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The power generation CFD market is one of the most mature in Germany, covering everything from boiler, burner, and turbomachinery manufacturing to power plants of all types. In addition, Germany has a very sophisticated level of public environmental awareness that has resulted in some very stringent pollution abatement legislation, and a governmental drive for sustainable energy sources like wind, biomass, and fuel cells in the near future.

Members of the 2003 Power, Environmental, and HVAC team are, from left to right: Dr. Wolfgang Timm, Elmar Schneeloch, Stefan Braun, Michael Adler, Ingo Cremer (Team Leader), and Dr. Ulrich Schmidt

Fluent is the leading CFD supplier to the Power Industry in the world, with state-of-the-art models for combustion and heat transfer, and an experienced technical support team in Darmstadt. German power industry users want to increase process and equipment efficiencies to reduce costs, and to address pollution restrictions for NOx, CO, soot, and heavy metal levels in off-gases and power plant wastes. Fuel cell development is at the leading edge of power generation R&D, and CFD is helping speed up this technological development. In the field of renewable energy, wind power generators are using CFD extensively for blade design and wind farm mapping studies. German companies are increasingly working to develop biomass furnaces and incinerators as well.

Pressure contours on the buildings of Terminal 1 at the Frankfurt Airport in northeast wind conditions; simulation done by Fluent Deutschland

Contours of predicted velocity magnitude at selected axial and radial planes, Courtesy of KSB Aktiengesellschaft

In the building industry, fire and safety hazard evaluations are now customary, and CFD simulations are frequently used during the design stage to maximize the safety of occupants during a fire and minimize the possibility of expensive litigation down the line. In addition to fire analyses, CFD is used to design the airflow in many newly constructed German buildings to ensure occupant comfort for a range of exterior weather conditions. Equipment designers in the HVAC and electronics industries also use CFD to improve designs for enhanced performance in operation. Fluent products and the support staff at Fluent Deutschland are wellequipped to meet client needs in all of these important application areas.

"CFD software from Fluent has become an integral part of our design services, due to the increased planning security that simulations make possible." Dr. Peter Vogel, Gebaude-Technik-Dresden GmbH

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