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News Release from: ACRi | Subject: CFDStudio/Answer v5.5
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 October 2002
Integrated development environment for
CFD
CFDStudio/Answer v5.5 is the new release of the Answer computational fluid dynamics software tool developed by ACRi.
CFDStudio/Answer v5.5 is the new release of the Answer computational fluid dynamics software tool developed by ACRi The general purpose Navier-Stokes solver, Answer, now comes bundled with CFDStudio, the integrated development environment for CFD applications
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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CFDStudio is the new integrated development environment (IDE) developed by ACRi, for use in CFD problem setup, runtime and postprocessing.
In technical terms, CFDStudio is a "wysiwyg" (what you see is what you get) type of development environment for CFD applications.
That is, as the user sets up a CFD problem, there is never a blind spot.
Users can always visualise what type of boundary conditions they are specifying, and to what region.
Any specification provided can be viewed at a later time.
The entire development environment is built on a "point-and-click" approach, minimising the guesswork.
The problem setup (specification of geometry, initial and boundary conditions, sources, sinks, fluid properties, solution and output options etc), initiation and graphical representation of CFD solution, as well as the postprocessing of the results (including contours, vectors, slices etc) are all done in the CFDStudio environment, eliminating the need for 3rd party software, and flattening the learning curve even for the most novice CFD software user.
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