Fort Worth, TX, February 25, 2004 – Pointwise recently added two new international distributorships to market and sell Gridgen, Pointwise’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software. CODYSEC of Madrid, Spain and Anova of Istanbul, Turkey, will market, sell, and support Gridgen in their respective countries.

CODYSEC was founded in Madrid, Spain in 2002 to provide research, development, and innovative services to emerging technologies in Spain. They assist in developing products and processes through computer simulation. Additionally, they work to optimize industrial processes through the use of computer simulation. CODYSEC will distribute Gridgen in Spain and Portugal.

Anova is an independent company founded in 2003 providing fluid mechanics engineering software and services in Turkey. Their staff has an extensive technical background and has completed many fluid dynamics design and analysis projects. Their clients span the automotive, aerospace, marine, general industrial, and academic arenas, including such companies as Acerlik R&D, Mercedes-Benz Turkey, Ford Otosan, and Ataturk University. Anova is located in Istanbul.

About Pointwise: Pointwise is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today: mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Gridgen runs on Unix, Linux, and Windows; generates structured, unstructured, and hybrid grids; and interfaces with CFD solvers such as Fluent, STAR-CD, and CFX as well as many neutral formats like CGNS (www.cgns.org). Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Gridgen as their complete pre-processing toolkit. Further information on Gridgen can be obtained from Pointwise's web site, http://www.pointwise.com.

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