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Fluid flow and heat transfer simulation software

A Nika product story

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Apr 11, 2006

Nika, the leading provider of easy to use fluid flow and heat transfer simulation software for engineers, has announced that it has become the latest PTC Platinum Partner

Nika, the leading provider of fluid flow and heat transfer simulation software for engineers, has announced that it has become the latest PTC Platinum Partner.

PTC, the Product Development Company, bestows Platinum Partner status to a select group of companies that offer highly integrated, complementary technologies for manufacturers who need to create winning products and gain a competitive edge in their markets.

The Nika product, EFD.Pro, is a fully integrated fluid flow and heat transfer simulation product for Pro/Engineer.

Its seamless interface enables users to create designs with Pro/Engineer and then immediately analyse and optimise them inside the Pro/Engineer environment.

The tight integration between the products combined with the associative nature of Pro/Engineer enable engineers to use the results to quickly modify and optimise their designs.

"Nika has been a successful member of our partner program since 2003" stated Dr Carsten A Hochmuth, director, partner programs at PTC.

"We greatly appreciate the continued support from Nika and look forward to working even more closely with them to build additional value for our joint customers".

"EFD.Pro has been adopted by many world-class companies using Pro/Engineer such as Fuji Photo Film Co , DAF Trucks and Siemens " said Roland Feldhinkel, Nika managing director.

"By working closely with PTC, we will continue to provide the best solution for fluid flow analysis within the Pro/Engineer environment and enable companies of all sizes to implement an effortless Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system".

EFD.Pro has been used for the development and optimisation of various products such as automotive parts, computer housings, switching units, electronic devices, HVAC systems, valves and regulators and medical equipment within a short time frame and with better quality.

EFD.Pro Overview.

EFD.Pro is based on the principles of Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD).

EFD is an advanced approach for creating fluid flow and heat transfer analysis software.

While relying on the same mathematical and physical foundation as traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) programmes, it removes the complexity of numerical/mathematical schemes from the user.

Featuring a seamless integration with Pro/Engineer, EFD.Pro uses the original Pro/Engineer parts and assemblies without requiring the user to model the flow domain separately.

Its graphical pre-processor guides the user step-by-step through the physical data definition process using the Pro/Engineer model.

EFD.Pro also features innovative technology such as automatic meshing, automatic detection of the fluid region and automatic laminar-turbulent modeling.

It offers a wide range of analysis capabilities such as compressible and incompressible liquids and gases, laminar and turbulent flows, heat transfer and species transport for steady-state and transient flow regimes as well as numerous other sophisticated physical models.

Its fully integrated graphical postprocessor offers comprehensive results visualisation and valuation capabilities with tight connectivity to MS Excel and MS Word using the original Pro/Engineer model.

To find out more about EFD.Pro or the next generation in fluid flow analysis, please visit the website.