London, Wednesday April 20 2005: CD-adapco, the leading provider of CAD-embedded flow simulation solutions will once again exhibit at Solidmodelling, the UK’s outstanding design technology event, at the NEC in Birmingham (April 27th & 28th 2005). During the exhibition, representatives will be at Stand 55 and will be available to discuss CD-adapco’s “Enterprise-wide solution” in particular focusing on the STAR-CCM+ Box Set and Surface Wrapping.

STAR-CAD Series: CAD-embedded Design-centric CFD. The release of the STAR –CCM+ box set, the world's first fully integrated process for polyhedral CFD was announced by CD-adapco in March. The first official release of the STAR-CCM+ Box Set combines CD-adapco's technology leading STAR-CCM+ solver with STAR-Design, which is the world's first commercially available polyhedral mesher.

STAR-Design, CD-adapco's fully functional parametric solid modeler, allows polyhedral meshes to be created at the click of a button. Based on the same Parasolid kernel that powers many leading CAD packages, STAR-Design is both powerful and easily accessible. Using an intuitive interface, even a casual user can easily build, mesh and run an industrial strength CFD simulation. Using STAR-Design, polyhedral meshes can be easily generated from the created (or imported) CAD geometry at the click of a button.

CD-adapco President Steve MacDonald is confident that "Tetrahedra - as well as the CFD codes which continue to rely on them - are doomed to become a thing of the past".

Surface Wrapping: CD-adapco's unique surface wrapping capability is designed to make painful surface preparation a thing of the past. Before the advent of surface wrapping, repairing CAD was the biggest single bottleneck in the mesh generation’s process.

At the click of a button the surface wrapper will: detect leaks, close holes and gaps, join disconnected surfaces, remove interior surfaces, merge overlapping surfaces and guarantee a manifold closed surface - first time, every time. Originally developed for underhood modeling - involving complex assemblies of hundreds of overlapping CAD parts - surface wrapping is useful in any situation where your CAD is too big, too complex or too “dirty” to mesh effectively. By removing the critical bottleneck of manual surface repair, the total time to simulation can be reduced by days or even weeks.

"CD-adapco's surface wrapping feature is the most automatic approach that exists. It has saved us weeks of clean up when carrying out our airflow studies and provides us with significant time and cost savings", says Walter Bauer of DaimlerChrysler.

CD-adapco is a global enterprise providing advanced computationally-based engineering solutions. Our core products are the technology-leading codes, STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+ capable of handling complex fluid flow and heat transfer problems including transient flows, chemical reaction & combustion, rotating systems, multiphase and multiphysics. However, the scope of our activities extends beyond CFD software development to encompass a wide range of engineering services in CFD and FEA, CAD-embedded options, the transfer of technology via expert systems and support.

Come along to meet us at Stand 55, and find out more.

www.cd-adapco.com