Airpak software used by Singapore's Collaborative One-Stop Virtual Engineering Services (COVES) system for airflow modeling of factory indoor environments
March 4, 2002, Lebanon, New Hampshire…Fluent Inc., the world's leading CFD software provider, announces that Fluent's Airpak, a building design tool software package focused specifically on HVAC systems, will be used by Singapore's Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Occupational Health Department of the Ministry of Manpower to develop and trial a system called COVES (Collaborative One-Stop Virtual Engineering Simulations). COVES will improve the design of industrial buildings and be part of the streamlined web-based process for obtaining permits and certificates of approval. The two organizations have been awarded a total of 700,000 SGD by The Enterprise Challenge Unit of the Prime Minister's Office to develop the COVES system.
Airpak is one of the simulation tools being utilized by COVES for three-dimensional simulation and visualization of the ventilation and dispersion of airborne contaminants and spills in buildings.
COVES (www.coves-online.com)is a broadband internet portal offering a single point of contact, allowing engineering firms, building owners, and government agencies to collaborate and tackle Environmental, Occupational Health, Fire Safety and Emergency Response Planning issues during the design stage of buildings. This would be achieved via the use of simulation software, supporting hardware and required human expertise to create an engineering consultancy over the Internet. It also provides automatic project management services to smooth the various inter-agency processes required for building certifications.
At present, prescriptive building codes have limits in ensuring safe air quality and therefore, performance-based regulations are becoming more common. Airflow modeling offers the capability to predict the exposure levels in a factory, fire and smoke movement, and environmental impacts early in the design stage. If hazards and problems were identified early during the design, control measures can be put in place more effectively and economically. Otherwise, it would lead to retrofitting of the completed building to satisfy regulations, which then lead to increased cost and delayed completion.
Pricing and Availability
Airpak is available on UNIX, NT, and Linux platforms, and license fees are determined by the number of processes a user requires. Annual license fees include unlimited technical support.
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 prediction of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the world and in almost every manufacturing industry. Using Fluent's software, product development, design and research engineers build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, which helps them to optimize, troubleshoot, scale-up, and retrofit. Use of CFD software reduces time-to-market by reducing the need for costly physical testing and prototyping.
Fluent's corporate headquarters are located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Fluent's European headquarters are located in Sheffield, England, with local offices in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. Fluent's Asia Pacific headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. 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.
Fluent is a subsidiary of Aavid Thermal Technologies Inc. Additional information on Fluent's products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.fluent.com or by e-mailing info@fluent.com. More information on Aavid Thermal Technologies is available at www.aavid.com.
About IHPC
The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) is one of the research institutes in Singapore supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). IHPC develops and promotes the application of high performance computing (HPC) technologies and provides computer intensive resources and services to industry. It strives to elevate the discovery process to higher domains of science and engineering through the use of HPC technologies.
IHPC focuses on upstream, industry-inspired research in engineering-based areas such as chemistry, computational mechanics, electrical computer aided engineering (ECAE), electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, large-scale simulations, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and precision engineering as well as non-engineering areas such as computational finance and data-mining for intelligent business solutions and visualization of complex data. In addition to commercial and industry-related research, IHPC also applies HPC technology in defence-related areas such as underwater shock, flow acoustics interaction, explosion bubble dynamics and fluid-structure interactive modeling and simulation. More information about the Institute can be found at http://www.ihpc.nus.edu.sg.
Airpak is a trademark of Fluent Inc., and is a joint development of Fluent Inc. and ICEM-CFD Engineering.
For more information, contact:
Jennifer Correa
Fluent Inc.
10 Cavendish Court
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 643-2600 Ext. 668
jrc@fluent.com