ESI Group announces new parallel version of PAM-FLOW

 Troy 02 Dec 99 ESI Group released the Massively Parallel version of PAM-FLOW. PAM-FLOW is a fully integrated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software able to solve the most complex fluid flow problems, such as turbulent flows around or inside vehicles, and rotating flows in turbomachinery. A distributed memory parallel version is available on SGI O2000, HP K/V/N class, IBM Power3 servers and Fujitsu VX/VPP supercomputers. There are also versions for work stations and shared memory parallel machines.

PAM-FLOW has consistently demonstrated "wind tunnel test level" of accuracy for drag and lift predictions of vehicles. After an intensive benchmark, the Japanese Society of Automotive (JSAE) acknowledged PAM-FLOW as the most accurate and efficient external aerodynamics software in the automotive market.

Now with the availability of the Distributed Memory Parallel version of PAM-FLOW, this level performance is available for most UNIX based design environments. Extremely fast turnaround times can be achieved on 8 to 16 node workstation networks.

PAM-FLOW Market Computational Fluid Dynamics is widely used by leading corporations worldwide, such as Boeing, General Motors, Alstom in France or Ebara in Japan.

Automotive manufacturers utilize PAM-FLOW for internal and external aerodynamics simulations as well as aero-acoustics. From the drag coefficient of a car to the coolant flow in a cylinder head cooling block, PAM-FLOW consistently predicts the results with a high degree of accuracy.

Railway manufacturers use PAM-FLOW to improve passenger comfort in subways and train through the optimization of air conditioning system design.

Aerospace manufacturers benefit from PAM-FLOW to study aerodynamic performances of airplanes, rockets, and missiles including the interactions between them. Combined with PAM-SHOCK, it has been successfully used to predict the effects of explosions on an aircraft.

Turbomachinery manufacturers predict accurately the performances of their equipment under real life condition, including the simulation of the unsteady behavior of rotating machines.

Medical equipment manufacturers simulate biomedical flows through arteries to study new heart valve prosthesis.

PAM-FLOW is available on UNIX workstations and servers from Compaq/DEC, HP, IBM, SGI, and Sun, as well as major supercomputers from Cray, Fujitsu, and NEC.

Shared Memory Parallel version is available on SGI O2000, HP K/V/N class, IBM, DEC servers and NEC SX-4/SX-5 supercomputers.

Distributed Memory Parallel version is available on SGI O2000, HP K/V/N class, IBM Power3 servers and Fujitsu VX/VPP supercomputers.

 

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