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ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd. has formed a sales alliance with Dacolt to promote and support its CFD service, ICON FOAMpro in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. ICON FOAMpro provides first class open source-based CFD solver and meshing tools, combined with industrial support embedded in a professional environment.

As a result of this partnership, Dacolt, a CFD consulting company which specialised in Combustion Modelling, will promote and provide support of ICON FOAMpro for Benelux customers. Furthermore, it will carry out CFD consulting business using ICON FOAMpro. ICON will back up the service providing training resources and offer its expertise where needed.

David Green, Commercial Director at ICON, said: “We are delighted to be working with Dacolt. Our organisations share similar values in best practice and customer service, enabling us to offer customers in the Benelux a compelling proposition. We welcome partnerships like these to better meet the needs of our customers in the local markets.”

About Dacolt

Dacolt offers software and services for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modelling of industrial combustion applications, by providing innovative tools and expertise to support its customers in realising their fuel efficiency and pollutant emissions design goals.

ICON, editors of ICON FOAMpro and experts in Open Source CFD technology and Dacolt, editors of Tabkin and experts in combustion modelling with CFD, have collaborated in the preparation and presentation of a three day training course in Combustion Modelling using OpenFOAM^® technology.

The three day course covers the following topics:

Introduction to combustion modelling with CFD
Non pre-mixed combustion with reactingFoam solver
Pre-mixed combustion with XiFoam solver

An additional training day, An Introduction to OpenFOAM^®, can be added upon request. This training course can also be given on-site.

The next training course is scheduled for June 20-22 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. For more details and to register, visit our training page.

In addition to the ability to create face zones in the volume mesh from STL or NASTRAN surfaces, iconCFD Mesh is now capable of splitting up face zones into two-sided internal patches enabling the user to create baffles of the following types:

– Face zones (a one-sided set of internal faces)
– Internal coupled cyclic patches which can be used for internal jump boundary conditions
– Two zero-thickness uncoupled patches, allowing separate boundary conditions on each side

Surface normals of different baffle types (left: face zone; centre: internal cyclic patch; right: two patches)

As part of the development advanced methods for snapping and creating surface layers were introduced to iconCFD Mesh.

– Feature line snapping is now also enabled for face zones and other baffle types.
– Boundary layers do not collapse when intersecting face zones any more. Now the mesher grows the layers up the baffles (even if they are curved) and assigns the appropriate side faces to the baffle patch.
– Layer growth up non-planar surfaces has been implemented as well as an advanced treatment for layers growing up concave corners. Both these features also increase the quality of the boundary layers growing up inlet, outlet and symmetry patches.

Boundary layers (left: collapsing when intersecting face zones; centre: growing up baffles; right: growing up surfaces in concave corners)

Automatic meshing of baffle surfaces was implemented in iconCFD Mesh for the purpose of increasing the flexibility of face zone usage, directly creating internal jump and cyclic boundaries as well as zero thickness walls with each side on a separate patch, while increasing mesh quality and surface layer coverage.

Example application of internal cyclic patch: STL geometry and volume mesh of a simplified car cabin geometry with internal jump boundary (marked red)

For further details please follow this link to contact us.

The Open Source CFD International Conference 2012 to be held 18th/19th October 2012 in London, UK has issued a Call for Abstracts.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 300-500 words, including title and author contact information and affiliation.

Abstracts are invited for a broad range of topics and should aim to highlight validated methods and breakthrough technologies.

Works should demonstrate how adoption of open source CFD software is moving CAE process and business forward.
The following types of participation are all available at the event:

– Oral (Slides) Presentation + Written Paper;
– Oral (Slides) Presentation only;
– Poster Presentation + Written Paper;
– Poster Presentation only.

The paper submission deadline is 15 June 2012 and a submission form is provided at: OpenSourceCFD.com.

The 5th Open Source CFD International Conference 2011, organised by ICON, took place in Chantilly, France on the 3rd & 4th November. Delegates found out about the current best practices and state-of-the-art in Open Source CFD and associated technologies, attending two keynotes and choosing from 32 presentations, poster session, exhibition and discussion breaks.

The conference welcomed delegates to Chantilly (near Paris) to meet, listen and debate with attendees from academia and various industries including oil & gas, consumer products, automotive, motorsport, marine, process, energy, nuclear safety, industrial productivity solutions, consulting engineering, tobacco industry and glass manufacture. It gave plenty of opportunities for networking and was very well received as a valuable, stimulating and enjoyable event.

Keynotes from Volkswagen and Politecnico di Milano opened a two-day packed agenda with presentations showing innovative work in reacting, multiphase, environmental and compressible LES flows, acoustic analysis, flow in rotating machinery, CFD in Medicine and external aerodynamics.

Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Blume who won the ICON FOAMpro Design-an-Aircraft competition. Conference delegates were asked to define the optimal parameters for an aircraft with minimal drag using ICON FOAMpro’s built-in GUI. Second and third place winners were Jiri Furst (Czech Technical University in Prague) and Dr. Octavian Frederich (Volkswagen).

