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FEA and structural analysis software
News Release from: Algor | Subject: Sparse solver technology
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2002
Sparse solver technology speeds analysis
software
New fast solvers from Algor for linear static stress and steady-state heat transfer analyses use sparse solver technology to provide significantly faster processing times.
New fast solvers from Algor for linear static stress and steady-state heat transfer analyses use sparse solver technology to provide significantly faster processing times This speed is especially important when considering stress in any assembly model, such as a large CAD model, or performing a heat transfer analysis involving body-to-body radiation or forced convection
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With the new solvers, engineers can analyse larger models in less time and shorten the entire design process", said Michael L Bussler, president of Pittsburgh-based Algor.
"Through these performance gains, engineers can realise significant increases in productivity".
In a recent Algor study, engineers performed linear static stress analyses to compare the new fast solver with the previous, more traditional type of solver.
This comparison showed that the new sparse solver completed 186,777 equations in about 7min, more than 430 times faster than the approximately 3,011min it took the traditional solver to complete the same number of equations.
The new solver calculated nearly one million equations in just under 8h.
"This new solver technology provides at least five times more analysis productivity than the previous solver, which is especially noticeable in analyses of large CAD assemblies", said Julian Holt, a mechanical engineering consultant with CADFEM in Leicestershire, UK.
"I look forward to its implementation throughout Algor's entire FEA and MES software product line in the first quarter of 2002".
Customers with current software upgrade subscriptions can receive the new sparse solver technology at no charge by requesting the latest updates for the linear static stress and steady-state heat transfer products.
The software is available for PC workstations running Windows NT, Me, 98, 2000 or XP.
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