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by Lisa Mesaros, PhD, Automotive Industry Team Leader

Welcome to our first issue of Automotive CFD News. We'll be sending you this electronic news update on a regular basis. Its purpose is to keep you updated with the latest information on Fluent software, training, and support for automotive users specifically. We intend it to be short, easy-to-digest and useful. Feel free to contact me with feedback or story ideas, lmm@fluent.com

We're happy to report that the Ann Arbor office expansion is now complete. Along with doubling our office space and adding several new staff members, we have also added a modern training facility which is outfitted with high performance HP workstations. This year, 10 scheduled introductory training sessions will be held in Ann Arbor. This local training capability will help you keep your travel costs down, and hopefully enable you to train more engineers to use FLUENT. The large number of courses offered gives you flexibility to work training into the best times during the year for your work cycle.

Tiberiu Barbat and Pepi Maksimovic join the Auto Support Staff.

Tibe joined us in October after finishing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo. His Doctoral research contained theoretical, computational and experimental studies on the dynamics of gas bubbles under acoustic forcing. Tibe is originally from Romania and enjoys playing tennis and bridge. You can reach Tibe at tib@fluent.com.

Pepi just joined the Auto Team in March. Pepi received her PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan where she conducted a study on the dynamics of liquid breakup processes.  Prior to joining Fluent, Pepi spent two years at Allied Signal, using Fluent for the design of pneumatic control elements.  Pepi is originally from Yugoslavia and enjoys the outdoors, nature and art in her spare time. Pepi can be reached at prm@fluent.com

Jeff Benko has been with Fluent since  May 1998. Jeff obtained a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan (Go BLUE!).  Jeff also spent a number of years in the doctoral program at UofM doing research in the area of body-fitted cartesian algorithms.  Jeff is originally from Dayton, Ohio.  In his spare time he enjoys running, creating web applications and finishing up his dissertation.  Jeff can be reached at rjb@fluent.com

Paul Colucci has been with Fluent since 1997.  Paul received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of NY at Buffalo.  He is originally from  Long Island, NY and in his spare time, Paul enjoys flying both real and model aircraft, boating, outdoor activities, and playing guitar. You can reach Paul at pjc@fluent.com

Hamid Ghazialam, joined Fluent June 1999. Hamid is originally from Lugar, Afghanistan and obtained an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.  Prior to joining the Automotive Team at Fluent, Hamid was an analyst using FLUENT for climate control design.  For fun, Hamid likes to play basketball, table tennis, read, paint, jog in the park (not on those machines!), and weight lifting.  You can reach Hamid at  hsg@fluent.com

Stewart Featherstone has joined us as Technical Sales Engineer. Stewart relocated to the Ann Arbor office after spending 4 years at Fluent Europe in Sheffield, UK. Stewart was originally born in North Yorkshire and obtained his BS at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. In his free time Stewart enjoys music, films and all types of sports particularly Soccer. He also loves to travel , meet new people, sample different food, cultures etc. and socializing with friends after a hard days work in the office. sf@fluent.com

Greetings! I am Kishor Khankari, CFD consultant to the automotive industry. I am located in our Ann Arbor office, and I lead our consulting efforts in the automotive arena. 

We provide a wide range of consulting services including:

- Provision of CPU time on our high-end computing machines

- Expert mesh generation 

- Expert advice on engineering analysis and CFD solutions

- Problem set-up, solution, and post-processing of CFD results

- Expert interpretation and analysis of CFD results

- Development of advanced numerical models and their implementation through User Defined Function (UDFs) in the general-purpose FLUENT code

- Development of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for the new and existing numerical models.

- A complete turnkey project involving all of the above services. 

Because I am local to you, I can easily make frequent, prompt site visits to understand your problems through face-to-face meetings. Call me for a confidential discussion, or to arrange a meeting: 734-213-6821x 22 or at kha@fluent.com.

Each month, we'll spotlight some novel uses for CFD - automotive related, or otherwise. You never know where the next inspiration will come from! 

Send your request to:

 

Fluent Inc. 

220 E. Huron, Suite 470 

Ann Arbor, MI 48103 

Phone: 734-213-6821 x 0

Fax:     734-213-0147 

lmm@fluent.com 

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