Intelligent Light releases FIELDVIEW 11 post-processor with new productivity and capability features including the FIELDVIEW Advanced Technology Viewer tool

Productivity, innovation, and collaboration benefits realized as FIELDVIEW 11 delivers direct response to customer capability requirements

Rutherford, NJ (November 2, 2005) – Intelligent Light’s FIELDVIEW 11 software is now shipping and it brings dramatic new capabilities to CFD post-processing and visualization. The lead feature improvements are dynamic clipping, parametric streamline seeding, and the FIELDVIEW ATViewer interrogation and collaboration tool. The features will give users new capabilities and greatly enhance their productivity. The release also provides support for a broad range of both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms supporting the evolving mix of hardware and operating systems.

FIELDVIEW Advanced Technology Viewer (ATViewer) is a revolutionary new capability that utilizes the latest graphics technologies to deliver tremendous interactive performance even with large, unsteady datasets. Now the largest CFD datasets with hundred of thousands of streaklines can be explored at fully interactive frame rates. The FIELDVIEW ATViewer software uses an extract database created by FIELDVIEW that can be much smaller than the native dataset. The extract database contains all surfaces, rakes and relevant scalar, thresholding, and vector data allowing detailed, interactive analysis of steady and transient datasets using a local workstation. Analysis results can be shared among users and non-users of the FIELDVIEW post-processor using the free FIELDVIEW ATViewer software to review results.

“I was amazed when I started working with our data using the FIELDVIEW ATViewer software. To see moving flows and to interact with the data at 15-20 frames per second (fps) is a fundamental change in the way we can work,” said Dr. Earl Duque, leader of the Intelligent Light response to the HPC Analytics Challenge and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. “I have been able to quickly see the development of unique airflows that affect the efficiency of rotor turbines. This has huge implications for the development of highly efficient wind energy, and more broadly, for the way that CFD is practiced and the impact it can have beyond the CFD community.”

Dynamic Clipping – Quickly clear model detail to reveal airflows in specific areas of interest. Simple mouse click and draw commands are used to interactively cut away parts of the model to see beyond obstructions or inside. Multiple cuts can be made using lines or boxes to pare away some parts of the model to easily expose the most relevant part of the dataset. For example, dynamically clipping away parts of a Formula 1 race car model to isolate an area of interest such as the front wing may require as little as a single simple mouse click and drag action. Dynamic clipping is fully integrated with the quantitative features of FIELDVIEW and with FVX™ for automation.

Parametric Streamline Seeding – A powerful new set of tools to create spherical, rectangular, or circular streamline seeding patterns in FIELDVIEW datasets. The new streamline seeding patterns can be created interactively through the GUI or in a fully automated way using FIELDVIEW FVX programs.

Platform support expands – Reflecting the proliferation of 64-bit computing platforms and strong customer interest, FIELDVIEW 11 brings support for several new platforms including AMD64 Opteron, SGI Prism, MAC OS X, and more 64-bit platforms. Linux support and testing has been expanded to provide coverage across most common 32-bit and 64-bit distributions. Stereo viewing support has also been added to Linux versions. HP-UX on Itanium support will soon be delivered in a follow-up to the initial release.

FIELDVIEW Product Manager Matt Godo, Ph.D. said “Our customers are driving their use of CFD and FIELDVIEW into ambitious new directions and are facing productivity demands that require the highest levels of performance and efficiency. FIELDVIEW 11 responds with broad support for the latest hardware and software technologies while delivering features that will permit large productivity increases within existing customer workflow environments. The response from our early access customers has been tremendous.”

About Intelligent Light Intelligent Light, located in Rutherford, New Jersey, was founded in 1984 with a mission to provide the scientific and engineering community with the best possible tools for understanding data and communicating results. The company provides CFD post-processing and big data visualization capability, under the industry leading FIELDVIEW brand, to thousands of HPC users in the aerospace, automotive and general manufacturing industries. Their unique development team is composed of CFD experts, computer scientists, and visualization experts focused on listening to clients and delivering products that meet their needs.

FIELDVIEW, FVX, and FIELDVIEW ATViewer are trademarks of Intelligent Light. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Image: Airflow patterns in and around aircraft landing gear can have impact on heating and cooling issues associated with braking. To get a clearer understanding of flow around one of the rear wheels, two interactive dynamic clips were made to create the cut-away view on the right.