Month: October 2012

Windsor, UK and Yokohama, Japan, 29th October 2012

ICON and IDAJ, two of the world’s leading independent service providers and system integrators of Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) processes, are pleased to announce they have signed a global partnership and strategic distribution agreement.

From 1st March 2013, IDAJ, one of the largest and most successful CAE/CFD sales, services, and support organisations in the Far East, will distribute, support and jointly develop ICON’s industry-focussed CFD processes including the ICON FOAMpro family of supported technologies.

ICON have supplied high value-add, fully supported CFD-driven design technologies to a variety of industries worldwide, including automotive, aerospace, oil, gas and process sectors since 1992 and hence has been chosen by IDAJ for this long-standing leadership in the support of open source CFD technology for industry. IDAJ will support the territories of Japan, China (including Hong Kong), South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines.

Chingzou Hsu, President of IDAJ Co. Ltd said “We are delighted to be working with ICON in their quest to provide worldwide industry-sectors with robust, cost-effective CFD processes and related productivity and optimization technologies.”

Simon Weston, Managing Director at ICON, speaking at the opening address of The Open Source CFD International Conference in London said: “IDAJ was a natural choice as a partner with its extensive wealth of experience in supplying and integrating CFD and related technologies. The culture and ethics of both companies are identical – focussed upon providing the best existing and emerging technologies with excellent customer service. We are looking forward to adding IDAJ to the network of ICON’s existing distributors and partners, which will ensure ICON’s continued leadership in the field of industrial support of open source CFD-based solving processes.”

 About IDAJ (www.idaj.co.jp)

IDAJ is an independent services and support operation with over 80 CFD engineers complementing their total staff count of 190. The organisation has numerous offices throughout Japan, China and staff and partners based in the Far East.

Beside CFD, IDAJ also provides distribution, technical support and engineering consulting service covering broad CAE domain including FEA, Optimization, and 1D simulation.

About ICON Technology & Process Consulting Limited (www.iconcfd.com)

ICON is a privately-owned CFD technology company formed in 1992. ICON’s strategy is as pertinent today as it was then – to provide high-quality independent advice and expertise in process, technology and services.

ICON has extensive experience in the use of proprietary software for CFD simulation and optimization, together with expertise in developing and supporting open source CFD technologies. ICON supports customers from a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, energy and processing sectors.

The company headquarters are in Windsor, UK with additional offices throughout Europe and the USA.

For further information please visit iconcfd.com/contact.

ICON, provider of independent technology and process engineering solutions, announced today the preliminary agenda for its upcoming Open Source CFD International Conference, to be held in London, UK on 29th & 30th October 2012.

The agenda is now available to download from opensourceCFD.com/conference2012 and features presentations from CFD specialists in industry and academia from 13 different nations. The agenda covers the current best practices and state-of-the-art in Open Source CFD and associated technologies, providing attendees with a comprehensive overview of the technology available.

Keynote Speakers include:

– Prof. E. Paterson, Virginia Tech
– Prof. K. Giannakoglou, NTUA

Visit opensourceCFD.com/conference2012 to register and for further information.

Register now !

We look forward to seeing you in London.

Windsor, UK, 5 October 2012

UK MOD (Ministry of Defence) scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have taken delivery of ICON FOAMpro, for their built environment simulation activities in civil defence and military threat assessments. Dstl use Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) to model various indoor and outdoor dispersal scenarios in public spaces and to develop protective measures.

Dstl commissioned ICON to develop further software functionalities to meet its specific modelling requirements and to further streamline the ease of setting up powerful simulations using the ICON FOAMpro CFD process. As the CFD calculations can be carried out using the open source solver within ICON FOAMpro, without the hindrance of solver licence restrictions, Dstl can maximise the number of simulations, fully utilising its considerable HPC hardware resources.

Tim Foat, Team Leader of the Fluid Dynamics and Indoor Dispersion Team at Dstl said “We are delighted to be using ICON FOAMpro in our simulation activities. The licence-free solver technology, combined with Icon’s support from their applications and development team, are ensuring a powerful, cost-effective use of resources at Dstl”.

David Green, Commercial Director at ICON, stated that: “We are pleased to be supporting Dstl with their specific scientific and military CFD-process requirements. ICON’s long term investments into its international workforce and in various CFD technology developments, has once again delivered high value-added, fully supported, industrial applications of open source CFD technology for its client”.

 About Dstl (www.dstl.gov.uk)

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory maximises the impact of science and technology (S&T) for the defence and security of the UK, supplying sensitive and specialist S&T services for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the wider government. Dstl is a trading fund of the MOD, run along commercial lines.

It is one of the principal government organisations dedicated to S&T in the defence and security field, with around 3,500 scientists, technologists and engineers at its three main sites: Porton Down, near Salisbury, Portsdown West, near Portsmouth, and Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks.

However, they start from the presumption that work should be completed by external suppliers unless there is a clear reason for it to be led by Dstl. At present, around sixty percent of the approximately £400 million MOD non-nuclear defence research programme, managed through Dstl, goes to industry and academia on successful delivery of work projects.

 About Icon Technology & Process Consulting Limited (www.iconcfd.com)

ICON is a privately-owned CFD technology company formed in 1992. ICON’s strategy is as pertinent today as it was then: to provide high-quality independent advice and expertise in process, technology and services.

ICON has extensive experience in the use of proprietary software for CFD simulation and optimization, together with expertise in developing and supporting open source CFD technologies. It supports customers from a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, energy and processing sectors.

The company is head-quarters are in Windsor, UK with further offices throughout Europe and the USA (Cincinnati, OH).

  About ICON FOAMpro Service

Open source solving and meshing tools offer customers a cost-effective and customisable solution to fulfil their CFD Simulation requirements. The limiting factor in adopting open source-based processes in industry is often the lack of technical support, quality assurance and a robust, easy-to-use process from meshing to post-processing. Through a long established subscription service, ICON FOAMpro customers enjoy first class CFD tools, including a purpose-built GUI, combined with industrial support, embedded within a professional environment.

For further information please visit iconcfd.com/contact.