Simulation/Modeling Tools

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In a message dated 4/14/99 8:47:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
memvive at globetrotter.qc.ca writes:

<< David Rhoads wrote:
 > 
 > Help ...
 > 
 > I'm looking for some additional information to wrap up a term paper that
 > I'm writing.  What I need is info/comments on various
 > modeling/simluation languages/tools
 
 The Pro/Eng (Pro/Engineer) package is indeed the most complete one I
 have seen with mechanical, heat transfer and motion simulations. 
 
 Hope this helps,
 -- 
 Helene V. >>

I beg to differ. ProE is a cumbersome package. If you want to use what the 
big boys use, look to SDRC IDEAS and Fluent Rampant for design and 
Computational Fluid Dynamics respectively. This is what people like Ford, 
Ilmor and others of that caliber use. The company (an international 
aerodynamics research and consulting firm) where I was in charge of design of 
gaging and database development spent a great deal of time evaluating 
packages. We talked to a number of companies who had IDEAS and ProE 
experience and they were fairly unanimous in their recommendation for design 
and analysis. Fluent is the world leader in CFD for virtually every kind of 
fluids flow analysis as well as thermal and combustion analysis. IDEAS was 
recommended by them as a tool for preprocessing the data for their analysis 
suite. 
Talk to these people. You will find that they are both companies with strong 
educational ties.
Fred