Fluent Offers Enhanced Engine Simulation.(Product Announcement)

Version 5.5 of Fluent, the computational fluid dynamics software from Fluent Inc., offers new features and enhancements in areas including solvers, physical model post processing, and file import/export. Fluent also now comes with an option of running with GT-Power, a gas dynamics and engine simulation program from Gamma Technologies. When Fluent is coupled to GT-Power, users can integrate the former's CFD flow modeling of individual components with the latter's system-level simulation capabilities for better overall engine simulation. Coupling can currently take place in the following areas: velocity inlet, mass flow inlet, pressure inlet, and pressure outlet.

Fluent 5.5 also features a new algorithm for particle-path integration that will improve particle-tracking accuracy. In addition, users can now work with up to 50 (the previous limit was 20) species transport equations ...