London, Friday April 29 2005: CD-adapco, the leading provider of CAD-embedded flow simulation solutions are pleased to announce their participation in the 2005 PLM World Conference at the Wyndham Anatole, Dallas, TX, May 2-6, 2005. The show will bring together the PLM World community to gain a collective insight into the business-building strategy required to meet the challenges of the future. During the conference, representatives from CD-adapco will be available to discuss CD-adapco’s “Enterprise-wide” CFD solutions, with a particular focus on STAR-NX, the STAR-CCM+ Box Set and Surface Wrapping.

STAR-NX: The fastest route from Unigraphics NX and Unigraphics 18 to a CFD solution. CD-adapco's state-of-the art CFD technology is embedded in the Unigraphics NX environment, ensuring that the CFD Solution becomes an integral part of the CAD model. No other approach will get you from a Unigraphics NX model to an accurate CFD solution more quickly or reliably.

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. <>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 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 PLM world, and find out more.