Fluent Incorporated and Enductive Solutions Partner

CFD Market Leader Complements Growing List of CAE Collaborators

Lebanon, New Hampshire, September 18, 2001 - Fluent Inc. and Enductive Solutions announced today that Fluent has joined Enductive's Solution Alliance Partnership program. As a Solution Alliance Partner, Fluent will contribute its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology and know-how to custom-built CAE solutions developed by Enductive. Clients of Enductive are seeking to optimize their CAE process. Enductive helps them to achieve this goal by integrating their software tools and processes.

"We like to see our flow modeling tools being utilized in a comprehensive CAE context," says Fluent's Director of Third Party Relations, Barbara Hutchings. "Enductive creates solutions for its clients that integrates CFD and a whole variety of other analysis tools in an environment that makes it easy for engineers to succeed. We think it will lead to greater use and understanding of CFD in the CAE world, and ultimately to Enductive's clients achieving maximum value for their CAE investment.

As CAE has proven its value and flourished, the available tools and practices that must be integrated have multiplied.

"Today's engineering and design teams are faced with not only learning and using many unrelated software tools, but are also being asked to continually design more, faster, and better, all the while integrating a myriad of software tools into their design and analysis process. This is not the engineer's core competency, and distracts them away from the central mission of product design. That's where we come in," says Enductive President Phillip Raymond. "We put the pieces together so CAE is made easier, and we deliver it under a customized interface so it speaks the language of those who are using it."

Enductive's business model positions them as the developers and facilitators of customized CAE solutions. Often, these solutions involve specifying new technology or optimizing existing technology. This is where the partners from its Solution Alliance Partnership play an important role. "Our partners come from both the hardware and the software side," says Raymond. "We look for well-established players with solid products and a reputation for innovation. Fluent certainly fits into this category, and will be contributing as a provider of general-purpose CFD software. We also have partners who specialize in structural analysis, CAD, optimization, and other technologies, as well as major hardware providers. Combining our expertise and strengths with the Fluent technology will enable us to implement the solutions and other service offerings far faster than any company could do alone."

About Enductive Solutions

Enductive Solutions (www.enductive.com) has the mission of helping its clients use computer-aided engineering (CAE) in the smartest way possible, thus shortening their product development cycles, decreasing time-to-market, and reducing costs overall. Partnering with the client, they create a solution approach, which focuses on applicability, simplicity, ease-of-use, and integration. The approach considers the client's internal expertise, existing design software, associated databases, and overall design process. The deliverable is often a customized graphical user interface (GUI), which ties together all the design components and the specific tools and hardware in the process, so that time is saved, tedium is reduced, and integration is achieved. The outcome is a custom, focused, customer-tuned CAE process, which is ideally suited to the client. The firm makes use of a large Solution Alliance Partner network to aid in fast implementation of client solutions. It is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, and has additional offices in Concord, New Hampshire. It is a member of the Aavid Thermal Technologies family of companies.

About Fluent Inc.

Fluent Inc. is the world leader in the rapidly growing field of computerized design and simulation software. Its software is used to predict fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction, and related phenomena. Fluent's software products and services help engineers with detailed product development, design optimization, scale-up, and retrofitting. The 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 headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices throughout the United States. Its European headquarters are located in Sheffield, England with additional offices in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Sweden. Its Asian headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan. Fluent's software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and most European countries.

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Correa
Fluent Inc.
10 Cavendish Court
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 643-2600 Ext. 668
jrc@fluent.com