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Fluent Inc. Announces Plastics Database Interface

Fluent's POLYFLOW Code Interface with CAMPUS Delivers Industry's Most Comprehensive Plastics Database

Lebanon, NH, USA/Aachen, Germany-September 1, 2000-Fluent Inc., the leading provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH, announce the availability of a database interface between Fluent's POLYFLOW CFD code and M-Base's CAMPUS Merge Program (MCBase). This database interface will provide faster, seamless, computer-aided engineering for design and analysis of polymer manufacturing processes.

The Most Comprehensive Database Available

Users can export material properties for flow simulation directly into POLYFLOW via the new interface. The current CAMPUS database makes the properties of about 6000 materials available, with more planned for inclusion in later releases. This gives users the advantage of direct access to the world's leading plastics information system -- ensuring high quality and comparable data based on international standards. In addition, this eliminates the need for users to manually convert material data.

According to M-Base Managing Director Dr. -Ing. Erwin Baur, "Distribution of high quality material data via CAMPUS has become an industrial standard in the plastics industry. So far, the data is mainly used for material selection and individual evaluations during the design process. The next logical step, which is requested by our users, is the direct link between the material database and engineering software. This interface to POLYFLOW is a major step toward the integration of CAMPUS in the computer aided engineering environment," Baur stated.

According to POLYFLOW Products Market Manager Thierry Marchal, "Access to CAMPUS's large material database will greatly simplify the work of our users by avoiding the need to measure numerous experimental data. In addition, the quality of the numerical results will be improved because more specifics of the users' plastics will be taken into account," Marchal concluded.

POLYFLOW is a fully interactive software, which models the flow of fluids in industrial processes. It's ease of use makes it the ideal tool to understand, modify, and improve a variety of industrial processes, such as extrusion and coextrusion, internal flow, fiber spinning, blow molding/thermoforming, film casting, screw design, laminar mixing, and glass applications with a special expertise in viscoelasticity.

CAMPUS, which stands for Computer Aided Material Preselection by Uniform Standards, is the internationally reputed database software for plastic materials. The plastics properties catalogue includes single-point data, multi-point data, processing data, and product description texts. Users can also select plastic products for specific applications by using easy query options.

About Fluent and Polyflow

Fluent Inc. is a world leader in the rapidly growing field of computerized design and simulation software. Fluent's software is used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction, and related phenomena. Fluent's software products and services help engineers in leading corporations worldwide with detailed product development, design optimization, trouble shooting, scale-up and retrofitting. Fluent's software significantly reduces engineering cost, while improving the final design of products in applications ranging from design of electronic components and systems to automotive engineering, and from combustion system design to process plant troubleshooting.

Fluent's corporate headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Fluent's European headquarters are located in Sheffield, England, with local offices in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. Fluent's CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and most European countries.

Fluent is a subsidiary of Aavid Thermal Technologies Inc. Additional information on Fluent's products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.fluent.com or by e-mailing info@fluent.com. More information on Aavid Thermal Technologies is available at http://www.aavid.com.

Polyflow S.A., a subsidiary of Fluent, is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and maintains sales and technical support offices in Lebanon, New Hampshire (USA), Tokyo, and Seoul. POLYFLOW leads the field in simulations of complex materials processing in industrial flows where viscous and viscoelastic flows play a major role. This is typical of the polymer, glass, and food processing industries as well as other industries processing complex rheology fluids. POLYFLOW is oriented toward industrial applications and is committed to providing value-added solutions to the design and understanding of the processes. POLYFLOW is used worldwide by leading companies for process and product development and for design optimization. More information on POLYFLOW is available at http://www.fluent.com/software/polyflow.

About M-Base Engineering + Software

M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH's corporate headquarters are located in Aachen, Germany. M-Base is a leading software supplier for the plastics industry with a strong focus on material databases and information systems. More information on M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH is available at http://www.m-base.de. More information on CAMPUS is available at http://www.campusplastics.com.

For more information contact:

Thierry Marchal
Products Market Manager
Fluent Inc.
10 Cavendish Court
Lebanon, NH USA
Tel: +1 603 643 2600
Fax: +1 603 643 3967

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This gives users the advantage of direct access to the world's leading plastics information system -- ensuring high quality and comparable data based on international standards. In addition, this eliminates the need for users to manually convert material data. According to M-Base Managing Director Dr. -Ing. Erwin Baur, "Distribution of high quality material data via CAMPUS has become an industrial standard in the plastics industry. So far, the data is mainly used for material selection and individual evaluations during the design process. The next logical step, which is requested by our users, is the direct link between the material database and engineering software. This interface to POLYFLOW is a major step toward the integration of CAMPUS in the computer aided engineering environment," Baur stated. According to POLYFLOW Products Market Manager Thierry Marchal, "Access to CAMPUS's large material database will greatly simplify the work of our users by avoiding the need to measure numerous experimental data. In addition, the quality of the numerical results will be improved because more specifics of the users' plastics will be taken into account," Marchal concluded. POLYFLOW is a fully interactive software, which models the flow of fluids in industrial processes. It's ease of use makes it the ideal tool to understand, modify, and improve a variety of industrial processes, such as extrusion and coextrusion, internal flow, fiber spinning, blow molding/thermoforming, film casting, screw design, laminar mixing, and glass applications with a special expertise in viscoelasticity. CAMPUS, which stands for Computer Aided Material Preselection by Uniform Standards, is the internationally reputed database software for plastic materials. The plastics properties catalogue includes single-point data, multi-point data, processing data, and product description texts. Users can also select plastic products for specific applications by using easy query options. About Fluent and Polyflow Fluent Inc. is a world leader in the rapidly growing field of computerized design and simulation software. Fluent's software is used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction, and related phenomena. Fluent's software products and services help engineers in leading corporations worldwide with detailed product development, design optimization, trouble shooting, scale-up and retrofitting. Fluent's software significantly reduces engineering cost, while improving the final design of products in applications ranging from design of electronic components and systems to automotive engineering, and from combustion system design to process plant troubleshooting. Fluent's corporate headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Fluent's European headquarters are located in Sheffield, England, with local offices in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. Fluent's CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and most European countries. Fluent is a subsidiary of Aavid Thermal Technologies Inc. Additional information on Fluent's products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.fluent.com or by e-mailing info@fluent.com. More information on Aavid Thermal Technologies is available at http://www.aavid.com. Polyflow S.A., a subsidiary of Fluent, is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and maintains sales and technical support offices in Lebanon, New Hampshire (USA), Tokyo, and Seoul. POLYFLOW leads the field in simulations of complex materials processing in industrial flows where viscous and viscoelastic flows play a major role. This is typical of the polymer, glass, and food processing industries as well as other industries processing complex rheology fluids. POLYFLOW is oriented toward industrial applications and is committed to providing value-added solutions to the design and understanding of the processes. POLYFLOW is used worldwide by leading companies for process and product development and for design optimization. More information on POLYFLOW is available at http://www.fluent.com/software/polyflow. About M-Base Engineering + Software M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH's corporate headquarters are located in Aachen, Germany. M-Base is a leading software supplier for the plastics industry with a strong focus on material databases and information systems. More information on M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH is available at http://www.m-base.de. More information on CAMPUS is available at http://www.campusplastics.com. For more information contact: Thierry Marchal Products Market Manager Fluent Inc. 10 Cavendish Court Lebanon, NH USA Tel: +1 603 643 2600 Fax: +1 603 643 3967