Fluent Inc., the worldwide leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, announces Fluent France’s opening of a new office in Madrid, Spain. The new office is located in Madrid’s city centre, and will serve Fluent’s Spanish and Portuguese clients under the management of Francisco Sarasola. Eng. Sarasola has been working for 7 years at Fluent, first as an Engineer in the Development Group at the Fluent Inc. headquarters in Lebanon, NH, USA, and more recently, as a Technical and Sales Engineer at Fluent France.

To celebrate the new office opening, Fluent invites all CAE users in Spain and Portugal to participate in the upcoming Fluent Forums taking place in October 2004.

About the 2004 Fluent Forums In collaboration with IBM, Fluent is hosting the 2004 Fluent Forums, which will take place at the IBM conference centres in Portugal, October 8 and in Spain, October 15. This free one-day event in each location is open to all CAE users in the respective country.

Join Fluent to share your experiences in CFD with other Fluent users, experts, researchers and partners, or discover what fluid and thermal simulation can bring to your CAE activities.

2004 Fluent Forum Portugal October 8, 2004 Conference Center IBM - Lisbon - Rua do Mar da China - 1990-138 Lisbon - Portugal

2004 Fluent Forum Spain October 15, 2004 Conference Center IBM - Madrid - Santa Hortensia 26-28, 28002 Madrid – Spain

Forum Themes: Simulation, Integration, Profitability, Computing Evolution, Competences

Industry Applications: Aerospace, Automotive, Air & Water Quality, Heating & Cooling, Biomedical, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Marine, Combustion/Power Systems, Material Processing, Minerals/Mining/Metallurgy, Electronics/Semiconductors, Petrochemicals, Food & Beverage, Turbomachinery, Environmental, Sports, Fuel Cells and more...

User Presentations: Forum attendees will have the opportunity to attend a variety of both industrial and academic presentations where you will discover many ways to benefit from the power of CFD. A key presentation highlight will be Ferrari’s "Impact of High Perfomance Computing and CFD Simulations on the Ferrari F1 Car Aerodynamic Design".

Forum Program: Through presentations and workshops, come and discover Fluent’s range of software and services, including the recently launched FloWizard software. FloWizard is a highly automated “first-pass” flow simulation tool designed to quickly validate product design concepts in the earliest stages of the development process. This powerful, yet easy-to-use tool allows engineers to gain access to the power of fluid flow and heat transfer modelling to make informed design decisions. FloWizard is also fully customizable, and features peer-to-peer collaboration as a standard feature, allowing advanced users to collaborate with new users for support and the review of results.

Information for 2004 Fluent Forum Portugal http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/spain/support/portugalugm04/index.htm

Registration for 2004 Fluent Forum Portugal http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/spain/support/portugalugm04/online_register.htm

Information for 2004 Fluent Forum Spain http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/spain/support/spainugm04/index.htm

Registration for 2004 Fluent Forum Spain http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/spain/support/spainugm04/online_register.htm

About Fluent Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services. Fluent's software is used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the world and is deployed in nearly 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, allowing them to improve design quality while reducing cost and speeding time to market. Fluent's corporate headquarters is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, Japan and Sweden. 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.

For more information, contact: Press and Strategic Partnerships: martine.deneuville@fluent.fr - Tel: +33 1 30 60 98 97 Marketing / Logistic Spain-Portugal: maria.bories@fluent.fr Tel: + 33 1 30 60 15 62 Sales Spain -Portugal: francisco.sarasola@fluent.fr - Tel: +34 665 698 539