April 10, 2006, Lebanon, NH, USA

Fluent Inc., world leader in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, announces that it is holding its 1st Symposium on Fluids Modeling in the Healthcare Industry at its annual CFD Summit, May 22-23 in Monterey, CA.

For those tasked with solving challenging problems in the healthcare industry, the Healthcare Symposium provides an opportunity to hear from industry leaders about state-of-the-art modeling techniques for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug formulation, drug delivery systems, and physiological flows. Additionally, Healthcare Symposium attendees will have access to other events at the 2006 CFD Summit. The Summit includes an additional day of multi-industry technical sessions, a poster session, a management round table, and a CFD Pavilion, all of which offer the chance to network with leading software and hardware vendors and fluid engineering specialists from other manufacturing industries such as the aerospace, electronics, materials, power and chemical process industries.

“We’ve developed a targeted Healthcare Symposium within this year’s Summit and extended the invitation to all healthcare engineering professionals,” comments Tom Norton, Director of Customer Services. “The Symposium will be of interest to any professional investigating how flow modeling can help solve their pharmaceutical manufacturing and device design problems.”

To learn more about the Symposium on Fluids Modeling in the Healthcare Industry, please visit, http://fluent.us/direct/healthcare-symposium.

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 are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, China, 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.

FLUENT® and FloWizard® are registered trademarks of Fluent Inc.

For more information, contact:

Joanne Bernard Fluent Inc. 10 Cavendish Court Lebanon, NH 03766 (603) 643-2600 Ext. 669 jxb@fluent.com