Simulation/Modeling Tools

[H Villemure]

How much $$$?
Do you own a copy yourself?

FHPREMACH at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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

-- 
Helene V.
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