4.02
  Flow, thermal & stress simulation in a single solver
  
• Best practices
  Guidelines on CAD for Simulation

Flow, Thermal, Stress

• Simulation in STAR-CD V4
• Water jacket optimization using CFD & FEM
• FSI for membrane structures
• Approaches to Industrial Fluid-Structures Interaction

Oil & Gas

• Computer flow simulation
  Providing new insight into hurricane resistant platform design
  
  
• Repair sensitivity study
  for compressor inlet labyrinth seal using Computational Fluid Dynamics
  
  
• Safer flare design with CFD

Aerospace

• STAR-CCM+
  enables ICON to develop complete-cabin CFD simulation process for Airbus
  
  
• Flapping Airfoil Analysis of Micro Air Vehicles using STAR-CD

Sport

• CD-adapco help Felt Racing
  to design “the most aerodynamic, UCI-legal bicycle frame ever created”
  

Biomedical

• STAR-WORKS helps VIASYS healthcare breathe easier

Pharmaceutical

• Medicine Manufacture with STAR-Pro/E
  Manesty

Chemical Process

• Operational Optimization of a Municipal Waste Incinerator
• Big in Japan

Building & Environment

• Large Eddy Simulations with STAR-CCM+
• Urban Scale Weather Modeling
  NCAS and CD-adapco Partnership

Dr Mesh

• Dr Mesh on Modern Art & Surface Wrapping