The conference proceedings and image gallery are now available to download at opensourceCFD.com/conference2011.

Further innovative work can be found in our Technology Gallery.

ICON would like to thank all delegates, presenters, exhibitors and sponsors for helping to make the conference such a great success. In particular, our thanks go to our principal sponsor Intel and other sponsors BETA CAE Systems, Clustervision, QLogic and SGI, together with exhibitors Fraunhofer SCAI, Distene, Bull and Genias Graphics.

We look forward to seeing you in London in November 2012.

ICON has scheduled an Introductory Programming Training based on OpenFOAM^® technology to be held in Maastricht, Netherlands on 16th – 18th November 2011. The training will be held at the Regus Centre Gegevens in the heart of Maastricht.

This training is an introduction to the OpenFOAM^® software structure. Trainees will be able to modify and create solvers or utilities and change some basic library components, such as turbulence models or boundary conditions. In general, the Programming Training is designed to enable the effective use of OpenFOAM^® technology in every-day engineering problems.

To register and for more information visit http://www.opensourcecfd.com/training.

OpenFOAM^® and OpenCFD^® are registered trade marks of ESI.
This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software.

ICON, the organiser of the Open Source CFD International Conference is pleased to announce that SGI will present at the 2011 event in Chantilly, France 4-5th November.

SGI recently acquired OpenCFD^® Ltd, the developer of OpenFOAM^® and their presentation will be entitled “Committed to OpenSource. Designed to Work Together”. To view the latest Agenda and to register visit www.opensourcecfd.com/conference2011.

OpenFOAM^® and OpenCFD^® are registered trade marks of ESI.

Windsor, September 2011

ICON is looking for experienced Sales Agents/Partners in the US to help continue it’s growth and build long term business relationships in the CFD market.

ICON seeks collaboration with partners to promote the ICON FOAMpro service throughout continental USA. Ideal partners would include resellers with CFD market experience and established CFD consultants.

About ICON FOAMpro Service

Open source solving and meshing tools offer customers a cost-effective 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.

ICON provides first class CFD tools (including a purpose-built GUI) combined with industrial support embedded in a professional environment to meet these requirements via its service ICON FOAMpro.

ICON FOAMpro is part of the Intel^® Cluster Ready Program. For more information please contact us or visit iconCFD.com/foampro.

About ICON

ICON was established as a private limited company in the UK in 1992, originally a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) services provider using emerging proprietary CFD software tools. The evolution of the company continues today with the same philosophy that it was founded upon: to maximise value for customers by providing high-quality independent advice and expertise in CFD methodologies and technologies that have the most impact on product or process design.

Visit www.iconCFD.com for more details.

Interested?
Get in touch via our contact form or alternatively via telephone on +44 1753 751400.

David Green
Commercial Director
Icon Technology & Process Consulting Limited

ICON UK
Berkshire House, Thames Side
Windsor SL4 1QN
United Kingdom

ICON USA
4555 Lake Forest Drive, Suite 650
Cincinnati, OH 45242
USA

ICON see the acquisition as another sign to reinforce the widely accepted view that open source CFD technology and related services are now an integral and valuable part of industrial engineering simulation.

It is too early to say how the acquisition of OpenCFD by SGI and the fee-based offering SGI^® OpenFOAM^® will be perceived by the CFD community. However, ICON will remain completely committed to serving our client’s interests and working closely with hardware, software and channel partners as we have done for the past 20 years.

We continue to welcome collaboration that takes CFD forward with our principal aim to ensure the delivery of high quality CFD process to our rapidly growing client base. We remain a preferred independent CFD solutions provider to industry, developing and supporting CFD process based upon both open and proprietary technologies.

*OpenFOAM^® and OpenCFD^® are registered trade marks of ESI.

Windsor, August 2011

ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd. has formed a sales alliance with Phitec Ingegneria to promote and support its CFD service, ICON FOAMpro in Italy. ICON FOAMpro provides first class open source CFD tools combined with industrial support embedded in a professional environment.

As a result of this partnership, Phitec Ingegneria, a CFD consulting company, will promote and provide support of ICON FOAMpro for Italian customers. Furthermore, it will carry out CFD consulting business using ICON FOAMpro. ICON will back up the service providing training resources and offer its expertise where needed.

David Green, commercial director at ICON, said: “We are delighted to be working with Phitec Ingegneria. Our organisations share similar values in best practice and customer service, enabling us to offer customers in Italy a compelling proposition. We welcome partnerships like these to better meet the needs of our customers in the local markets.”

About Phitec Ingegneria

Phitec Ingegneria is a mechanical engineering company, established in Turin in 2002, with proven expertise in the virtual simulation field. They offer consulting services to the main Italian OEM’s in three areas: virtual prototyping including CFD, crash/safety simulations and technical software development.