Wireless Electronics OEM Chooses ALGOR's New Forced Convection Capability for Coupled Fluid/Solid Heat Transfer

    PITTSBURGH--Jan. 9, 2002--ALGOR, Inc., a leading maker of software for mechanical engineers, today announced the addition of a forced convection heat transfer capability to its steady-state heat transfer analysis products. This capability enables engineers to consider the effects of fluid flow when solving for temperature distribution by performing a fluid flow analysis and then considering the velocity results as part of a direct convection load in a heat transfer analysis. The heat transfer results specify temperature distribution for both the fluid and solid components in systems such as fan- or water-cooled CPUs and heat exchangers.
    "Engineers performing steady-state heat transfer analysis in ALGOR can now simply click on a dialog box to include fluid convection effects and provide the location of fluid velocity results during setup to yield forced convection heat transfer results," said Michael L. Bussler, president of Pittsburgh-based ALGOR, Inc. "This easy method of predicting how flow will affect temperature distribution in both fluid and solid components is especially useful to engineers analyzing systems that require fans or water for cooling and those that transport molten metal or liquefied plastic or rubber, all of which operate at extremely high temperatures."
    "As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of wireless communications equipment, we need to know what fluid flow velocity is necessary within enclosures to cool the electronics," said Grant South, Mechanical Engineering Manager for Wytec in Santa Clara, California. "We can use ALGOR's forced convection heat transfer to determine what level of fluid flow - like the fan-forced airflow that cools a computer - will produce the desired internal temperature distribution and prevent electronic components from overheating and failing."
    ALGOR customers with current software upgrade subscriptions for its thermal FEA products can receive the new forced convection heat transfer capability at no charge by requesting this latest release. ALGOR software is available for PC workstations running Windows NT, Me, 95, 98, 2000 or XP.
    ALGOR has been developing FEA and mechanical simulation software for PCs since 1984 and data exchange with CAD systems since 1985. ALGOR serves over 20,000 engineers in over 60 countries in organizations such as DuPont, Entergy Operations, Inc., General Motors, NASA, Naval Surface Warfare Center and Yale University. ALGOR has partnered with other leading mechanical engineering software companies to offer data interchange with products from ANSYS, Inc. ; Autodesk, Inc. ; CADKEY Corporation; MSC.Software Corporation ; Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC); Structural Dynamics Research Corporation; UGS ; SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. company; and others. ALGOR also offers educational support and customer service that includes the use of Internet audio/video technology for distance learning and free, live software demonstrations.

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