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PHOENICS ON-LINE: CFD VIA THE INTERNET
13 January 2007 - NAFEMS
| CHAM has expanded its interactive on-line CFD service first prototyped in October 2003. Cheap, efficient and easy-to-use PHOENICS On-Line provides unrestricted and immediate access to powerful CFD modelling software, at the click of a button. |
PHOENICS is widely used by both industrial and research organisations for modelling processes involving fluid flow, heat or mass transfer, chemical reaction and/or combustion occurring within engineering equipment or the environment. The industrial applications for PHOENICS are widespread, from simulating internal and external air-flows, HVAC, thermal comfort and fire and smoke hazards in and around buildings, to complex multi-phase reacting flows needed within the chemical, process and power-generation industries. If it flows, PHOENICS can model it! PHOENICS On-Line has been introduced as an alternative or supplement to standard licensing arrangements. Customers simply purchase an account to access PHOENICS for unlimited, all-inclusive, use during any given calendar month using a single payment by credit card. Ideal for customers wishing to make short-term or project-based use of the code, or for those wish to gain access from multiple locations. From a single portal, clients can gain access to PHOENICS from wherever they are in the world, perhaps initiating a case from the UK and viewing the results in the USA. PHOENICS On-Line offers the user unlimited flexibility, without tying up computer resources, purchased on a need-to-use basis. A Look/Learn/Try button offers users free connection to investigate tutorial and applications examples using the PHOENICS Commander before any commitment to use the service is required. Furthermore, CHAM will create individual examples and undertake on-line interactive demonstrations of cases specified by prospective clients, akin to a virtual sales office. These examples are then left on-line for the customer to evaluate, modify and extend at his/her leisure. When authorised so to do, CHAM's Support Team can gain access to client cases to provide advice and support, "live" and interactive. "PHOENICS On-Line" has transformed the way we do business," says Peter Spalding, CHAM's Sales Manager. "Now CHAM and its agents can reach across the globe to even remote areas to bring PHOENICS to the desk-top of prospective users. Effectively, our sales and support personnel can be with a customer in Iceland one moment, and India the next. From a customer viewpoint, PHOENICS is only ever one click away."
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About: NAFEMS
NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques. There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used. Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues. As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely: "To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology" In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987. After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990. The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision. Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members. |
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