ESI Group Announced CFD-ACE+ V2009.0

By DE Editors

Boundary Layer Meshing

ESI Group (Paris, France), a supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, released CFD-ACE+ V2009.0. This version strengthens the modular and expandable design of CFD-ACE+ that offers users the highest level of flexibility. ESI Group’s CFD-ACE+, the industry’s most advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multiphysics software, enables coupled simulations of fluid, thermal, chemical, biological, electrical, and mechanical phenomena for a variety of applications across a wide range of industries.

In the V2009.0 release, the company says there are more than 30 additions and improvements across all applications.

Improvements in CFD-ACE+ V2009.0 reduce CPU costs of transient simulations using Fast Time Stepping by ensuring convergence of each time step within a few iterations.

The improvement of the two-phase module with a new numerical formulation is more robust and faster to converge — two-phase coupling allows the most accurate modeling of two-phase simulations in porous media regions.

V2009.0 includes advances in accuracy of the CFD-ACE+ solver and the mesh generation capabilities in CFD-GEOM. The general-purpose mesh generation tool CFD-GEOM has added front surface triangulation to its set of surface meshing tools.

CFD-ACE+ V2009.0 also offers ESI CFD Mobile support, which provides remote access to CFD-ACE+ core applications (CFD View and CFD GUI). Indeed, ESI CFD Mobile allows engineers and managers to have handheld access to their postprocess solutions remotely from their iPhone or iPod Touch.

For further information, visit ESI Group.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.