New Body-to-Body Radiation Capability Enhances Algor's Heat Transfer Analysis Software
PITTSBURGH--Jan. 29, 2001--ALGOR, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers today announced the addition of body-to-body radiation analysis capabilities to its heat transfer products for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME."The addition of body-to-body radiation capabilities enables engineers to simulate a wider range of thermal scenarios within multi-body environments," said Michael Bussler, president and CEO of ALGOR, Inc. "This capability will especially benefit engineers in the industrial and manufacturing fields where multi-body radiation scenarios such as furnace applications are common."
Supporting the body-to-body radiation capability is an automatic view factor calculator to control the extent to which the different bodies interact.
This release of ALGOR's heat transfer software also includes:
| -- | enhanced application of surface-based, steady-state loads such as convection, radiation and heat flux to enable engineers to apply multiple loads on more than one surface of any element and thus focus on engineering rather than modeling; |
| -- | an added capability to calculate and display heat flux and heat flow for transient analyses; and |
| -- | a restart capability for transient analyses that enables engineers to extend the length of a completed analysis. |
ALGOR has been a leader in the engineering software industry since introducing FEA for PCs in 1984 and interfacing with CAD systems in 1985. The company provides innovative, affordable and easy-to-use software products that have enabled 20,000 engineers in 60 countries to create safe, efficient, cost-effective designs. ALGOR also offers superior educational support and customer service that includes the use of state-of-the-art Internet audio/video technology for "Web Courses," which provide step-by-step software instruction, and free public "Webcasts" for live software demonstrations.
ALGOR's family of products features Mechanical Event Simulation software for FEA-based motion and stress analysis, InCAD technology to seamlessly capture exact CAD geometry from popular CAD systems and extensive multiphysics capabilities. The company offers linear and nonlinear stress, vibration, heat transfer, electrostatic, fluid flow, composite materials and piping systems analysis tools. ALGOR's software interchanges data with products from ANSYS, Inc. , Autodesk, Inc. , CADKEY Corporation, MSC.Software Corporation , Parametric Technology Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Unigraphics Solutions, Inc. , SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, and others.
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