Demonstrations will showcase the PLM benefits of this first fully- embedded CFD solution for CATIA V5

October 5, 2005, Darmstadt, Germany

Fluent, the worldwide leader in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software and services, will demonstrate its new CFD software "FLUENT for CATIA V5" to attendees at the European CATIA Forum (ECF) 2005 and at upcoming Fluent European Users Meetings 2005.

The initial beta-release of FLUENT for CATIA V5 will be demonstrated at ECF on October 4 - 6 th in Frankfurt, Germany. Additional demonstrations will be made at the Fluent European Users Meetings on October 13 (Paris, France), and October 19 (Bad Nauheim, Germany), where Fluent and Dassault Systèmes will jointly present the benefits of integrated analysis in the PLM environment.

"We are excited to be at the customer beta-release phase of the first fully embedded CFD solution for CATIA V5," says Laurent Collonge, Product Manager of FLUENT for CATIA V5. "Customers are responding very positively to the high level of integration, ease of use and the technology advances for CFD introduced in CATIA V5, thanks to the intense collaboration between Dassault Systèmes and Fluent teams. The excellent inputs from our customer advisor group are helping us to ensure that this first release will truly meet market needs."

As a partner in the Dassault Systèmes Software Community Program, Fluent is uniquely positioned to provide its leading CFD technology within the V5 PLM environment . "We want to make it easier for our customers to predict product performance," said Severin Lafranchi, Dassault Systemes' R&D Director for CATIA Simulation. "The open SIMULIA scientific platform, based on CAA V5 architecture, enables focused applications like FLUENT to be used much earlier in the engineering process by many more engineers. Fluent has created a fully PLM-integrated CFD solution that reveals the effects of fluid dynamics during product design. The result will be better performing, more cost effective products in less time. We are excited to team with Fluent, among the industry leaders in CFD, to bring this unique and innovative product to market."

FLUENT for CATIA combines the worlds most widely used and powerful CFD code, FLUENT 6.2, with the leading CATIA V5 PLM software environment from Dassault Systèmes. Fully associative to the PLM data structures, FLUENT for CATIA provides fluid flow analysis in the CATIA working environment and is a dramatic step forward for the use of CFD in the design process. It will allow engineers, especially in the automotive and aerospace industries, to achieve significant product design improvements and cost savings. The software will help engineers test conceptual designs at the earliest possible stages of the product development cycle in a PLM workflow environment. The unified design and analysis process provided by FLUENT for CATIA leads to improved product quality, faster time to market, and reductions in large downstream manufacturing costs.

The FLUENT for CATIA product provides automated tools for geometry conditioning, flow volume creation, meshing, the CFD solution process, and report generation. The product exposes the CFD analysis process within the familiar environment of the CATIA interface. FLUENT for CATIA is fully upwardly compatible with the vast array of turbulence, physics, chemistry, and multiphase models in FLUENT V6.2. FLUENT for CATIA V1.0 will handle steady state, single-phase, laminar and turbulent non-reacting flows, with a range of heat transfer options for incompressible or mildly compressible flow physics. The software will therefore model flows in ducts, pipes and manifolds, external aerodynamics, heat exchangers and HVAC systems, architectural designs and cabin ventilation models, as well as engine cooling and automotive powertrain applications.

The FLUENT for CATIA V5 beta-version is available to customers wishing to test it and anticipate its deployment. The software is owned, supported and managed by Fluent Inc.

2005 European CATIA Forum:
http://www.ecforum.com

Fluent European Users Meetings:
http://www.fluent.com/services/technical_support/ugm/

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, flow-induced noise 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. FLUENT is used extensively in the automotive industry worldwide by the vast majority of OEM's and their suppliers. Using Fluent's software, 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, Japan, China 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.

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