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Simpleware signs up Vangest Group as their reseller in Portugal and Spain

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Simpleware Ltd., the world leader in image-based meshing software, has signed a reseller agreement with Vangest Group, a provider of most advanced solutions in project, development and manufacturing.

Simpleware develops world-leading mesh generation software for the conversion of 3D scan data into high-quality computational models for FEA, CFD, CAD and Rapid Prototyping. Unlike other approaches, Simpleware provides complete software solutions from importing 3D images through to direct export to commercial FEA and CFD solvers including: ABAQUS, ANSYS, COMSOL, FLUENT, MSC, etc.

Why not use FDM in solid mechanics?

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Finite Difference Method (FDM) and the related techniques such as FVM, are often found put to great use in fluid mechanics. See any simulation showing not only streamlines but also vortex shedding, turbulent mixing, etc.

Simpleware signs up reseller in China

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Simpleware Ltd., the world leader in image-based meshing software, has signed an agreement with Gaitech International Ltd. to resell the Simpleware suite of software products in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.

Simpleware software offers an advanced solution to problems that were previously intractable due to the complexity in geometry reconstruction. Simpleware's technology has opened up numerical analysis (CFD and FEA) to a variety of applications, including biomedical engineering, material characterisation and industrial reverse engineering.

A new type of bubble raft--challenge for clever students

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17 years ago, while a postdoc at IBM meant to be doing other things, I thought about the following. Then recently I visited Ali Argon at MIT, and we discussed conventional bubble rafts and how useful they had been in studies of some problems in mechanics...such as of defects and so on.

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