BRUSSELS, Belgium - August 27th 2018 - NUMECA International, a global leader in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) multiphysics and optimization, is pleased to announce today the recent acquisition of all shares of the Lausanne-based company Flowkit Ltd., a technology company specialized in Lattice Boltzmann methods.

This acquisition comes two years after the parties signed an exclusive partnership for the industrial exploitation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) code PALABOS. During this period a new enhanced monolithic Lattice Boltzmann code has been developed with extended capabilities, OMNIS™/LB, fully integrated in the OMNIS™ Platform, now available to worldwide customers.

Charles Hirsch, President of NUMECA Int. highlights “With the acquisition of FlowKit and its longstanding experience in the development of advanced LB methodologies, NUMECA Int. is offering a state-of-the-art range of LB based multiphysics applications. NUMECA will hereby provide customers with an extended and diverse portfolio of combined Navier-Stokes and Lattice Boltzmann methodologies, integrated in one common platform OMNIS™, allowing adapting the underlying tools and methods to the specific industries”.

Jonas Latt, Director of FlowKit-Numeca Group, shares “We are looking forward, with enthusiasm, at the extended partnership with NUMECA towards the further joint development and applications of OMNIS™/LB”.

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