Airpak Software Used by Singapore's Collaborative One-stop Virtual Engineering Services -COVES- System for Airflow Modeling of Factory Indoor Environments.Businesss/Technology Editors LEBANON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Fluent Inc., the world's leading CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics software provider, announces that Fluent's Airpak, a building design tool software package focused specifically on HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free systems, will be used by Singapore's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC IHPC Institute of High Performance Computing IHPC Indice Harmonizado de Preços no Consumidor IHPC International Hydrolyzed Protein Council IHPC Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium ) and the Occupational Health Department of the Ministry of Manpower to develop and trial a system called COVES (Collaborative One-Stop Virtual Engineering Simulations). COVES will improve the design of industrial buildings and be part of the streamlined web-based process for obtaining permits and certificates of approval. The two organizations have been awarded a total of 700,000 SGD SGD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Singapore Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. by The Enterprise Challenge Unit of the Prime Minister's Office The Prime Minister's Office is a small department which provides advice to a Prime Minister in some countries:
Airpak (http://www.airpak.fluent.com) is one of the simulation tools being utilized by COVES (www.coves-online.com) for three-dimensional simulation and visualization of the ventilation and dispersion of airborne contaminants and spills in buildings. COVES is a broadband internet portal offering a single point of contact, allowing engineering firms, building owners, and government agencies to collaborate and tackle Environmental, Occupational Health, Fire Safety and Emergency Response Planning issues during the design stage of buildings. This would be achieved via the use of simulation software, supporting hardware and required human expertise to create an engineering consultancy over the Internet. It also provides automatic project management services to smooth the various inter-agency processes required for building certifications. At present, prescriptive building codes have limits in ensuring safe air quality and therefore, performance-based regulations are becoming more common. Airflow modeling offers the capability to predict the exposure levels in a factory, fire and smoke movement, and environmental impacts early in the design stage. If hazards and problems were identified early during the design, control measures can be put in place more effectively and economically. Otherwise, it would lead to retrofitting of the completed building to satisfy regulations, which then lead to increased cost and delayed completion. Pricing and Availability Airpak is available on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , NT, and Linux platforms, and license fees are determined by the number of processes a user requires. Users may also purchase unlimited usage support. Visit the Airpak web site (www.airpak.fluent .com) for a listing of worldwide offices and distributors. About Fluent Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics The numerical approximation to the solution of mathematical models of fluid flow and heat transfer. Computational fluid dynamics is one of the tools (in addition to experimental and theoretical methods) available to solve (CFD) software and consulting services. Fluent's software is used for simulation, visualization, and prediction of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. ) process for companies around the world and in almost every manufacturing industry. Using Fluent's software, product development, design and research engineers build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, which helps them to optimize, troubleshoot, scale-up, and retrofit. Use of CFD software reduces time-to-market by reducing the need for costly physical testing and prototyping. Fluent's corporate headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire
Lebanon (pronounced by natives as IPA: /ˈlεbənɨn/ or , USA. Fluent's European headquarters are located in Sheffield, England, with local offices in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. Fluent's Asia Pacific headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. Its CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Middle East, and most European countries. Fluent is a subsidiary of Aavid Thermal Technologies Inc. Additional information on Fluent's products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.fluent.com or by e-mailing info@fluent.com. More information on Aavid Thermal Technologies is available at www.aavid.com. About IHPC The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) is one of the research institutes in Singapore supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Abbreviation: A*STAR; Chinese: 新加坡科学技术研究局) is a statutory board in Singapore. (A*STAR A*STAR Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore) ). IHPC develops and promotes the application of high performance computing (HPC) technologies and provides computer intensive resources and services to industry. It strives to elevate the discovery process to higher domains of science and engineering through the use of HPC technologies. IHPC focuses on upstream, industry-inspired research in engineering-based areas such as chemistry, computational mechanics, electrical computer aided engineering (application) Computer Aided Engineering - (CAE) Use of computers to help with all phases of engineering design work. Like computer aided design, but also involving the conceptual and analytical design steps. (ECAE ECAE Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (iron processing) ECAE Electrical Computer-Aided Engineering ), electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, large-scale simulations, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. ) and precision engineering as well as non-engineering areas such as computational finance and data-mining for intelligent business solutions and visualization of complex data. In addition to commercial and industry-related research, IHPC also applies HPC technology in defence-related areas such as underwater shock, flow acoustics interaction, explosion bubble dynamics and fluid-structure interactive modeling and simulation. More information about the Institute can be found at http://www.ihpc.nus.edu.sg. Airpak is a trademark of Fluent Inc., and is a joint development of Fluent Inc. and ICEM-CFD Engineering. Graphics Available Graphic images and accompanying captions to support this release can be found on the web at www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/index.htm by following the links to this release. Fluent Inc. grants permission for use of these graphics and their captions in conjunction with any or all of this press release. |
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