Icon is pleased to extend its CFD services offering to industry and organisations with the addition of ICON FOAMpro service. This subscription-based service utilises open source CFD technology, coupled with an ease-of-use GUI and high quality telephone and email support.
For further details please refer to our ICON FOAMpro website section.
ICON organized the 2009 Open Source CFD International Conference in Barcelona that brought together users, developers, academics and industry managers.
Key note addresses were provided by Will Schroeder of Kitware Inc. who discussed Scientific Computing with Open-Source Software, Dr. Moni Islam of AUDI AG who addressed the Application of OpenFOAM® Technology for Vehicle Aerodynamics Development and sharing the platform was ICON who presented its ICON FOAMpro: An Open Source CFD Support Service.
Full proceedings are available here.
The Conference was aimed at:
– Existing open source CFD software e.g. OpenFOAM® users
– CFD Engineers seeking to investigate open source technology
– Industry Managers and IT Implementers
– Academia
– Technology Consultants
ICON and Volkswagen Group, Europe’s largest automaker, are pleased to announce the recent adoption of AeroFOAM, a methodology for performing predictive CFD simulations which is supported and developed by the inependent CFD service provider ICON.
The AeroFOAM process is the result of several years of collaboration which have refined a validated industrial process to enable cost-effective, scalable virtual design for Aerodynamics, Under-Hood Thermal Management and Vehicle Climate Control. A key strength of the solution is that it combines Icon’s CFD experience in supporting leading OEMs and suppliers, with a user interface which incorporates client-specific processes enveloping the open source software (OpenFOAM®). The primary Volkswagen brands adopting the AeroFOAM process are Audi, Volkswagen and SEAT.
Audi, Volkswagen and SEAT estimate that “the technical and business benefits delivered by the AeroFOAM process from ICON are significant” when speaking of ICON’s engineering and technical support operation combined with the rapid, customisable aspects of the AeroFOAM process and the financial benefits of using an open source solver. The Volkswagen Group “expects significant progress in their aerodynamics and aeroacoustics development process through the use of OpenFOAM® CFD technology“.
After the signing of a long term framework agreement between the comanies, Simon Weston, General Manager at ICON (London, UK) commented that “ICON are very pleased to support the Volkswagen Group with a fresh approach to CFD simulation processes. The Volkswagen Group has demonstrated great vision in supporting new innovation“.
About Volkswagen: The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. In 2007, the Group increased the number of vehicles delivered to customers to 6.189 million (2006: 5.734 million), corresponding to a 9.8 percent share of the world passenger car market.
The Group operates 48 production plants in thirteen European countries and a further six countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. Around the world, more than 329,000 employees produce almost 25,400 vehicles or are involved in vehicle-related services each working day. The Volkswagen Group sells its vehicles in more than 150 countries. The Group is made up of eight brands from six European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
E. de Villiers and K. Laakkonen
OpenFOAM® User Day
Finland, 11th February 2009
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M. Islam, F. Decker, E. de Villiers, A. Jackson, J. Gines, T. Grahs, A. Gitt-Gehrke and J. Comas
SAE World Congress
USA, 20th-23rd April 2009
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F. Campos
OpenFOAM® Workshop
Canada, 1st-4th June 2009
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F. Campos, A. Jackson and E. de Villiers
NAFEMS Worlds Congress
Greece, 19th June 2009
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F. Campos, D. Sykes, J. Ferguson
3rd Ansa & Beta International Conference
Greece, 9th-11th September 2009
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ICON organized the 2008 conference which brought together users, developers, academics and industry managers. More than 120 delegates from over 16 countries assembled to hear presentations and exchange views. Topics discussed ranged from multi-phase flow to industrial optimisation. We look forward to another diverse mix of audience and presentations at the 2009 event.
The Conference was aimed at:
– Existing open source CFD software e.g. OpenFOAM® users
– CFD Engineers seeking to investigate open source technology
– Industry Managers and IT Implementers
– Academia
– Technology Consultants
Amongst the industrial and academic contributors were key notes from Henry Weller from OpenCFD Ltd. discussing the Further Development of OpenFOAM, Jan Wildeboer of Red Hat who described Building Communities based on Open Standards and Open Source at Red Hat, alongside ICON who showed their FOAMpro GUI in their presentation on Open Source CFD in Practice – A Path to Industrial Scale Applications.
Full proceedings are available here.
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